WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1254 | Inkorporation--a change-one-letter contest | Change the name of a present or past business, store or agency (not just a product) by adding one letter, deleting one letter, transposing two letters or substituting one letter for another. | H |
1105 | A lit obit of fun | Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2014. | H |
965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | H |
939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | H |
932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | H |
922 | A Banner Week | Write entirely new, humorous lyrics to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner”; they can be on any subject. | H 2 |
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 |
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 |
719 | We Har the World | Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States. | H |
714 | Amalgamated Steal | Merge two or more company or product names into a new, ORIGINAL company or product. | H H H |
708 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | 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 |
701 | Untitlement | Here are the covers for what just might be Bob Staake's next four books. What are they called and what are they about? | H |
691 | Haven't Got a Clue | Make all the clues in the provided crossword ooh-clever or at least ah-that's-funny, even the little words. | H |
689 | Busted Play | Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket. | H |
681 | Ticket to Write | Write a jingle for a business (or its product), organization or government agency, set to a Beatles song. | H |
674 | Limerixicon 3 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. | H |