WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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753 | Hot Off The Riddle | Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer. | H |
751 | Strike Gold | Slightly change the name of an existing or former TV show to create a program that can scab the writers' strike. | H |
739 | Lies, All Lies | Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure. | H |
440 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | 1 |
324 | A PREQUEL OPPORTUNITY OFFERING | Come up with a "prequel" to some classic film or work of literature. You must produce a title and a brief plot summary, which of course must take place prior to the main action of the original work. | H |
321 | INTERPRET THIS | Take any of the provided cartoons and come up with a matched pair of interpretations for what is happening. | H |
316 | CALLING THE TOON | What are these things? | H |
310 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Come up with really lame analogies. | H |
303 | BOOM TIMES | Come up with old and new concerns for the baby boom generation. | H H 5 |
301 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | H |
300 | A BRAND NEW CONTEST | Come up with celebrity-brand products. | H |
298 | THE RIGHT STUFF | Write a sentence, or phrase, or entire passage, using only your right hand on the keyboard. This means you may use no keys to the left of N, H, Y and 7. | H H 3 |
294 | PRODUCT LIARBILITY | Take the name of any commercial product and redefine it. | H H 1 |
290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H |
287 | BEFORE AND AFTERMATH | Begin with a real name, append to it a word, name or expression that completes the bridge, and finally define the resulting phrase. | H 6 |
286 | CLINTOONS | Make your own Clintoon, a comic strip consisting of any or all of the provided drawings. | H |
285 | ELEVENIS, ANYTWO? | Take a common phrase containing a specific number, add or subtract one, and explain the revised phrase. | H |
284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H H |
282 | TAKING SNIDES | Take any story anywhere in today's Post and append to it a single snide observation, concerning either the headline or the text of the story. | W |
280 | EXPRESSING IT NICELY | Come up with colorful expressions for any of the six provided activities, to make them sound a little less tawdry. | 2 |
277 | LIFE IN THE BLURBS | Come up a simple plot summary to help attract the modern audience to any classic work of fiction. It must be literally true and defensible. | H |