WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1416 |
The Year in Redo, Part 2 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412. |
H |
1415 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1360 through 1387, except for Weeks 1361-1363. |
H |
1413 |
We're finna give you some new words |
Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of the provided terms. The terms must be used as they're defined in the new m-w.com listing. |
H |
1410 |
Legends of the fall -- more fictoids |
Tell us some bogus trivia about autumn, or things that happen (or have happened) in autumn. |
H |
1407 |
Your ad space (or space ad) here |
Come up with an idea for promoting some commercial product or service (a) in space, (b) in a prison, (c) at a kindergarten, (d) by a football team or (e) in the White House. |
H |
1406 |
The news could be verse |
Write a poem based on a recent news article, in which the lines' first letters spell out the title or subject of the poem. |
H |
1403 |
Who was that masked man? |
Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now. |
H |
1402 |
2020: Metaphors for a bleep year |
Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it. |
H |
1401 |
How hai? A joke-haiku contest |
Write a joke (roughly) in the "It's so xxx" genre as a haiku. |
H |
1400 |
Back on track with our classic 'foal' contest |
"Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2020 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously reflect the parents' names. |
H H |
1399 |
The lie-zy days of summer |
Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer. |
H |
1398 |
This is the year that is |
Describe the year 2020 in a novel, colorful metaphor or simile. You may also offer an original graphic. |
H |
1397 |
Trope springs eternal |
Use any of the four provided standard settings -- (a) desert island, (b) bartender at a bar, (c) desert, (d) psychiatrist next to a couch -- and describe a cartoon that includes your choice of characters, along with a caption. |
H |
1395 |
Add nauseam: A plus-one contest |
Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional |
H |
1393 |
Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams |
Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. |
H |
1391 |
No-covid zone -- a neologism contest |
Coin a new word or phrase that lacks C, O, V, I and D and describe it. |
H H |
1390 |
'Same difference' for a new time |
Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. |
H |
1389 |
TankaWanka 4: Haiku plus tu |
Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. |
H H H |
1387 |
Movie clips -- drop letters from the middle of a title |
Delete one or more letters (they must be consecutive) from the middle of a movie title, and describe the resulting new movie. |
H H |
1384 |
Of course there are stupid questions! |
Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation. |
H |
1383 |
Questionable Journalism |
Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer. |
3 H H |
1381 |
Let's be equinoxious with fictoids about spring |
Tell us some untrue trivia about springtime or things that happen or happened in the spring. |
3 |
1380 |
Both sides now |
Delete one or more letters (in a row) from a word or brief phrase to find another word, and define it. |
H |
1379 |
Your wish: A pun -- a star |
Tell a joke, in your choice of form, whose punchline is a pun on a song title or lyric. |
H |
1377 |
Make your own March Madness |
Think of some sport, game, art project or other activity that you can conjure up using various items that you might find around the house. |
2 H |
1376 |
Get thee to a funnery |
Add a character (or more) to a Shakespeare play and supply some resulting dialogue. |
H H |
1375 |
Mess With Our Heads |
Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. |
H H H |
1373 |
Prime time for some Amazon reviews |
Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. |
4 H |
1372 |
Trash talking, 1880-style |
Write a quatrain or -- heck -- two of Balliol rhyme about some person. |
H |
1370 |
What's in a name? |
Write something about a well-known person, real or fictional, using only the letters in that person's name. |
H |
1369 |
Shoot us some oops |
Tell us a concise original joke that revolves around a typo or misheard word. |
H |
1368 |
Picture This -- cartoon captions |
Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. |
H W |
1367 |
Pick me up at work, okay? |
Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. |
H |
1366 |
Tour de Fours XVI -- It's the LIAR club |
Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block L-I-A-R and describe it. |
H |
1364 |
Clue us in |
Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
4 H H |
1362 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311. |
H |
1361 |
2020 vision -- the year in preview |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020. |
H |
1359 |
Back up in the air (quotes) |
Write a sentence or two and highlight an "air quote" that spans two or more words (and two sentences if you like). |
3 H H H L L |
1358 |
What to your wondering eyes will appear? |
Write a humorous passage -- a "quote", an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (a.k.a "The Night Before Christmas"). |
4 |
1355 |
The inside word |
Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give the word a new meaning or description. |
H H |
1354 |
As the Word turns 5: Taking our vowels |
"Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. |
W |
1353 |
What's playing at the retroplex |
Change a movie title to its "opposite" by reversing one or more words; then describe the new movie. |
H |
1352 |
Hee-rotica -- Steamy prose for unsteamy life |
Write a short steamy scene (100 words would be considered long) about a non-steamy event. |
H |
1351 |
What concept will you be for Halloween? |
Give us a creative, clever idea for a timely Halloween costume (for one or more people) or an idea for a party or other activity. You may even send us a photo of an actual new costume you've created this year. |
4 |
1349 |
Revise and extend these remarks |
Go to congress.gov/congressional-record and click on the PDF for any day's Congressional Record. Choose any sentence (or substantial part of one) and write a question that it could answer. |
2 H W |
1348 |
Same difference |
Explain humorously how any two or more of the provided items are alike, different or otherwise connected. |
H |
1347 |
Reologisms |
Write a clever, funny definition for any of the provided Loser-concocted words and phrases, and/or show they'd be used. |
H |
1346 |
AZ if -- balancing acts |
Think of a new word or two-word phrase that begins and ends -- either way -- with one of the provided "alphabetically balanced" pairs. |
H H H |
1345 |
The confaketionary -- food fictoids |
Tell us some comically false "fact" about food, drink or dining. |
H H |
1344 |
Well, that's just great -- It’s Limerixicon XVI |
Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "gr-". |
H |
1342 |
MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs. |
Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc. |
H H |
1341 |
Portmanteautapping from E to R |
Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it. |
H |
1339 |
Songs for a modern error |
Write humorous lyrics about some modern woe, set to a familiar tune. |
H |
1338 |
Picture This -- cartoon captions |
Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. |
H |
1337 |
Lidder me this: anagram riddles |
Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names. |
H |
1335 |
Put it in bee-verse! Or . . . |
Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the provided words, used in Round 9 or later of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words. |
H |
1334 |
Mull 'er over: A search for collision |
Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, in a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it. |
H |
1333 |
Check your (homo)phones |
Invent a homophone--a word that sounds the same as an existing word but is spelled differently--and define it. |
H |
1331 |
Paste Imperfect |
Choose a headline or sentence from The Post or another publication, print or online, dated May 9-20, 2019. Then change that headline or other text by: A. Deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it (put brackets around the deleted text); B. Adding up to 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad (write the additions in capital letters); or C. Both A and B, as long as the added text goes at the end of your headline or sentence. |
H |
1329 |
Shakespeare + Thee: Tailgaters |
Select any line from a work by Shakespeare (poetry or prose) and pair it with your own line to create a humorous rhyming couplet. |
2 |
1328 |
Hooked on 'classic': a do-over |
Summarize a book or play by any author, or retell a scene (or even a moment) from one, in the style of some other person. |
H |
1327 |
Mess with our (or anyone's) heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle. |
H H |
1323 |
Selected shortened subjects |
Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie. |
H |