| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1150 | A deviant character | Change the name of person or animal -- real or fictional -- by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting one letter for another; or switching the positions of two nearby letters, and describing the results. | H |
| 1125 | The song remains the sa | Supply a real song title that has the end or beginning -- or, what the heck, both -- chopped off and describe it. | H |
| 1043 | Rechanneling celebrity | Describe a TV reality show featuring a celebrity pursuing some unlikely endeavor. | H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H |
| 849 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it. | H |
| 760 | Whacksy Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | H |
| 756 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | 2 |
| 755 | Take Another 'Whack | Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase. | W |
| 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | I |
| 695 | Dead Letters | Write a poem about someone who died in 2006. | H H |
| 694 | Hopelessly Ever After | Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing. | H |
| 693 | Everything Being Sequel | Give a brief scenario for the sequel to a well-known movie. | H |
| 688 | Making Short Work | Write a humorous six-word story. | W |
| 687 | What Were They Thinking? | Tell us (A) What someone might say in some situation, and (B) what that person was actually thinking when he said A. | H |
| 586 | God's Will (and Won't) | Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted us to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----. | H |
| 541 | Celled Up the River | Give us a delicious scenario, in which a cellphone yakker's yakking could be taken profitably out of context. | H |
| 488 | No Rest for the Query | Come up with a vexing, funny question about life. | 5 |
| 483 | Obitter Fate | Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead. | H |
| 481 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym of any existing word, and define. The new word must be spelled in such a way that is obviously pronounced identically to the original word. | W |
| 423 | Roling With Laughter | Take a character from one movie, use him or her to replace a character in a second movie, and then explain how this change would affect the second movie. | H |
| 381 | Idiom Savant | Take any well-known idiom, or expression, and invent an interesting derivation for it. | H |
| 377 | Week MMDCXLIV | Provide a headline (and, if necessary, the first line of the text) for any article that will appear in The Washington Post on this day in the year 2050. | H H |
| 376 | Apply Yourself | Supply bad openings to college application biographies. | H |
| 374 | Bill Us Later | Take a well-known expression and update it for the new millennium. | H H |
| 188 | BLANKETY BLANKS | Complete any of the above sentences, substituting your own phrases for the well-known omitted words. | H |