WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1414 |
Divining comedy: 2021 predictions |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021. |
H |
1408 |
Re-Organization |
Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it. |
L |
1407 |
Your ad space (or space ad) here |
Come up with an idea for promoting some commercial product or service (a) in space, (b) in a prison, (c) at a kindergarten, (d) by a football team or (e) in the White House. |
H |
1402 |
2020: Metaphors for a bleep year |
Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it. |
H |
1399 |
The lie-zy days of summer |
Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer. |
H |
1398 |
This is the year that is |
Describe the year 2020 in a novel, colorful metaphor or simile. You may also offer an original graphic. |
H |
1395 |
Add nauseam: A plus-one contest |
Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional |
H |
1391 |
No-covid zone -- a neologism contest |
Coin a new word or phrase that lacks C, O, V, I and D and describe it. |
L |
1388 |
Turning around a business |
Create a business, product, organization or similar entity that contains a word, name or phrase and its anagram, and describe it. |
H |
1387 |
Movie clips -- drop letters from the middle of a title |
Delete one or more letters (they must be consecutive) from the middle of a movie title, and describe the resulting new movie. |
H |
1386 |
Colt following: It's the grandfoals! |
"Breed" any two of the 70 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. |
H |
1385 |
Don't you want to see new places? |
Change any place name slightly and describe the new place. |
H H |
1384 |
Of course there are stupid questions! |
Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation. |
H |
1382 |
For us, it's still Post Time |
"Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 of the 145 previous Kentucky Derby winners, from 1875 to 2019, and name the foal to humorously reflect the parents' names. |
H |
1381 |
Let's be equinoxious with fictoids about spring |
Tell us some untrue trivia about springtime or things that happen or happened in the spring. |
4 |
1380 |
Both sides now |
Delete one or more letters (in a row) from a word or brief phrase to find another word, and define it. |
H |
1373 |
Prime time for some Amazon reviews |
Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. |
H H |
1371 |
The Tile Invitational VII |
Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. |
H |
1368 |
Picture This -- cartoon captions |
Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. |
3 |
1362 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311. |
H |
1347 |
Reologisms |
Write a clever, funny definition for any of the provided Loser-concocted words and phrases, and/or show they'd be used. |
H H H |
1345 |
The confaketionary -- food fictoids |
Tell us some comically false "fact" about food, drink or dining. |
H |
1342 |
MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs. |
Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc. |
4 H W |
1341 |
Portmanteautapping from E to R |
Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it. |
H H |
1340 |
Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name |
Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both. |
H |
1338 |
Picture This -- cartoon captions |
Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. |
H H H |
1337 |
Lidder me this: anagram riddles |
Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names. |
H |
1329 |
Shakespeare + Thee: Tailgaters |
Select any line from a work by Shakespeare (poetry or prose) and pair it with your own line to create a humorous rhyming couplet. |
H |
1327 |
Mess with our (or anyone's) heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle. |
H H |
1326 |
Foaling around |
"Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 horses and name the foal to reflect both names. |
4 |
1323 |
Selected shortened subjects |
Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie. |
2 H H T |
1322 |
Back to the drawing board |
Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out. |
H |
1321 |
Pumping Prime: Amazon reviews |
Send us a humorous "review" (like the provided samples from our earlier contests) for any of the provided items. |
3 H H |
1320 |
Questionable journalism |
Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Feb. 21-March 4, and pair it with a question it might answer. |
H H |
1319 |
The Tile Invitational VI |
Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. |
H H M W |
1297 |
A different type o' headline contest |
Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head." |
H |
1294 |
As the word turns |
“Discover” a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters — in any direction or several directions — in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. |
H |
1291 |
Film flam -- movie anagrams |
Rearrange the letters of a title of a movie or play to make a new title, then describe the new work. |
H |
1289 |
Fake gnus: bogus animal trivia |
Tell us a fictoid -- a humorously false "fact" -- about the nonhuman animal kingdom. |
2 |
1288 |
Your results may vary |
Write a funny disclaimer or warning for some product or service. |
T W |
1284 |
Same difference |
Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. |
