| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1447 | Give it to us straight | Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication (print or online) dated July 29 through Aug. 9, 2021, and intepret it in “plain English". | H |
| 1267 | Jingle bungle | Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle. | H |
| 1028 | Joint Legislation | Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation". | H |
| 981 | Feeling testy | Write a question that "ought to" be on a qualifying test for a particular job. | H |
| 980 | Def jam | Supply a humorous definition for any of the provided Loser-penned neologisms. | H |
| 943 | Ask backward XXIX | You are on "Jeopardy!" You supply the questions for as many of the provided answers as you like. | 3 |
| 915 | Picture this | Write a caption for any of the cartoons pictured here. | H |
| 897 | Catch their drift | Take any sentence from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English. | H |
| 895 | Picture this | Supply a caption for any of these cartoons. | H |
| 874 | Stat Us | Write a funny Facebook status line. | H H |
| 854 | What's not to liken? | Produce one or more similes in any of the following categories. | W |
| 849 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it. | H H H |
| 847 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from Dec. 11 through Dec. 21 and come up with a question it might answer. | H |
| 843 | Prefrains | Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. | H H |
| 842 | Ask backwards | Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please. | H |
| 840 | Frittering away the neurons | Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form. | L H 2 |
| 839 | Overlap Dance | Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D. | H |
| 838 | Picture This | Provide a caption for any of these pictures. | H |
| 837 | Strip Search | Combine two comic strips that appear in The Washington Post or at washingtonpost.com/comics and describe the results. | H |
| 835 | Tour de Fours VI | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters T, H, R, and E. | H |
| 833 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 832 | Clue Us In | You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid. | H |
| 830 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H |
| 826 | The Inside Word | Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word. | H H |
| 817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | H |
| 815 | Wittecisms | Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E. | H H H |
| 809 | Unkindest Cutlines | Supply cutlines, or captions, for any of these newspaper photos. | H H |
| 807 | Pretty Graphic Expressions | Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression. | H |
| 804 | Our Type o' Joke | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it. | H |
| 803 | The Pepys Show | Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history. | H |
| 802 | Dreck TV | Suggest a new cable TV channel, with a description or example of its programming. | H |
| 801 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. | H H 2 |
| 800 | Compairison | Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result. | H |
| 795 | Stimulate Us | Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on. | W |
| 792 | Clue Us In | Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | H |
| 790 | If Only! | Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred. | H |
| 787 | Tour de Fours V | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters M, I, N and E. | H |
| 783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | H H |
| 781 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H 2 |
| 780 | Location, Location, Location | Say how you know you're in a particular place. | H H H |
| 779 | Gripe for the Picking | Rant about any issue that wouldn't make your top 100 for airing in The Post. | H |
| 778 | Tied Games | Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game. | P |
| 775 | Ad-dition | Combine the beginning and end of any two words appearing in any single advertisement in The Post or on washingtonpost.com, from today through Aug. 4, and then define the new word. | H 3 |
| 773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | H |
| 772 | Make It Simile, Stupid | Translate a sentence or two of literature or other good writing so that "Los Angeles residents under 40" can appreciate it. | H |
| 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. | 3 |
| 769 | Splice Work If You Can Get It | Combine two words -- overlapping by at least two letters -- into what's known by polysyllabic types as a portmanteau word, and by the rest of us as mash word, and define it. | H |
| 768 | The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious | Come up with fictitious movie trivia. | H |
| 767 | Questionable Journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer. | H |
| 762 | Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls | Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term. | H |
| 761 | Strip Mining | Supply the text for any or all three of these Bob Staake comic strips. | 3 |
| 760 | Whacksy Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | H |
| 758 | Wrong Address | Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage. | H |
| 757 | Gorey Thoughts From A to Z | Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. | P |
| 755 | Take Another 'Whack | Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase. | P |
| 753 | Hot Off The Riddle | Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer. | H |
| 752 | The Might-Mates Right | Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates. | H |
| 749 | Opus 266, No. 3 | Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition. | H H |
| 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | H H |
| 746 | We Err The World | Give us a motto or short slogan for any country in the world. | T H |
| 745 | Hurry Up and Slow Down! | Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up. | M H |
| 744 | You OED Us One | Make up a humorous and false definition for any of the words listed below. | H H H |
| 743 | Picture This | Write a caption for any of these Bob Staake cartoons. | M H |
| 742 | Clue Us In | Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | H |
| 741 | Well, What Do You Know? | Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations. | L H |
| 738 | So What's To Liken? | Take any two items from the utterly random list above and explain how they are different or how they are similar. | H H |
| 737 | No River, No Woods | Send us a funny parody of a well-known song, with lyrics that commemorate an occasion other than Christmas or Hanukkah. | M |
| 736 | So, Should I Drive Like Your Brother? | Ask a car-related question that would make the Car Guys crack up. If you're not into cars, you can also post a question for advice columnist Ask Amy or etiquette columnist Miss Manners. | H 4 |
| 732 | The Chain Gang | Supply a chain of 25 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "George W. Bush. | H |
| 731 | Doo Process | Describe for us a wildly inefficient and ridiculous way to produce or prepare an ordinary dish or beverage. | H |
| 730 | Time-Wastes For Everyman | Describe activities that make entering The Style Invitational seem like a constructive use of one's time. | I H |
| 729 | Otherwordly Visions | Take any sentence in an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and translate it into "plain English. | W N H |
| 728 | Tour de Fours IV | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters S, A, T and R. | H |
| 723 | Name Your Poison | Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. | H |
| 721 | Know Your Market | For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. | H H H 1 |
| 719 | We Har the World | Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States. | H |
| 718 | Put Our Heads Together | Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in a single day's Washington Post (or on washingtonpost.com) | H |
| 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | H |
| 709 | A Return Engagement | Come up with some novel change to the tax code: a tax on something ought to be taxed, a credit for something that should be rewarded, what the $3 should go to instead of presidential campaigns, etc. | 1 |
| 707 | What Would YOU Do? | Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words. | 3 |
| 696 | Send Us the Bill | Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together. | H |