| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 992 | Mittsterpiece Theatre | Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen. | H |
| 618 | Of D.C. I Sing | Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. | H |
| 599 | So What's the News? | Tell us what the illustrated events are. | H |
| 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | H |
| 574 | Boor Us Silly | Come up with some unwise attempts at humor--one either likely to backfire or to create other unpleasant consequences. | H |
| 573 | Thine Ad Goest Here | Propose biblical and other literary passages, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement. | 3 |
| 507 | Crocktails | Come up with a drink named for something or someone associated with Washington and describe the drink. | H |
| 474 | Alphabettering | Create a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet at least once but that would never be heard on the politically correct, genteel, rarified air of NPR. | H |
| 472 | Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | H H |
| 469 | Playing Check-In | Suggest appropriate hotel check-in names for any celebrities, past or present, living or dead. | H |
| 467 | Get Your But in Here | Produce a line that fits this structure: (Real thing based upon current events) is (word or phrase suggesting some quality) but (other word or phrase suggesting a dissimilar or incompatible quality), like (funny analogy). | H |
| 437 | The Telegraph Poll | Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. | H |
| 422 | Taught Language | Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. | H H |
| 409 | Nice Job, if You Get It | Take anything that might need its image enhanced and rename it in a way the keeps its essential identity, but makes it seem nicer. | W H |
| 370 | No End in Sight | Write the beginnings of sentences you don't want to hear the end of. | H H |
| 343 | Eastwood Ho. | Create a Good-Bad-Ugly progression. | H H |
| 245 | LIKE FUN | Complete any of the provided "A is like B because" sentences. | H |
| 227 | WILD PITCHES | Come up worthy successors to Joe Camel. Name the product, and describe the totally inappropriate cartoon character that would be created to represent it. | H |
| 183 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG II | Create hawkers' rhymes for modern-day occupations like lobbyists, lawyers, talk show hosts, actuaries, etc., at a maximum of four lines. It must contain at least one rhyme. | 4 |
| 177 | SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE | Tell us what any of the provided sounds are. | H |
| 171 | ON SECOND THOUGHT | Ideas that never got off the drawing board, for good reason. | H |
| 154 | ENTER LAUGHING | Make up a knock-knock joke. The subject of the third line must be something crude, silly, or profound. | H |
| 153 | STUMP US | Complete this sentence, "I should be elected President of the United States because. . ." and launch your campaign. | I H |
| 132 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF OUR SHIRTS. | What should our loser's T-shirt say on the back? Your goal is to somehow capture the spirit of the contest. | 2 |
| 128 | LIKE, DUH | Come up with snappy answers to stupid questions. | H 2 |
| 123 | WHY IS POOP FUNNY? | Come up with creative answers to any of the five questions above that might be asked by a 5-year-old. | H |
| 122 | THE UNKINDEST CUTE OF ALL | Come up with a new story line for "Peanuts", some plot development or new character that will put the strip back on the road to relevance. | I |
| 118 | WEAK 118 | Take any photo caption or headline appearing anywhere in today's Post and alter its meaning by adding, deleting, or changing one letter. | H |
| 116 | WRITE PURE POETRY | Write a complete sentence using only the letters contained on the top row of a typewriter. Alternatively, you can use the letters of the first four lines of the standard eye chart. | H |
| 108 | NEAR MISSES | Come up with the first drafts of great lines in history, entertainment or literature. | L |
| 104 | HERE, DOGGEREL | Create poems so bad they thud. The first line must be a name. The second line can be as long or as short as you wish. The third line must sound the same as the first line, using the name as a verb or some other part of speech. | H |
| 102 | HELP! I'M A PRISONER IN THIS CONTEST | Come up with fortune cookie messages that you would love to see, but never will. | H |
| 42 | HEY, IT COULD BE WORSE | There are worse things in life than the Washington Redskins. Just tell us what they are. | 4 |
| 40 | NOT WRONG. JUST INCORRECT. | What's next on the political correctness agenda? | H |
| 34 | INSPECT A GADGET | What do these machines do? | H H 6 |
| 32 | FATAL ART ATTACK | In 50 words or fewer, describe a performance art concept that might get public funding. Winners will be audacious enough to seem like art, but pretentious enough to seem to have a social "message. | 4 |
| 29 | AD NAUSEAM | Come up with an unfortunate slogan for any real product, service, or organization. | 3 |
| 26 | CASTING ABOUT FOR AN IDEA | Name a political person (past or present) and the TV or movie role in which he or she could have been cast. | 2 |