| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | H |
| 503 | Doody and Muldoon | Write poetry that out-Muldoons Paul Muldoon, the Princeton professor who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Your poem must be a single quatrain, containing at least one rhyme and references to at least two body parts and one geographic name. | 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. | H H H |
| 473 | Offensive Line | Find what's offensive in any of the provided cartoons, and explain. | H |
| 387 | By Jingo | Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. | H |
| 371 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 263 | THE GAME OF THE NAME | Propose a bad name for the provided categories. | H H |
| 221 | SONG SUNG BROWN | Pick any song, pick a well-known line, and give us the discarded first draft. If it is part of a rhyme, you must maintain the rhyme. | H |
| 174 | THE EDGE OF MIGHT | Complete any of the four provided "you might" phrases. | H |
| 118 | WEAK 118 | Take any photo caption or headline appearing anywhere in today's Post and alter its meaning by adding, deleting, or changing one letter. | H H |
| 84 | THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS | Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America. | H |
| 65 | DESPERATELY SEEKING HUMOR | Write a personal ad. It may be for a celebrity or for anyone in need of adroit euphemism. | W |
| 52 | PERJURED TESTIMONIALS | Come up with inappropriate celebrity endorsements for real products. | I 1 |
| 47 | CAN YOU DO VERSE? | Bad Valentine's Day poetry. Any rhyme scheme, any form of literary dysfunction. | 3 |
| 42 | HEY, IT COULD BE WORSE | There are worse things in life than the Washington Redskins. Just tell us what they are. | H |
| 27 | IT'S THE EPONYMY, STUPID | Coin an eponym, a word or figure of speech based on the name of a famous person. You must define the word, and, if you wish, use it in a sentence. | H |
| 9 | VANITY UNFAIR | Create vanity license plates for famous people. | H |
| 2 | WRITE A MOTTO. WIN A MONSTROSITY. | Maryland needs a new motto, a multi-purpose slogan suitable for placement on a state seal or a license plate. Something grand, something that embodies the full bodacious majesty of the state. | H |