WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1060 | Picture this | Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H 3 |
1045 | Songs for the asking | Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer. | H |
1041 | What have you got to lose? | Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song. | W H |
1036 | Just for liffs | Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term. | H |
1035 | The Empy 500 | Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings. | H |
1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |
1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | H |
1013 | Har monikers | Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer. | H |
1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | H |
1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | 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 |
941 | They don't say! | Give us a quote that a particular person, present or past, real or fictional, sooo wouldn't have said. | 4 |
939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | 2 |
928 | Play feature | Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question. | 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. | 2 |
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 |
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. | H |
910 | Your ad here | Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it. | H 4 |
907 | Naming rite | Come up with a creative, somehow fitting sponsor for some public facility or part of one. | H |
903 | Bill us now | Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill. | H |
898 | Pre-current events | Predict some humorous news event that would happen in 2011. | H |
897 | Catch their drift | Take any sentence from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English. | H 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 |
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 H |