| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 319 | REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY | Create an original chiasmus, an ancient literary form in which meaning is derived by pairing two words or phrases, and then reversing their order. | H |
| 156 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Create new word by combining the first half of a hyphenated word with the second half of a hyphenated word. Both words must appear in the same story anywhere in today's Washington Post. Each entry must provide a definition for the newly created word. | L |
| 45 | INVITATION TO A DUAL, II. | Deliver us a Good News-Bad News scenario. | H |
| 36 | SCAM ON WRY | Come up with a prank you can play, for fun, profit, or deliverance of a well-needed comeuppance. | H |
| 35 | LIGHT AT THE END? | Tell the federal government what it should do with the 14-mile-long, 15-foot-diameter sausage-shaped tunnel it dug near Waxahachie, Tex., for the Superconducting Super Collider project that was scrapped by Congress last week. | H |
| 34 | INSPECT A GADGET | What do these machines do? | H |
| 31 | INVITATION TO A DUAL | Divide the world into two types of people. | H |
| 24 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Those are the answers. What are the questions? | A A |
| 21 | A SO-SO CONTEST | Describe somebody--or something--through exaggerated comparison. | H |
| 17 | REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM | Come up with an easy way to reduce the federal deficit, in 20 words or fewer. | H |
| 13 | ANAGRAMS = A MAN'S RAG | Come up with a funny anagram for the name of a famous person or institution. All letters in the name must be used, and no letters may be left over. | H H |