WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1135 | The meter's running | Suggest actions in daily life that should require a time limit -- maximum or minimum -- and come with an appropriate penalty for running over (or under). | H |
925 | A remeaning task | Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O. | H |
904 | We move on back | Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word. | H H |
871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | H |
864 | Oonerspisms | Spoonerize a single word or a name by transposing different part of the word (more than two adjacent letters), and define the resultant new term. | H |
843 | Prefrains | Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. | 4 |
828 | Inhuman Puns | Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it. | H H |
826 | The Inside Word | Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word. | L |
822 | For Real Folks | Suggest some attractions for a Festival of Real American Folklife. | H 3 |
819 | Art Re-View | These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they? | H 4 |
815 | Wittecisms | Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E. | H |
808 | Take Us At Our Words | Create a humorous poem or other writing using only the words contained in this week's Style Invitational column or results. | H |
800 | Compairison | Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result. | H |
796 | Sincerest Flattery | Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote. | H |
439 | No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | H |