| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1463 | Fork over some (new) Spoonerisms | Write and original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism. | 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 |
| 1224 | We beg you to differ | Explain how any two (or more) items in the provided list are the same or different, or otherwise connected. | H |
| 1210 | Send us the bill: Our 'joint legislation' game | Combine two or more names from the provided list of members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. | H H |
| 1027 | Built for two | Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc. | H H |
| 1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | H |
| 951 | Say that again | Double a word, or use a word and its homophone, to make a phrase, and define it. | H |
| 896 | 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 |
| 883 | Same difference | Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other. | 3 |
| 865 | No Googlenopes left | Come up with a humorous Googlenope. | H H |
| 849 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it. | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | H H |
| 810 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | H |
| 799 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together. | H |
| 782 | That's the Ticket! | Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | H |
| 716 | The Hard Spell | Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected from this year's National Spelling Bee. | H H |
| 684 | Backtricking | Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word. | 3 |
| 474 | Alphabettering | Create a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet at least once but that would never be heard on the politically correct, genteel, rarified air of NPR. | P |
| 206 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE II | Create a new word by combining the first half of any hyphenated word in today's newspaper with the second half of any other hyphenated word elsewhere in the same story, and supply a definition. | H |
| 141 | ASK BACKWARD VII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 136 | NEW END IN SIGHT | Come up with new endings to make literary classics more suitable for Hollywood in the 1990s. | H |
| 133 | LIKE, WOW. | Come up with funny analogies. | L 1 |
| 124 | SPOON-FEED US. | Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words. | H |
| 107 | CLUSTERS' LAST STAND | Take an actual star cluster, redraw the lines into a different image, and give it a new name. | H |