WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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836 | Other People's Business | Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. | 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 |
829 | Limerixicon 6 | Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters di-. | H H |
726 | Limerixicon 4 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-. | H H |
674 | Limerixicon 3 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. | H |
643 | The Post's Mortems | Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005. | H |
625 | Haven't Seen It | Make up a new plot for an existing movie title. | T H |
624 | Limerixicon 2 | Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with bd- through bl-. | H H |
602 | Take a Letter -- Again | Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H H |
591 | Dead Letters | Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year. | H 2 |
582 | Perversery Rhymes | Update a nursery rhyme or children's song with an edgier text. | T H H |
576 | Well, Excuuuuse Us! | Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. | L |
573 | Thine Ad Goest Here | Propose biblical and other literary passages, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement. | H |
572 | The Limerixicon | Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ai- through ar-. | H 2 |
570 | Timeline Rhyme Lines | Produce colorful chronological couplets about some historical event. They must rhyme and be in good meter. | H |
569 | Murphy's Lore | Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions. | H H |
563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | 3 |
559 | Your Slogan Here | Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. | H |
555 | A Tsk, A Task | Come up with a super-wholesome passage of 25 words or fewer that would likely be banned by the admirable, ever-vigilant Neopets.com site. | T |
551 | Lost in Translation | Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English. | 1 |
550 | Spring Cleaning | Suggest creative uses for things you've already used, or never will use, or other disposable household thingies, singly or in combination. | 2 |
548 | Inklings | Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies. | H |
546 | A Nice Pair of Cities | Choose any two or more real U.S. towns and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake. | H |
539 | Dead Letters | Pay tribute in verse to someone who died in 2003. | 2 |
538 | Try, Try Again | Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. | H H |
536 | And the Horse He Rodin On | Come up with some words we can stick in the back of The Inker. | H |
534 | The Feminine Touch | Propose how any male-dominated occupation or institution would change if it suddenly became female-dominated. | H |
529 | United We Stanza | Summarize in four rhyming lines of verse any famous document, theory, principle or speech. | H H |
518 | Say, Kids, What Time Is It? | Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------. | H H H |
516 | Err Apparent | Come up with unwise things to say in any of the provided circumstances. | H |
513 | It's Delete We Can Do | Come up with very bad subject lines for spam e-mail--lines that will guarantee instant deletion, sight unseen. | H |
512 | Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader | Take the name of any person--living, dead, fictional--and use the letters of his name, in succession, to form the first letters of an expression appropriate to that person. | H |
510 | Universal Embarrassment | What would you like to see Miss Universe Pageant contestants asked live, on national TV? | H |
509 | Be a Real Card | Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. | H H |
507 | Crocktails | Come up with a drink named for something or someone associated with Washington and describe the drink. | H |
506 | The Battle of All Mottoes | Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc. | H |