| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 H |
| 214 | ASK BACKWARDS IX | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 209 | WE NEED SOME SEASONING | Come up with the first signs of spring in Washington. | W H H H |
| 192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | W |
| 179 | A CLOCKWORK, UM, UM, ... ER | Write single sentences containing no fewer than three examples of rhyming slang. | W |
| 174 | THE EDGE OF MIGHT | Complete any of the four provided "you might" phrases. | 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. | H |
| 171 | ON SECOND THOUGHT | Ideas that never got off the drawing board, for good reason. | H H |
| 170 | THE ELEMENTS OF SMILE | Why are these people smiling? | H |
| 169 | DIFF'RENT JOKES | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H |
| 165 | WHEEL OF TORTURE | Complete any of the provided "Wheel of Fortune" phrases. | H H |
| 164 | MEAN MEANINGS | Translate things politicians say into what they really mean. | H |
| 163 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the list of all 1996 Triple Crown nominees, couple up any two of them, and propose an appropriate name for their hypothetical foal. The foal's name must fit in no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | H H H 3 |
| 162 | MAY WE HAVE YOUR PRETENSION, PLEASE? | Come up with the most pretentious original sentence possible. | W H |
| 161 | CAPITOL MISTAKES | Come up with very, very bad advice for first-time visitors to Washington. | H |
| 155 | COMPARISON SHOPPING | Explain the difference between any two of the above items. | H |
| 154 | ENTER LAUGHING | Make up a knock-knock joke. The subject of the third line must be something crude, silly, or profound. | L |
| 152 | WE ARE CURIOUS (YELLOW) | Take any headline in today's Washington Post and rewrite it in tabloid fashion so the story seems a lot more scandalous and/or lurid than it is. | H |
| 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | H |
| 149 | O, NO! | Come up with a palindrome, a line that reads the same backward and forward, and then use it as a punchline to a joke. | L H H H H 2 |
| 147 | JUST FOR LIFFS | Come up with original liffs, which identify a familiar, tantalizing concept without a word to define it, and pairs it with a perfectly good but underutilized word that just loafs around on maps and street signs. | H H H H 2 |
| 145 | LOOIE, LOOIE | Come up with paired, themed ladies' room and men's room signs for various types of public places. | H H |
| 140 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY? | Come up with "What-If" scenarios and logical outcomes. | H |
| 139 | EMPLOYMENT LINES | Come up with jobs that make even your crummy job seem good. | H |
| 136 | NEW END IN SIGHT | Come up with new endings to make literary classics more suitable for Hollywood in the 1990s. | H |
| 135 | JERRY-BUILT SOLUTIONS | Come up with Seinfeld-isms: whiny, quirky musings on little questions of life. | H 1 |
| 133 | LIKE, WOW. | Come up with funny analogies. | H |
| 132 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF OUR SHIRTS. | What should our loser's T-shirt say on the back? Your goal is to somehow capture the spirit of the contest. | H H H H |
| 131 | DROODLEYSQUAT | Come up with "droodles," simple geometric drawings with funny explanations. | H |
| 130 | NICELY STATED | Create a fictional city to be humorously paired with a real state abbreviation. | W A |
| 129 | REMAKE US HAPPY | Come up with alternative story lines to movie titles, new or old. | H |
| 125 | ASK BACKWARD VI | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |