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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR NEIL KURLAND



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
1610 Wryku Write a haiku about something in the news. H H H
1602 We Got Game Tell us some funny ways to 'improve' a sport. M H
1601 Stop, Hey, What's That Sound? Tell us what these noise-words mean. H
1593 Qwerty Lashes Write us something funny from just a few letters of the keyboard. H
1591 Our Typo Humor More fun with headlines. H H
1590 All You Need Is Ink Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. T
1588 Colt Fusion Because of our munificense and guilt, you get a full hundred foal names to 'breed' for 'grandfoals' H H
1586 Pun for the Roses Our annual crazy-popular horse 'breeding' wordplay contest. H
1582 You're Workin' on a Chain, Gang A classic connection game. M H
1579 Captions Courageous Write a description for any of six photos H
1577 Why the #$%#$% Not? The Washington Post is looking for some bold ideas -- Let's show it some! H 2
1575 The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers Give us an idea for a bad book or movie. H
1573 The Invitational Week 55: Tour de Fours — Be STUD-ly Give us a new word or phrase containing 'DUST' in any order of letters. M H
1570 The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II Enter or reenter our Week 26-50. L H H
1569 Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1 Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests. H H
1567 Picture This A caption contest H
1564 "Air" "Quotes" A new forefinger contest L H H H H
1549 The Tile Invitational X It's our 10th running of this coin-a-word game. H H
1545 Their Base Behavior Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult. 2
1544 Same Difference Tell us humorously how items on the list are alike, different, or otherwise linked. H H
1543 F Things Up Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F H H
1542 Your (B)ad Here Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product H H
1540 Picture This It's caption contest time, with eight motley pictures to choose from. H H
1536 Colt Following Now that we have the winner and punners-up of our venerable foal-name contest, it's time for 'grandfoals'. H
1534 Pun for the Roses Our renowned horse name 'breeding' contest returns! H H
1530 Mess With Our Heads Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. H
1527 Film Flim-Flam Use all the letters in a movie title to make a new movie M
1524 Picture This A caption contest H
1523 Where in Hell ...? Name a "circle" for some "evil", plus a suitable punishment 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
1509 MASH MASH: combine 2 one-word movies Combine two single-word movie titles to make a new movie and describe it. L
1507 All over the map! Choose one of the contiguous 48 U.S. states or D.C. Then write a funny slogan for that state by “traveling a route” from that state into several others. Use the first letters of the states in your route as the first letters of the words in your slogan. H
1505 Munici-pals Choose any two or more real U.S. or Canadian towns — they need to show up on a Google search — and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake. H
1501 Try a little 'kindness' Tell about an “act of kindness” that you or someone else does that, well, won’t be appreciated. 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
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 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