| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1197 | Picture This -- It's a Bob Staake caption contest | Write a caption for any of the cartoons provided. | P |
| 1178 | A ______ of collective nouns | Propose one or more funny new names for groups of things. | H |
| 1130 | Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase | Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it. | H |
| 1122 | Colt Following: 'Grandfoals' | Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names. | H H |
| 1070 | Colt following -- our grandfoals contest | Breed" any two of the foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names. | H |
| 1031 | The 'Sty'le Invitational | Choose any word, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word. | H H |
| 1028 | Joint Legislation | Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation". | H |
| 1024 | Gorey thoughts | Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ. | H |
| 1016 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents. | H |
| 1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | H |
| 995 | Ask backwards | We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question. | 3 |
| 994 | Stick it to us | Suggest a slogan for one of our two new honorable-mention Loser Magnets for 2012-2013. | H |
| 973 | A real triple crown | The horses in this week's list either produced no inking "foals" in Week 965, or ran in the Kentucky Derby but weren't on the initial list. "Breed" any two and name the foal. | H |
| 969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | H |
| 965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | W H H |
| 958 | All's Weller | Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote. | H |
| 936 | Hoho contendere | Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it. | H |
| 914 | Foaling around | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | H H |
| 867 | Back in the saddle | Breed any two of the foals in today's results -- OR one foal with one of the actual horses used in today's entries, and name the grandfoal. | H |
| 863 | It's Post time | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | 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 3 |
| 758 | Wrong Address | Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage. | H |
| 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | H |
| 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. | H |
| 702 | Unreal Facts | Come up with a comically false factoid. | H |
| 547 | Give Us a Bad Name | Take an existing product or business name and pair it with an incompatible one. | H |
| 519 | Hey, Baby, What's Your Sector? | Come up with pickup lines that could be heard only in Washington. | H |
| 472 | Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | H |
| 458 | It's a Setup | Come up with joke setups for any of the provided punch lines. | H |
| 387 | By Jingo | Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. | H |
| 383 | A Kinder, Gender Nation | Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. | 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 |
| 336 | THE "STY"LE INVITATIONAL | Choose any word and emphasize a single part of it, as though you were saying the word out loud with "air quotes" around the key part. Then redefine the word. You cannot alter the spelling of the word. | H |