2 |
1283 |
Put it in Bee-verse |
Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes one of the provided words, all from the 2018 National Spelling Bee. |
H M |
1281 |
We only have (googly) eyes for you |
Send us a photo of something that you have made funny by pasting googly eyes on it; funny titles and captions are optional. |
H H |
1280 |
A la'ugh' a minute with 'air quotes' |
Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give it a new meaning or description. |
3 H H |
1279 |
Just do it -- the 'real' way |
List some "accurate" directions for using some product or completing some task. |
H |
1275 |
That is the question |
Choose a line from Shakespeare (or a significant part of a line) and pair it with a question that the line could humorously answer. |
2 H |
1274 |
Heading for a foal -- our horse name 'breeding' contest |
Your job is to "breed" any two names of the 360 horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to reflect both names. |
H |
1273 |
Restocking the Cabinet |
Explain why a particular person -- or thing -- ought to fill a Cabinet post or other U.S. government position. |
H |
1272 |
The hex files: creative curses |
Come up with a creative curse. |
W |
1271 |
Yodel Doyle's praises with a D-O-Y-L-E neologism |
Coin a new word or phrase that contains the letters D, O, Y, L and E. |
H H |
1269 |
Mess with our (or other) heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) or another publication and dated March 1-12 by writing a bank head. |
H H |
1267 |
Jingle bungle |
Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle. |
H |
1263 |
Playing the short game |
Using the three-letter Olympic national abbreviations and/or the abbreviation for any college, tell what would happen if one abbreviated team played another. |
H H |
1262 |
Clue us in -- a backward crossword |
Supply one or more creative clues for the provided filled-in crossword grid -- as many as 25 clues in all. |
H |
1260 |
What lies (are) ahead for 2018 |
Jokingly predict some news event to happen in 2018. |
H H |
1257 |
The year in redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1203 through Week 1229, except for Weeks 1205 and 1206. |
H H |
1256 |
Picture this -- a caption contest |
Provide a funny caption for any of the provided cartoons. |
T |
1254 |
Inkorporation--a change-one-letter contest |
Change the name of a present or past business, store or agency (not just a product) by adding one letter, deleting one letter, transposing two letters or substituting one letter for another. |
W |
1252 |
It's a med, med, med, med world |
Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat. |
H H H |
1251 |
Thanking outside the box |
Tell us something to be thankful for. |
H H |
1248 |
C'mon, fess up! |
Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding. |
H H |
1247 |
Script tease |
Offer a quote from a script whose title you've given a different plot. |
4 H H H |
1244 |
Primed for product reviews |
Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. |
4 |
1233 |
Not |
The Loser Community gets a week off (actually two) from writing contest entries and will have to find something else to do during staff meetings, sermons, romantic breakups, etc. |
H |
1229 |
Gorey bits from A to Z |
Send us one of more edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. |
H |
1228 |
That movie is SO about you |
Name someone who was the "secret inspiration" for a certain movie. |
H |
1222 |
Foaling around |
"Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both of them. |
H H |
1217 |
Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns |
Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses. |
H H H |
1210 |
Send us the bill: Our 'joint legislation' game |
Combine two or more names from the provided list of members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. |
H |
1207 |
Clue us in -- a reverse crossword |
Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the 72 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H H |
1206 |
Do-over the do-over -- enter any of the year's contests |
Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1202, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over. |
H |
1201 |
Tour de Fours XIII: What's there to NOVE? |
Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block N-O-V-E. |
4 |
1198 |
Give it to us straight |
Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication dated Oct. 20 to Oct. 31 — or from an online article dated within that period — and translate it into “plain English". |
2 L |
1196 |
Hyphen the Terrible |
Combine either half of a hyphenated word or compound term with either half of another such term to create a new hyphenated term, and describe the result humorously. |
T |
1195 |
Don't change a letter! |
Alter a movie title only by changing word spacing, changing capitalization, and adding or deleting punctuation marks, accents, etc., then describe the result. |
H H H |
1192 |
Ask Backwards |
The 15 provided phrases above are the answers. You provide the questions to as many as you’d like (up to 25 entries total). |
2 H |
1191 |
Mess with our heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) and dated Sept. 1-12 by writing a bank head, or subtitle |
H H |
1190 |
You're workin' on a chain, gang |
