| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1466 | Be invitationally correct | Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer. | H H |
| 1453 | Haven't read it -- mis-subtitle a book | Choose any book title listed on Amazon and misinterpret it by adding a subtitle. | H |
| 1438 | Nothing but the untruth: Fake trivia about the law | Give us some bogus trivia about the law -- lawyers, courts, judges, police, odd laws, terminology, what have you. | H |
| 1408 | Re-Organization | Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it. | H |
| 1356 | Ask Backwards 38 | Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. | 2 |
| 1302 | Ask Backwards 37 | Fifteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. Do one or more, up to a total of 25 A&Q's. | 3 |
| 1284 | Same difference | Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. | H |
| 1272 | The hex files: creative curses | Come up with a creative curse. | L |
| 1249 | Ask Backwards 36 | Choose any of the 15 provided items and follow it with a question that it could humorously answer. | H |
| 1242 | Generation Yux | Give us a "then/now" joke. | H |
| 1192 | Ask Backwards | The 15 provided phrases above are the answers. You provide the questions to as many as you’d like (up to 25 entries total). | H |
| 1138 | Show us your touché | Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead. | H |
| 1116 | Punning in place | Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word. | W |
| 1109 | Fictoids of Columbia | Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. | H |
| 1066 | It's mating season | Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names. | H |
| 1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H |
| 949 | Analogies | Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." | H 2 |
| 930 | We WANT stupid complaints! | Complain comically unreasonably about some innocuous thing appearing in the print Post or on washingtonpost.com over the next week or the previous few days. | W |
| 906 | Your mug here | Give us a new design for the Loser Mug. | H |
| 891 | Mirror, Mirror | Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc. | W T |
| 841 | Food for naught | Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result. | H |
| 805 | Brand Eccchs | Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). | H |
| 778 | Tied Games | Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game. | H |
| 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | H |
| 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | 2 |
| 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | H |
| 497 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | T |