WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1416 |
The Year in Redo, Part 2 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412. |
H |
1414 |
Divining comedy: 2021 predictions |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021. |
H |
1413 |
We're finna give you some new words |
Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of the provided terms. The terms must be used as they're defined in the new m-w.com listing. |
3 |
1405 |
Okay, once more around the track |
"Breed" any two of the provided foal names that got ink in Week 1400 and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. |
H |
1404 |
Ask Backwards XXXIX |
The answers are provided. You supply the questions. |
H |
1403 |
Who was that masked man? |
Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now. |
H |
1401 |
How hai? A joke-haiku contest |
Write a joke (roughly) in the "It's so xxx" genre as a haiku. |
H H |
1396 |
Hail Limerixicon XVII: Write a limerick featuring a 'ha-' word |
Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ha-". |
H H |
1390 |
'Same difference' for a new time |
Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. |
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 |
1383 |
Questionable Journalism |
Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer. |
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 |
1379 |
Your wish: A pun -- a star |
Tell a joke, in your choice of form, whose punchline is a pun on a song title or lyric. |
H |
1376 |
Get thee to a funnery |
Add a character (or more) to a Shakespeare play and supply some resulting dialogue. |
H |
1375 |
Mess With Our Heads |
Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. |
H |
1372 |
Trash talking, 1880-style |
Write a quatrain or -- heck -- two of Balliol rhyme about some person. |
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 |
1367 |
Pick me up at work, okay? |
Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. |
3 H H |
1363 |
The Year in Redo, Part 2 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1334 through Week 1359. |
H |
1361 |
2020 vision -- the year in preview |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020. |
H H |
1359 |
Back up in the air (quotes) |
Write a sentence or two and highlight an "air quote" that spans two or more words (and two sentences if you like). |
L |
1356 |
Ask Backwards 38 |
Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. |
H H |
1355 |
The inside word |
Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give the word a new meaning or description. |
H |
1353 |
What's playing at the retroplex |
Change a movie title to its "opposite" by reversing one or more words; then describe the new movie. |
H W |
1352 |
Hee-rotica -- Steamy prose for unsteamy life |
Write a short steamy scene (100 words would be considered long) about a non-steamy event. |
H |
1349 |
Revise and extend these remarks |
Go to congress.gov/congressional-record and click on the PDF for any day's Congressional Record. Choose any sentence (or substantial part of one) and write a question that it could answer. |
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. |
3 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. |
H |
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 |
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 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 |
1334 |
Mull 'er over: A search for collision |
Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, in a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it. |
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 |
1324 |
Chapter and worse |
Tell or describe a Bible story, or another classical or folk tale, very briefly (75 words would be lengthy) in the voice of a particular author or other person. |
H |