Create a chain of no more than 15 proper nouns — names of people (real or fictional), products, places, etc. — including one title of a work — in which each name relates somehow to the previous one. |
T |
1188 |
Just short words, one more time |
Explain some concept or philosophy entirely in words of one syllable. |
H |
1187 |
Just drop it, okay? |
Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result. |
H H W |
1186 |
We're always happy to verse you |
Write a humorous poem, of any form, about or “by” the anagram of anyone’s name. |
4 |
1185 |
The Rorschach of the crowd |
Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways. |
H |
1184 |
Plan C -- a third candidate? |
Explain why some novel person (or thing) should be president; you could also suggest a president-veep ticket. |
H |
1181 |
Put it in Bee-verse |
Write a short, humorous poem using one of the 36 provided words, all from the 2016 National Spelling Bee. |
H |
1178 |
A ______ of collective nouns |
Propose one or more funny new names for groups of things. |
H |
1175 |
Good luck with 13 |
Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 13, and define it. |
H H |
1174 |
Colt following -- It's time for the grandfoals |
"Breed" any two of the 57 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. |
4 H |
1173 |
Tinker with the recipe |
Slightly change the name of a food or brand of food (or something else in the food industry) and describe it, or write a slogan, jingle, etc. |
H H |
1172 |
Pieces of 'Pie' |
Write a short passage -- an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in the song "American Pie". |
4 M T |
1170 |
Derby or not Derby |
"Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both names. |
H W |
1167 |
So what's to liken? |
Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different, or connect them some other way. |
4 H |
1165 |
B all you can B |
Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more B's, and/or by replacing one or more letters with B's, and define your new term. |
H |
1163 |
Put it in reverse |
Spell a word, name or phrase backward and define the result in a way that relates to the original. |
H H |
1162 |
An 8-year Re-Onion |
Write a fictional Onion-type headline. |
H |
1161 |
Give us four Pinocchios |
Tell us some false "facts" about politicians, present or past. |
3 T |
1160 |
A remeaning task |
Redefine an existing word or two-word term beginning with P through Z. |
4 H H |
1159 |
It's all in the game |
Come up with a funny/ridiculous board-type game and describe it. |
H |
1158 |
What have we here? |
Tell us what one or more of these objects really are. |
H H H H |
1157 |
Clue us in -- a backward crossword |
Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H H |
1156 |
Dead letters |
Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2015. |
H H |
1153 |
Be three-paired |
Choose two or more entities represented by a single three-letter combination from IAA through LZZ, found at the provided link, and say how they are alike or different or have some connection. |
M |
1152 |
Oops? You do it again. |
Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1098 through Week 1148, except for Week 1101, last year's do-over. |
H M |
1151 |
To [a glass], snarkly |
Write a short, snarky (but witty) note to one of the provided glassbowls. |
H |
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. |
P |
1148 |
It's TankaWanka II |
Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And it must include at least one rhyme. |
T |
1147 |
It's E-Z find-a-word -- yours |
Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. |
H H H M |
1146 |
Stick it to us with a magnet |
Suggest a new Style Invitational honorable-mention magnet. |
H H |
1145 |
A DICEy situation |
Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block D-I-C-E. |
H H T |
1144 |
Someone else's business |
Name a real brand, along with something else it would be a better name for. |
H |
1142 |
Two-faced tweets |
Combine two well-known names into a Twitter handle, and write a tweet (no more than 140 characters and spaces) that that portmanteau person might write. |
M |
1141 |
Mess with our heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online) Sept. 17-28 by writing a bankhead, or subtitle. |
H H H W |
1140 |
You're giving us a bad name |
Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for. |
H |
1139 |
A little sixty-four play |
Fashion an entry by selecting one element from each of the provided menu groups. Make sure you indicate the combination you chose (e.g., 2-C-iii). |
T |
1137 |
Be a published author! |
Give us a spicy title for a boring book, real or imagined. |
H |
1136 |
Gaah! It's Limerixicon XII |
Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ga-". |
H |
1134 |
The 'Sty'le Invitational Red'ux' |
Put quotation marks around part of a word, name or phrase and define the result. |
H |
1132 |
You and what army? Military fictoids |
Give us some comically bogus trivia about the military, past or present, ours or theirs. |
W |
1130 |
Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase |
Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it. |
H H |
1128 |
Drone for a loop |
Give us some novel uses for a CICADA micro-drone, assuming that anyone can get one, and that it can have a micro-camera, micro-grips, etc. |
