| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1082 | Band on the pun | Alter the name of a music group or performer slightly -- not necessarily by just one letter, but enough so it's obvious what the original is -- and describe it in some way. | P |
| 1038 | It's like this, see | Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels. | P I |
| 771 | Groaner's Manuals | Come up with a humorous name for a guide or manual for, or a book about, a particular enterprise or organization. | P |
| 708 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | H |
| 702 | Unreal Facts | Come up with a comically false factoid. | P |
| 596 | Take Her Words for It | Use the words of this week's Ask Amy advice column, as a pool from which to compose your own useful (or useless) thoughts. You may ignore or change capitalization or punctuation. | P |
| 580 | United Nations | Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country. | 3 |
| 567 | A Running Gag | Explain how any of the provided bizarre cartoons by Bob Staake relates to the current presidential campaign. | P |
| 530 | Tri Harder | Take any word, alter it in three ways--by adding a letter, by subtracting a letter and by changing a letter--and redefine all three new words. | P |
| 529 | United We Stanza | Summarize in four rhyming lines of verse any famous document, theory, principle or speech. | P |
| 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. | P |
| 459 | Stock Humor | Look at any of the abbreviated company names in the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange listings in any newspaper's business section and suggest what business the companies might be in. | H |
| 453 | Haiku 2 U2 | Write a haiku summarizing the career of any American politician, living or dead. A haiku is generally defined as a nonrhyming poem, of three lines. The first and last lines are five syllables; the middle line is seven. | P |
| 437 | The Telegraph Poll | Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. | H |