| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1160 | A remeaning task | Redefine an existing word or two-word term beginning with P through Z. | H |
| 959 | Out of network | Move a current or former TV program (or type of programming) to a different network and explain what would change. | H |
| 652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | H H H |
| 585 | It's Parody Time | Offer, in the holiday spirit of goodwill, some advice--as constructive and unifying as Loserly suggestions always are--to our nation's leaders (or the loyal opposition) as we prepare for the next four years. This advice will be set to the tune of some winter holiday song, either religious or secular. | H |
| 582 | Perversery Rhymes | Update a nursery rhyme or children's song with an edgier text. | 1 |
| 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | H H |
| 571 | A Tour de Fours | Create and define a word that includes T, H, E, and S in any order. The letters must appear consecutively. | H H |
| 564 | Redefine Print | Redefine any word from the dictionary. | H |
| 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | W |
| 556 | So Zoo Us | Combine any two kinds of animals, give its name and describe it. | H H |
| 548 | Inklings | Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies. | H |
| 544 | You Gotta Have Heart | Write us some valentine sentiments from one particular person (real or fictional) to another. | H |
| 543 | Read Our Leaps | Fill any readers of The Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2032, on: (a) the day's lead news story; (b) the highest-flying company and its business; (c) the best-selling self-help book; and/or (d) the day's winning Style Invitational entry. | H |
| 538 | Try, Try Again | Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. | H |
| 530 | Tri Harder | Take any word, alter it in three ways--by adding a letter, by subtracting a letter and by changing a letter--and redefine all three new words. | H |
| 528 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
| 527 | Rite of First Defusal | Come up with witty or bizarre things to say to defuse the tension in awkward moments. | W |
| 522 | Being There | Set the agenda for a flash mob, one of those existential, Web-arranged, sudden, pointless, instantaneous but brief gatherings of people at odd places, to do odd things. | H |
| 518 | Say, Kids, What Time Is It? | Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------. | H 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. | T |
| 508 | Letter Rip | Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word. | H H |
| 503 | Doody and Muldoon | Write poetry that out-Muldoons Paul Muldoon, the Princeton professor who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Your poem must be a single quatrain, containing at least one rhyme and references to at least two body parts and one geographic name. | H |
| 498 | Unamazing But True! | Submit a true fact that is of absolutely no use, but interesting in a weirdly Invitationalist way. | H |
| 497 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
| 491 | Hirschfeld Follies | Try to figure out which celebrities Bob Staake is trying to draw in imitation of Al Hirschfeld. | H |
| 480 | In No Uncertain Terminations | Come up with a way to stop any unwanted overture in its tracks. | H |
| 479 | Invest Case Scenario | Suggest new companies in which it might be unwise to invest. | H |
| 478 | Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | H |
| 472 | Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | H |
| 467 | Get Your But in Here | Produce a line that fits this structure: (Real thing based upon current events) is (word or phrase suggesting some quality) but (other word or phrase suggesting a dissimilar or incompatible quality), like (funny analogy). | L H |
| 460 | Pompous Assets | Come up with the first paragraph of a review of a real book or movie, past or present, that is narcissistic, pretentious, and self-aggrandizing. | 3 |
| 456 | A Bad-Ask Contest | You are still on Jeopardy!, and you still have to supply questions to the provided answers, but the winners will be the least funny answers. | W H H |
| 452 | Russellmania! | (1) Design one or more steps for a 12-step program for the recovering Invitationalaholic; (2) Propose a devious method by which we might lure Russell Beland back. | H |
| 451 | Make Your Pix | Which two of the provided cartoons are related, and how? | H |
| 450 | Blues It or Lose It | Write the first verse of a blues song expressing some Washington area woe. | 1 |
| 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 |
| 445 | Another Round of Bierce | Add a few entries to Ambrose Bierce's famous "Devil's Dictionary. | H |
| 444 | Advice Squad | Take any letter from today's advice columns and answer it in the voice of someone famous, living or dead. | H |
| 441 | Spit the Difference | Take any two nouns that appear on the front page of today's Washington Post and explain how the nouns differ from each other. | H |
| 440 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | H H |
| 437 | The Telegraph Poll | Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. | H H |
| 430 | OMB Directive No. 2 | Revisit any contest The Style Invitational has ever run, and rewrite our tawdry past by proposing a new first-prize winner serious and/or decorous enough to please the Ombudsman. | H |
| 429 | Shark Instruments | Tell us what would be a sign that any current institution--TV show, newspaper feature, magazine, business, etc.--has jumped the shark. | H |
| 427 | Skinned | Come up with events that have a smaller chance of happening than the Redskins winning the Super Bowl. | H |
| 419 | Don't Spare the Rodney | Come up with indications that one might not be getting no respect. | H 1 |
| 418 | Xtreme Invitational | Come up with signs you are overdoing it any in any of the provided categories. | H |
| 416 | Diff'rent Jokes | Describe how things might have been different if a famous person, living or dead, had had one of the provided conditions. | H |
| 410 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 402 | Spitting the Difference | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H H 2 |