| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1596 | History for the tl;dr Crowd | Sum up an event for the 21st-century reader in a rhyming couplet. | H |
| 1419 | Send us the bill -- 'joint legislation' | Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. | 2 |
| 1222 | Foaling around | Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both of them. | H |
| 1028 | Joint Legislation | Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation". | H |
| 1020 | Colt following | Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal. | H H H H 3 |
| 1018 | Reologisms | Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time. | H |
| 1016 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents. | W H H H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H |
| 969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | H |
| 965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | H H |
| 923 | Chemical Wordfare | Create a new chemical element or other chemical term. | H H |
| 914 | Foaling around | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | H H |
| 871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | M 2 |
| 869 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H |
| 863 | It's Post time | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | H H H |
| 861 | It's incumbent upon us | Combine the names of two or more freshman members of Congress to create "joint legislation." This week's pool of legislators includes only those who were elected to their seats before 1994, the first year we ran the freshman contest. | I H H 4 |
| 814 | There Will Be Bloodline | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name their foal. | H H H H |
| 813 | Aw, Shocks | Give us a humorous example of the "shocking -- not. | M H |
| 810 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | H H 4 |
| 763 | Another Time Around the Track | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. | H H H H H |
| 759 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the 100 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | H H |
| 732 | The Chain Gang | Supply a chain of 25 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "George W. Bush. | P |
| 731 | Doo Process | Describe for us a wildly inefficient and ridiculous way to produce or prepare an ordinary dish or beverage. | I |
| 723 | Name Your Poison | Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. | H H H |
| 720 | The Course of Humor Events | Sum up a historical event in a two-line rhyme or other clever and pithy epigram. | M H 2 |
| 719 | We Har the World | Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States. | H |
| 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | L |
| 716 | The Hard Spell | Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected from this year's National Spelling Bee. | 3 |
| 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | H |
| 712 | Another Time Around the Track | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in the results of Week 708, and name THEIR foal. | H |
| 711 | Join Now! | Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the April 29 or May 6 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound. | H H |
| 709 | A Return Engagement | Come up with some novel change to the tax code: a tax on something ought to be taxed, a credit for something that should be rewarded, what the $3 should go to instead of presidential campaigns, etc. | M H H 4 |
| 708 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | W H H H H H H H |
| 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | M H H H |
| 700 | Stump Us | Come up with someone's slogan for the 2008 presidential campaign. | M H H |
| 699 | Our Greatest Hit | Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H H |
| 697 | We Beg You To Differ | Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar. | H |
| 696 | Send Us the Bill | Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together. | H |
| 695 | Dead Letters | Write a poem about someone who died in 2006. | H H |
| 670 | A Test of Character | Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar. | P L H H |
| 669 | Huddled Messes | Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal). | I |
| 668 | Cut From the Chase | Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression. | P |
| 666 | Bedevil Us | Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days. | M I |
| 665 | Your One-in-a-Million | Coin the millionth word in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion. | H |
| 663 | Worth at Least a Dozen Words | Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. | H |
| 662 | How Low Will You Go? | Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. | M H |
| 661 | Name Any Good Movies Lately? | Give us a funny new title for an existing movie. | H H |
| 660 | Foaling Down: The Next Generation | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. | H H H H |
| 659 | Tell Us a Fib | Compose a six-line poem with the following number of syllables per line: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It must be about a person or topic currently in the news, and two successive lines must rhyme. | H H H |
| 656 | It's Post Time | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the more than 400 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their hypothetical foal. The foal's name cannot exceed 18 characters and spaces combined. | W H H H H H H H H H |
| 655 | Laughing Inside | Take any article appearing in The Washington Post or online on washingtonpost.com from today through April 3 -- the more serious and/or mundane its headline, the better -- and write a funny poem or other passage using only words that appear in that article. | M |
| 643 | The Post's Mortems | Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005. | P 4 |
| 631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | H H |
| 630 | Hyphen the Terrible | Combine the beginning and end of any two multisyllabic words in this week's Invitational, and then define the compound. | H |
| 620 | Keep the Empress Employed | Suggest some original, creative ways that The Post could increase its circulation. | T I H H H |
| 619 | WordCount Us In | Write a poem of no more than four lines containing four or more consecutive words on the WordCount list. They must occur in the sentence in the order they appear on the list. | H |
| 618 | Of D.C. I Sing | Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. | H H H |
| 617 | Best the Best | Write something about any famous personage that uses only the letters in his or her name. | H H H |
| 615 | Airy Persiflage | Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. | T |
| 614 | In-Stock Characters | Pitch us an idea for a summer movie featuring two or more of the provided characters. | H |
| 613 | Tour de Fours II | Create and define a word that includes, consecutively, E, R, A and N. in any order. | T H H H |
| 612 | Oh, and One More Thing | What was the thing that didn't make the cut on any list? | L |
| 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | L H |
| 610 | MASH | Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid. | H H |
| 609 | A2D2 | Give us some funny "corrections" to brighten up Page A2. | L 4 |
| 608 | Comeback Next Week | Come up with original snide retorts to various rude questions or comments. | H H H |
| 605 | Truly Stupendous Ideas | Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different. | W H H H H |
| 604 | Fun for the Roses | Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. The name of the foal must be no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 602 | Take a Letter -- Again | Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 600 | Top of the Inking | Tell us some ways the District of Columbia will change now that we have the Nationals. | H |
| 594 | History Loves Company | Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story. | H H A |
| 591 | Dead Letters | Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year. | H H 2 |
| 590 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with a bill sponsored by any combination of the newly elected members of Congress and explain the purpose of the bill. | H H |
| 533 | Breed Apart | Mate the clones of any two famous real people, living or dead--a male and a female, please--and hypothesize what traits or skills their offspring might have. | 4 |
| 489 | Combo, First Blood | Combine two people whose names contain a common element, as in the examples above. Then describe the person, or provide a quote he or she might have uttered. | 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. | W H H H H |
| 379 | Rather Unusual | Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses. | 5 |
| 378 | Bill Us Now | Come up with a bill sponsored by any of the newly elected U.S. senators and representatives, and explain the purpose of the bill. | 4 |
| 376 | Apply Yourself | Supply bad openings to college application biographies. | H |
| 375 | Show Us Up | Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show. | H H 4 |
| 359 | It's No Party | Come up with a new political party and its main political tenet. | H H H |
| 312 | BOOKS AND BOOKS | Combine any two works of literature--no movies or TV--into one, give its title and describe it in a brief, appealing blurb that might appear in Publishers' Weekly. | H |
| 305 | ASK BACKWARDS CMXVI2 | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 281 | CALCULATE THE ODDS | Tell us which of the two provided items does not belong with the other two, and why. | H |