| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1501 | Try a little 'kindness' | Tell about an “act of kindness” that you or someone else does that, well, won’t be appreciated. | 2 |
| 1482 | The Tile Invitational IX | Rearrange the letters of any of the letter sets provided to create a new term, then define or describe; you may use all seven letters, but also just six or five. | H |
| 1303 | Neologisms to di- for | Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term. | H |
| 1298 | It's IGH time for 3-word phrases | Make up some entity that might take a three-letter abbreviation of GHI, HGI, GGG, GHH, etc., and then humorously describe it. | L |
| 1248 | C'mon, fess up! | Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding. | H |
| 1233 | Not | The Loser Community gets a week off (actually two) from writing contest entries and will have to find something else to do during staff meetings, sermons, romantic breakups, etc. | H |
| 1226 | Colt following: The 'grandfoals' | Breed" any two of the 61 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents names. | H H |
| 1162 | An 8-year Re-Onion | Write a fictional Onion-type headline. | H |
| 1140 | You're giving us a bad name | Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for. | H |
| 1082 | Band on the pun | Alter the name of a music group or performer slightly -- not necessarily by just one letter, but enough so it's obvious what the original is -- and describe it in some way. | H |
| 1059 | With parens like these . . . | Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way. | 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. | H |
| 953 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post. | 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 |
| 904 | We move on back | Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word. | H |
| 886 | Look both ways | Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it. | H |
| 883 | Same difference | Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other. | 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 |
| 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. | H |
| 854 | What's not to liken? | Produce one or more similes in any of the following categories. | H |
| 841 | Food for naught | Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result. | H |
| 837 | Strip Search | Combine two comic strips that appear in The Washington Post or at washingtonpost.com/comics and describe the results. | 3 |
| 817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | H |
| 814 | There Will Be Bloodline | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name their foal. | H |
| 805 | Brand Eccchs | Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). | H H |
| 800 | Compairison | Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result. | H |