| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1133 | Are 'hew ready? A contest for clerihews | A clerihew is a humorous four-line rhyming poem about a person whose name is mentioned in the first line; in fact, the name must be at the end of that line (or constitute the whole line) so that it has to rhyme with something. The rhyme structure (and we don't want "lazy" rhymes) is AABB: the first line rhymes with the second, the third with the fourth. | H |
| 1004 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012. | H |
| 952 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2011. | H |
| 869 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H |
| 698 | Let's Get Personnel | Send us some humorously creative questions that a job interviewer would ask an applicant, or some questions it might be fun to ask the interviewer. | H |
| 694 | Hopelessly Ever After | Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing. | H |
| 681 | Ticket to Write | Write a jingle for a business (or its product), organization or government agency, set to a Beatles song. | P |
| 630 | Hyphen the Terrible | Combine the beginning and end of any two multisyllabic words in this week's Invitational, and then define the compound. | H H |
| 626 | Course Light | Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog. | 1 |
| 621 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer. | H |
| 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | H |