| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1529 | Hello, Dall-E! | Our new contest partners you and a machine. | H |
| 1486 | No can do: Signs of incompetence | Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field. | H |
| 801 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. | H |
| 768 | The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious | Come up with fictitious movie trivia. | H |
| 721 | Know Your Market | For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. | H |
| 652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | H |
| 637 | Full Steam Ahead | Write a steamy passage of a novel that's ostensibly by some well-known person who isn't a novelist. | H |
| 616 | Picture This, Kids | Supply title and one-sentence synopsis for Bob Staake new kids' project, incorporating any of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | H |
| 598 | Site Gags | Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution. | I |
| 586 | God's Will (and Won't) | Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted us to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----. | H H |
| 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | H H |
| 561 | Deform of a Question | Take any sentence appearing in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com today through June 14, and make up a question to which the sentence could be an answer. | W |
| 560 | The 97.5-Meter Dash | Suggest some time- and cost-saving measures so the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens will open on time. | W |
| 548 | Inklings | Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies. | H H |
| 534 | The Feminine Touch | Propose how any male-dominated occupation or institution would change if it suddenly became female-dominated. | H |
| 532 | Short Pans | Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. | H H |
| 523 | Hard to Overstate | Propose ways to make modern life just a little bit harder than it needs to be. | H H |
| 521 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any hyphenated word in today's Washington Post (or Tuesday's USA Today) and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and define the new word it produces. | H |
| 517 | Insert Joke Here | Slip a single bogus sentence into next year's State of the Union address, figuring the Prez will probably just read it right off the teleprompter. | H |
| 515 | A Cellebration of Tasteful Living | Come up with ways that Martha Stewart can prettify and improve her new prison surroundings using only her skills, her impeccable taste and those resources available to her. | H |
| 508 | Letter Rip | Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word. | H H |
| 507 | Crocktails | Come up with a drink named for something or someone associated with Washington and describe the drink. | H |
| 506 | The Battle of All Mottoes | Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc. | 2 |
| 501 | Questionable Sentences | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post and make it the answer to a question. | H |
| 500 | Ergo-Nomics | Create a sillygism--a syllogism that doesn't quite work. | 2 |
| 487 | Eee! Rotica | Come with a passage in a novel that ineptly describes hanky-panky. | W |
| 484 | Manufracturing | Take any product and explain how it would be different if it were designed by a different existing company. | H |
| 482 | Inspect Our Gadgets | What are these gadgets? What do they do? | 4 |
| 478 | Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | H H H |
| 473 | Offensive Line | Find what's offensive in any of the provided cartoons, and explain. | H |
| 472 | Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | H |
| 465 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any word or word combination in today's Post that is broken by a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word from the same story, and define the new word that is formed. | H H H |
| 464 | Cursive Writing | Come up with a new curse for this millennium. | H |
| 454 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 449 | Cut and Pastiche | Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words. | H |
| 448 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races this year and propose a name for their foal. No name may exceed 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 440 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | H |
| 439 | No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | 4 |