WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1511 | The inside word--our 'air quote' contest | Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in “air quotes” to give the word a new meaning or description. | H |
1489 | Let's movie things around | Rearrange the words of a movie title to create a new movie, then describe it | H 2 |
1440 | It's parody time! | Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days. | H |
1437 | One-offs: A 'typo' neologism contest | You're a fat-fingered typist: Change a word, name or phrase by either adding or substituting one letter that's adjacent (in any direction) to the original one on a regular QWERTY keyboard, or by doubling the correct letter. | H H |
1436 | Haven't seen it: Fun with movie titles | Misinterpret a movie title in a supposed plot description. | 4 |
1430 | Back to racing speed with the 'foals' | Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2021 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously play off both parents' names. | H |
1187 | Just drop it, okay? | Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result. | H |
1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | H |
965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | H |
944 | Uh, yeah, it's just you | Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions. | H 4 |
934 | Same difference | Explain how any two items in the provided list are similar or different. | H |
924 | Doomed to repeat it | Create "Unreal Facts" about history. | H |
921 | Give Us Willies | Write an original Little Willie poem, perhaps reflecting our current era. This is a venerable four-line genre in which Master W. does some nasty thing and doesn't tend to learn to be a Good Boy by poem's end. | H |
919 | Good Luck With 13 | Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result. | H |
918 | Colt Following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results. | H H |
916 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H |
912 | Pair-a-phrase | Lift a word that appears inside a longer word; pair it with the original word to create a phrase; and define it. | 2 |
910 | Your ad here | Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it. | H |
908 | Recast away | Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role. | H |