| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 502 | Picture This | Who are these people? What are they doing? | H |
| 499 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown and tell us the name of their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | 4 |
| 489 | Combo, First Blood | Combine two people whose names contain a common element, as in the examples above. Then describe the person, or provide a quote he or she might have uttered. | H |
| 375 | Show Us Up | Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show. | H |
| 372 | Trial Balloons | Fill in the balloons. | H |
| 352 | A Laff Riot | Take the name of a company and/or its commercial product and provide it a new definition. | H |
| 349 | Orienting Oneself | Produce a haiku using only words found in today's Washington Post. Your entry must have three lines, the first containing exactly five syllables, the second containing exactly seven syllables, the third containing exactly five. | 1 |
| 348 | When We're LXIV | Fashion an entry by selecting one from each of the provided menu groups: a short poem, analogy or metaphor, slogan or aphorism, or "Did you ever wonder why" sentence with various limitations. | H 1 |
| 344 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Envision the mating of any two of the 387 horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown, and propose a name for their foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 or fewer letters and spaces. | H |
| 343 | Eastwood Ho. | Create a Good-Bad-Ugly progression. | H |
| 339 | Campaignful Developments | Come up with signs that a presidential campaign might be in trouble. | H H |
| 329 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around. | H H |
| 328 | NICE CAPADES | Send in some pleasant observation, in which you take a really cheerful or heartwarming view of something that less charitable people might conceivably see differently. | H |
| 320 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. | H H 4 |
| 318 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Combine the first half of any hyphenated word in a story in today's paper with the second part of a different hyphenated word from the same story, and provide a new definition. | 3 |
| 316 | CALLING THE TOON | What are these things? | 1 |
| 315 | FERMENTING TROUBLE | Write a rhyming poem, eight lines maximum, on the subject of cheese or any of the provided items. | H |
| 314 | IT'S THE LIST YOU CAN DO | Start with the name of a famous person, living or dead, real or fictional, either a full name or partial name. Progress through a series of other names or phrases. Each name or phrase must be related to the prior item either by being a homophone or a definition. Eventually, arrive at a name or a phrase that is an appropriate pairing with the original name. | H |
| 310 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Come up with really lame analogies. | H 2 |
| 305 | ASK BACKWARDS CMXVI2 | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | 1 |
| 304 | TIME OF THE SIGNS | Come up with appropriate signage to appear outside any business or retail establishment in the Washington area, including government offices. | H |
| 300 | A BRAND NEW CONTEST | Come up with celebrity-brand products. | H |
| 296 | BILL US LATER | Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor. | H H |
| 291 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Take any story in today's paper, find a word that breaks with a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of different hyphenated word in the same story. Then supply a definition for the new hybrid word. | W H |
| 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H |
| 272 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | H |
| 263 | THE GAME OF THE NAME | Propose a bad name for the provided categories. | H |
| 259 | SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY? | Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange. | H |
| 258 | IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. | Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. | H |
| 255 | SCANDAL IN THE WIND | Each of the provided items is somehow related to the current presidential scandal. Tell us how. | H |
| 251 | QUOTH THE MAVEN | Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it. | H H |
| 250 | OH, GREAT | Complete the sentence "Wouldn't it be great if . . . | H |
| 241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | H |
| 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | H |
| 236 | CALLING THE TOON. | What is happening here? | H H |
| 234 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead. | H |
| 232 | PRIMAL URGES | Update, for the millennium, the old "A is for Apple" reading primer. An entry must include the four letters in one of these blocks: A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z. | H |
| 224 | DRAWING CONCLUSIONS | What is wrong with these pictures? | H H |
| 219 | VERBOSITY | Come up with new, obnoxious, self-conscious faux verbs and use them in sentences. | H |
| 216 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Pair up any two of the 400-plus horses who have qualified for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their foal, in a maximum of 18 characters, including spaces. | H 1 |
| 208 | SEND IN THE CLONES | Suggest questions a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider. | H |
| 199 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H |
| 197 | DAVE'S WORLD | Make David Twenhafel laugh. Any sort of delightful drollery or amusing witticism will do, so long as it is not the sort of lowbrow fare we usually favor. | H H |
| 193 | ASK BACKWARDS VIII | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | H |
| 188 | BLANKETY BLANKS | Complete any of the above sentences, substituting your own phrases for the well-known omitted words. | H H 1 |
| 187 | RACE TO THE FINISH LINE | In 75 words or fewer, continue in a productive fashion the story line of the provided real first lines of famous literary works. | W |
| 186 | CALLING THE TOON | Who are these people? What are they doing? | H H |
| 183 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG II | Create hawkers' rhymes for modern-day occupations like lobbyists, lawyers, talk show hosts, actuaries, etc., at a maximum of four lines. It must contain at least one rhyme. | 3 |
| 180 | WHEN IN DOUBT, PUN | Take any headline in today's Post and improve it by somehow turning it into a pun. | H |
| 177 | SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE | Tell us what any of the provided sounds are. | H |
| 173 | DEAD RECKONING | Propose a question that might be asked by a living celebrity to a famous dead person. You must name the living person, name the dead person, and tell us the question. | 1 |
| 172 | POEDTRY | An entire poetic form, making its global debut in the Style Invitational. The first line must contain only six words of one syllable each; the second line, three words of two syllables each; the third line, two words of three syllables each, and the final line a single word of six syllables. At least two lines must rhyme. The general subject matter should be mundane. | H |
| 169 | DIFF'RENT JOKES | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | 2 |
| 168 | LICENSE TO CARRY A PUN | Come up with original jokes like those provided. | H |
| 164 | MEAN MEANINGS | Translate things politicians say into what they really mean. | H |
| 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | H H |
| 145 | LOOIE, LOOIE | Come up with paired, themed ladies' room and men's room signs for various types of public places. | W |