| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1636/118 | Clue Us In | We give you a partly filled-in crossword; you give us some words and funny clues. | H H H H |
| 1632/114 | EGOD! | Coin a word including the letter block DOGE | H |
| 1630/112 | Be Mister Language Person | Dave Barry is back with his own Substack, and here's a chance to remind him how to do this English-advice bit. | H H |
| 1618/100 | Week 100! | ...which we celebrate with a centennial contest | H |
| 1617/99 | Mess With Our Heads | Look at a headline and see a funnier meaning. | H H |
| 1610/92 | Wryku | Write a haiku about something in the news. | H |
| 1609/91 | Saved! | Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times | H |
| 1608/90 | Stick It | An election bumper sticker contest | H 2 |
| 1607/89 | Funny, Init? | Compare two people who have the same initials. | W H H H |
| 1604/86 | Call Your Dog | Give us creative names for various pets | H H H |
| 1601/83 | Stop, Hey, What's That Sound? | Tell us what these noise-words mean. | H |
| 1600/82 | Taylorgaters | Take a line from a 'Tortured Poets' lyric and rhyme it with one of your own. | H |
| 1599/81 | Picture This | It's our caption contest. | H |
| 1596/78 | History for the tl;dr Crowd | Sum up an event for the 21st-century reader in a rhyming couplet. | H |
| 1587/69 | The Trite Stuff | Replace some well-worn phrases with better ones. | H H |
| 1585/67 | Bring Up the Rear | Move the last letter of a word to the front. | H |
| 1580/62 | Hi, Anxiety! | Tell us some funny ways to stress yourself out. | 4 |
| 1579/61 | Captions Courageous | Write a description for any of six photos | H H |
| 1575/57 | The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers | Give us an idea for a bad book or movie. | H |
| 1561/43 | Let It Be a Lesson to Us | Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc. | H |
| 1560/42 | The 'Hole Story | Write us a funny 'Am I The Asshole' question | H |
| 1559/41 | As the Word Turns | 'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid | H |
| 1556/38 | Cross Us Up | Mirror a phrase, more or less | H H |
| 1552/34 | A Mirthday Party | Link two people who share a birthday | W H H H H |
| 1545/27 | Their Base Behavior | Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult. | H H |
| 1543/25 | F Things Up | Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F | H H |
| 1538/20 | Rhymes Against Humanity | Write a four-line poem about people in the news, using either of two poetic forms | 2 |
| 1537/19 | A Crooning Achievement | Write a lyric for a politician to sing. | W H |
| 1536/18 | Colt Following | Now that we have the winner and punners-up of our venerable foal-name contest, it's time for 'grandfoals'. | H |
| 1533/15 | The Very Last 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' | Tell us a stupid question followed by a funny retort. | H |
| 1530/12 | Mess With Our Heads | Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. | H |
| 1528/10 | It's Our Birthday. Party Like It's 1993. | As the Invite turns 30, enter your choice of contests from our year of infancy | H |
| 1511 | The inside word--our 'air quote' contest | Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in “air quotes” to give the word a new meaning or description. | H |
| 1506 | Let's go magnet-fishing with new words | From the provided list, write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer. | H |
| 1502 | It's Hi-time for Limerixicon XIX | Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with “hi-. | H |
| 1500 | These go to 15 | Make up a word or phrase whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 15 (no blanks!) and define it. | H |
| 1499 | Picture This, a cartoon caption contest | Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons. | 4 |
| 1496 | Same Difference -- compare two items on this list | Tell us humorously how any two (or more) items on the provided list are alike or different, or linked in some other way. | H |
| 1493 | Frankly speaking with feghoots | Tell a feghoot -- a mini-story (a ridiculous one is fine) that ends in a groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, line from a song, etc. | H |
| 1491 | The add biz | Choose any word, name or phrase beginning with A throough E, then add any single letter of the alphabet to it -- one or more times -- and define the result or show how it would be used. | H |
| 1490 | It's parody time -- sing the news | Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days. | W |
| 1489 | Let's movie things around | Rearrange the words of a movie title to create a new movie, then describe it | H |
| 1484 | Two ways about it | What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. | H |
| 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 |