2 H |
1127 |
From the creators of … |
Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue. |
H |
1126 |
Picture this |
Provide a humorous caption for any of the cartoons provided. |
4 H |
1123 |
The Tile Invitational III |
Give us a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided seven-letter sets. |
H H H H H |
1122 |
Colt Following: 'Grandfoals' |
"Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names. |
H H |
1119 |
We want hue so bad |
Invent a name for a color and describe it. |
3 H |
1118 |
Breed 'em and weep |
Breed any two of the provided 100 racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown events and name the foal the reflect both names. |
H |
1112 |
Some SHARP words |
Coin a word or short term that includes all the letters S, H, A, R, and P. |
H W |
1111 |
When you riff upon a store |
Use a wordplay on a song title as a name or slogan for a real or imagined business. |
H |
1107 |
Send us the bill |
Combine two or more names from the list of members of Congress on this page to "cosponsor" a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. |
H T |
1101 |
The year in redo |
Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1047 through Week 1097, except for Week 1050. |
H H H |
1099 |
Questionable journalism |
Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in an article in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated Nov. 20 through Dec. 1 (in print, any article from those days' papers), and make up a question that the sentence could answer. |
H |
1098 |
Prime time for some Amazon reviews |
Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. |
4 H |
1097 |
Futz your sign |
Select a line from one of the horoscopes appearing anytime from Nov. 6 through Nov. 17 in the Washington Post's daily Style or on washingtonpost.com and "clarify" it with a translation or extra "information". |
2 H |
1096 |
Picture this |
Write a humorous caption for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons. |
2 H |
1094 |
TAXI's the fare for Tour de Fours XI |
Coin a word or hyphenated term that contains the letter block T-A-X-I; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them. |
H M |
1092 |
Are we having funds yet? |
Suggest a humorous fundraising "challenge" for any organization. |
3 H |
1090 |
Talk undirty to us |
Write a humorous poem in any form (no more than eight lines) that includes one or more of the provided words; the word must make sense in the poem in its TRUE meaning. |
H W |
1089 |
It's E-Z Find-a-Word -- your own! |
Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. |
H H H |
1088 |
Ask backwards with our answers, your questions |
Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like. |
H M |
1086 |
Playing the dozens |
1. Start with any 12-letter word, name or multi-word phrase. 2. Add one letter OR drop one letter OR substitute another letter OR switch the position of two letters to create a new term, as in the examples given. 3. Define or describe the result humorously. |
H |
1085 |
Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops |
Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site. |
H H |
1083 |
Everybody get appy |
Offer up an idea for either a humorously useful app or a humorously counterproductive one. |
H H M |
1079 |
Little piddle riddle |
Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme. |
H |
1076 |
Dactyly fractyly |
Send us some double dactyls that conform to Gene Weingarten's rules. |
H M |
1073 |
Bank shots: Mess with (y)our heads |
Quote a headline appearing in the Washington Post, washington.com or another publication, print or headline, dated May 22 to June 1, and supply a "bank" headline that either misinterprets it, as in the examples above, or comments wryly on it. |
H H |
1072 |
The Tile Invitational |
Come up with a 5-, 6-, or 7-letter term by scrambling any of the provided seven-letter ScrabbleGram sets, and define it. |
H H |
1071 |
A pair of threes |
Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination at bit.ly/3letterabs and say how they are alike or different. |
H |
1070 |
Colt following -- our grandfoals contest |
"Breed" any two of the foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names. |
H M W |
1069 |
It's a small, small world |
Write a humorous poem of no more than eight lines -- it doesn't have to rhyme -- using only the top 1,000 words on Wiktionary.org's list of the most common among 20 million words found in movie and TV scripts. |
M |
1067 |
A(t)tribute to your wit |
Alter a well-known quote slightly and attribute it to someone else. |
H H |
1066 |
It's mating season |
"Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names. |
H H |
1065 |
The ands have it |
Slightly alter ANY well-known phrase in the form "A-and-B" -- it doesn't have to be Latinate/Anglo-Saxon -- and define it. |
H H |
1064 |
HistoRebuffs |
Alter some moment in history and tell us -- in no more than about 50 words -- the likely outcome. |
T |
1063 |
Same difference |
Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different. |
3 H M |
1062 |
Scanning the headlines |
Write a rhyming poem about something currently in the news. |
H H W |
1061 |
Less taste, more fill-in |
Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down. |
H H |
1060 |
Picture this |
Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons. |
H |
1059 |
With parens like these … |
Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way. |
H |
1058 |
Eastwood Ho |
Create a good-bad-ugly progression. |
H T |
1057 |
Sportin' lie |
Give us some fake sports trivia. |
H H T |
1056 |
Weather or nuts |
Coin a term relating to the weather, climate, etc. -- either literal or figurative -- and define it. |
H H |
1054 |
Dead letters |
Write a short, humorous poem commemorating someone (or maybe even something) who died in 2013. |
H H L |
1053 |
Questionable journalism |
Quote an actual sentence, from The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, or another print or online publication dated between Dec. 26 and Jan. 6, and follow it with a question that the sentence might answer. |
H |
1052 |
Clue us in |
Come up with up to 25 creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms that appear in the provided grid. |
H |
1051 |
Love the tiny tail stain! |
Create an anagram -- a text with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length, referring to something or someone in the news. |
H |
1050 |
Just redo it |
Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1000 through Week 1046. |
H H H H |
1049 |
Be rating |
Come up with a new movie rating and describe it. |
H H M |
1047 |
Bank shots |
Quote a headline appearing in The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com or another publication, print or online, dated Nov. 14 to Nov. 25, and supply a humorous "bank" headline that either misinterprets it or comments wryly on it. |
H W |
1045 |
Songs for the asking |
Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer. |
4 H H |
1044 |
Play it safe |
Come up with a comically safety-conscious rule for the workplace or elsewhere. |
M |
1042 |
Tour de Fours X: Go SANE |
Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block S-A-N-E -- in any order, but consecutively, and define it. |
H |
1041 |
What have you got to lose? |
Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song. |
H |
1040 |
IRS my case |
Schedule A: Suggest a novel way for the government to determine taxes. Schedule B: Suggest a deduction that you'd like to take, or that some real or fictional person past or present might like to take. Schedule C: Suggest a cause you'd rather check off $3 for. |
H |
1038 |
It's like this, see |
Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels. |
2 H |
1037 |
Outrage us |
Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc. |
H H |
1036 |
Just for liffs |
Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term. |
H H H H |
1035 |
The Empy 500 |
Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings. |
H |
1033 |
LimeriXicon |
Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "fa-". |
2 T |
1032 |
Hid stuff |
Explain the symbolism "obviously" evident in any well-known site, artwork, etc., in 75 words or fewer. |
H H H |
1030 |
The cinquain feeling |
Write a clever cinquain. The five-line form is straightforward: first line, two syllables; second line, four syllables; third line, six; fourth line, eight; fifth line, two. |
H |
1029 |
Ditty Harry |
Write a descriptive theme song for a well-known movie, set to a well-known tune. |
H M |
1028 |
Joint Legislation |
Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation". |
H H M T |
1027 |
Built for two |
Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc. |
3 H H |
1026 |
'Might' makes ink |
Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. |
H H |
1024 |
Gorey thoughts |
Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ. |
2 H H H |
1023 |
Hai there, Martians! |
Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth. |
H H |
1022 |
What's the diff? |
Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different. |
M |
1021 |
'Gram theft |
Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it. |
2 H H H T |
1020 |
Colt following |
Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal. |
H H |
1019 |
What a turnoff |
Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. |
H H |
1018 |
Reologisms |
Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time. |
H |
1016 |
Foaling around |
Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents. |
H |
1015 |
Faux re mi |
Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians. |
4 T |
1013 |
Har monikers |
Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer. |
H H H |
1012 |
The news at 5 |
Write a limerick about a recent news event. |
3 H |
1011 |
Top these! |
Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. |
H |
1010 |
Picture this |
Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons. |
H H H |
1009 |
What's in a name? |
Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name. |
H |
1007 |
Clue us in |
Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H H |
1005 |
Send us the bill |
Name a piece of legislation "cosponsored" by two or more of the 98 new House and Senate members provided. |
H |
1002 |
Wring out the OED |
Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words. |
4 |
1000 |
We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters |
Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result. |
H |
995 |
Ask backwards |
We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question. |
H |