| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1607 | Funny, Init? | Compare two people who have the same initials. | H |
| 1466 | Be invitationally correct | Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer. | H |
| 877 | Quipped from the headlines | Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. | H |
| 871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | H |
| 841 | Food for naught | Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result. | H |
| 830 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H 2 |
| 826 | The Inside Word | Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word. | H |
| 812 | Rx-Related Humor | Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact. | H |
| 799 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together. | H |
| 796 | Sincerest Flattery | Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote. | H |
| 785 | The Ballad Box | Write a short, humorous song somehow relating to the presidential campaign, set to a familiar tune. | H |
| 784 | Words to The Wiseacres | Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. | H |
| 767 | Questionable Journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer. | H |
| 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | H |
| 739 | Lies, All Lies | Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure. | H |
| 733 | Just Drop It, Okay? | Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it. | H |
| 731 | Doo Process | Describe for us a wildly inefficient and ridiculous way to produce or prepare an ordinary dish or beverage. | H |
| 725 | Beggars For Description | Describe, without being boring, a cartoon to fit any of the provided captions. | 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 |
| 706 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. | 4 |
| 702 | Unreal Facts | Come up with a comically false factoid. | 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 |
| 690 | Funnies: How Time Flies | Pull Billy of "The Family Circus" -- or any of his comic strip neighbors in The Washington Post -- out of his time warp to a different age, era or place, and provide a short storyline or dialogue or caption. | 4 |
| 675 | Cut Us Some Slack | Come up with humorous ways to be lazy. | 3 |
| 650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. | 4 |
| 649 | Across the Wide What? | Give us some Virginia-appropriate lyrics for "Shenandoah. | H |
| 629 | Odd Couplings | Marry or otherwise combine famous names and supply the result. | H |
| 628 | You Gotta Have Connections | Choose any two or more items from the provided truly random list and describe how they are alike or different. | H |
| 621 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer. | H |
| 618 | Of D.C. I Sing | Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. | H |
| 609 | A2D2 | Give us some funny "corrections" to brighten up Page A2. | 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. | 4 |
| 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 4 |
| 553 | Picture This | Tell us what's going on in one or more of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 523 | Hard to Overstate | Propose ways to make modern life just a little bit harder than it needs to be. | H |
| 479 | Invest Case Scenario | Suggest new companies in which it might be unwise to invest. | H |