WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
868 |
Count the ways |
Give us some musings of a technical wonk. |
H |
845 |
Reologisms |
Write a description for any of 50 genuine Loser-created neologisms. |
H H |
806 |
DQ Very Much |
Give us a phrase or sentence that would nip a potential relationship in the bud (or elsewhere). |
H |
789 |
Doctrine in The House? |
State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity. |
H |
757 |
Gorey Thoughts From A to Z |
Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. |
H |
728 |
Tour de Fours IV |
Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters S, A, T and R. |
1 H H |
673 |
Mess With Our Heads |
Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. |
H |
665 |
Your One-in-a-Million |
Coin the millionth word in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion. |
H |
653 |
It's the Eponymy, Stupid |
Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence |
H |
642 |
It's Open Season |
Come up with a brand-new word and its definition. The words must begin with O, P, Q, R or S. |
H |
633 |
Your Secret Here! |
Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). |
2 |
611 |
Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. |
H |
589 |
Hyphen the Terrible (New Edition!) |
Combine the beginning of any multi-syllabic word in this week's Invitational with the end of any other multi-syllabic word in this column (or in this week's Web supplement) to coin a new word, and then define it. |
H |
586 |
God's Will (and Won't) |
Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted us to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----." |
H |
581 |
Evil Things in Store |
Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate. |
H |
578 |
Ask Backwards |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. |
H |
577 |
Teledubbies |
Slightly change the title of a TV show, past or present, and describe it. |
H |
573 |
Thine Ad Goest Here |
Propose biblical and other literary passages, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement. |
2 |
559 |
Your Slogan Here |
Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. |
H |
551 |
Lost in Translation |
Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English. |
H |
514 |
Ask Backwards |
You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? |
H |
481 |
Homonymphomania |
Create a new homonym of any existing word, and define. The new word must be spelled in such a way that is obviously pronounced identically to the original word. |
H |
476 |
Portmanteautapping |
Make a new word by squishing together two existing words. The constituent words must share at least two letters. |
H |
464 |
Cursive Writing |
Come up with a new curse for this millennium. |
H |
449 |
Cut and Pastiche |
Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words. |
H H |
443 |
Sick Humor |
Come up with modern diseases of Washington life. |
5 H |