| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1451 | Could have said it worse ourselves | Give us a humorously bad "first draft" of a famous line from history, literature or entertainment. | H |
| 1416 | The Year in Redo, Part 2 | Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412. | H |
| 1399 | The lie-zy days of summer | Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer. | H H |
| 1322 | Back to the drawing board | Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out. | H |
| 1272 | The hex files: creative curses | Come up with a creative curse. | 4 |
| 1268 | Playing pinocchio | Tell us some humorously bogus trivia about the news media or the publishing or broadcasting industries. | H |
| 1017 | Vowel play | Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout. | H |
| 956 | Give us some bad ideas | Finish any of the provided "You know" phrases. | W |
| 684 | Backtricking | Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word. | H |
| 576 | Well, Excuuuuse Us! | Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. | H |
| 519 | Hey, Baby, What's Your Sector? | Come up with pickup lines that could be heard only in Washington. | H |
| 492 | Cheap Tricks | Come up with extreme cost-conserving measures for these difficult economic times. | H |
| 487 | Eee! Rotica | Come with a passage in a novel that ineptly describes hanky-panky. | H |
| 413 | Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | H |
| 394 | Life in the Blurbs | Come up with a blurb used to sell a real or imagined book or movie that would be likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. | H |
| 391 | Spinning Out of Control | Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. | H |
| 376 | Apply Yourself | Supply bad openings to college application biographies. | H |
| 367 | Future Schlock | Come up with a line that will surely not appear in an upcoming work. | H |
| 283 | UH-OH | Come up with "uh-oh" lines, statements that occur in the middle of a seemingly benign speech or conversation, suddenly alerting the listener that he is about to hear some bad news. | H |
| 245 | LIKE FUN | Complete any of the provided "A is like B because" sentences. | H |
| 242 | SACRED COW PIES | Take cheap shots at sacred institutions only, places and things that are so noble and wholesome they are beyond reproach, from among the items provided. | H |
| 241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | H |
| 233 | SEEKING PARODY | Take any paragraph appearing on Page A1 of today's Washington Post, and rewrite it in the style of any famous writer. | 2 |
| 213 | A SIN OF THE TIMES | Submit campaign or other political practices that would be illegal and/or unethical. | H |
| 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | H |
| 46 | WE WANT STUPID ENTRIES ONLY | Make up a sentence that, were it not for this contest, would never be uttered. | H |