Style Invitational
Style Invitational
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Style Invitational Week 983:  Limerixicon IX, plus the winning ‘reologisms’
Style Invitational contest Week 983: Our annual Limerixicon — limericks featuring dictionary words — plus more winning neologisms.
 
Style Invitational Week 982: Take a one-line head start in our song parody contest
(The Washington Post, August 2, 2012; 3:24 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 981: We’re feeling testy — make up an exam question for a job
(The Washington Post, July 26, 2012; 6:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 977 results: Twisting the tongues of Google Translate
(The Washington Post, July 19, 2012; 3:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 980: Def Jam — we give the neologism, you give the meaning
(The Washington Post, July 14, 2012; 5:15 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 979: A ploy to annoy
(The Washington Post, July 5, 2012; 2:43 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 978: A reason to rhyme the news, plus the movie/book limericks
(The Washington Post, June 28, 2012; 7:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 977: Fun with Google Translate, 8 years later
(The Washington Post, June 21, 2012; 12:29 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 976: Join now — it’s our build-a-neologism contest
(The Washington Post, June 14, 2012; 8:24 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 975: Debunk a ‘Sixth Myth’ of The Post’s ‘5 Myths’
(The Washington Post, June 7, 2012; 1:32 PM)
 
Getting your ’rick rolling: What we’re looking for in a Style Invitational limerick
(The Washington Post, June 3, 2012; 1:36 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 974: Eat our dust — A limerick contest to honor the contest we outlasted
(The Washington Post, May 31, 2012; 9:41 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 973: The third leg of our ‘foal’ Triple Crown
(The Washington Post, May 24, 2012; 8:29 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 972: Trends and Neighbors — compare or contrast two ‘trending topics’
(The Washington Post, May 19, 2012; 11:49 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 971: Double booking — put two books under one cover
(The Washington Post, May 10, 2012; 8:25 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 970: Couple it — rhyme a line of poetry with your own, funnier line
(The Washington Post, May 4, 2012; 12:08 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 969: This year’s winning ‘foals,’ and now it’s the next generation
(The Washington Post, April 26, 2012; 10:50 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 968: Grant us a stupid academic study; and the winning Grossery Bag
(The Washington Post, April 19, 2012; 11:35 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 967: The Overlap Dance II — Portmanteau Phrases
(The Washington Post, April 13, 2012; 12:02 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 966: Call it Inkremental Change
(The Washington Post, April 6, 2012; 1:25 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 965: Foaling Around — our famous ‘breed’-the-horses contest
(The Washington Post, March 30, 2012; 2:39 AM)
 
Week 964: The Grossery Bag — our new runner-up prize — needs a design
(The Washington Post, March 23, 2012; 12:14 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 963: The overlap dance: ‘Before & After’ names
(The Washington Post, March 16, 2012; 12:38 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 962: Be a smart-ask; and the wellest wellerisms
(The Washington Post, March 8, 2012; 10:02 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 961: The end of our rhops — it’s the anti-rhopalic
(The Washington Post, March 2, 2012; 2:38 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 960: Raving reviews for Amazon.com
(The Washington Post, February 24, 2012; 1:11 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 959: Out of Network — move a TV show to another channel
(The Washington Post, February 16, 2012; 10:51 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 958: Do weller with wellerisms
(The Washington Post, February 9, 2012; 11:40 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 957: Ups & downs with rhopalic sentences
(The Washington Post, February 2, 2012; 5:06 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 956: Looking for a few ‘bad’ scenarios; plus the winning obit poems
(The Washington Post, January 26, 2012; 10:55 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 955: Twits’ Twist — pair a word and its anagram
(The Washington Post, January 20, 2012; 5:15 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 954: Bring on the ‘fight’ jokes; and some winning chutzpah
(The Washington Post, January 13, 2012; 12:52 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 953: Clue Us In, the backward crossword; plus the winning analogies
(The Washington Post, January 6, 2012; 6:00 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 952: Dead Letters — write us an obit poem
(The Washington Post, December 30, 2011; 12:06 AM)
 
Another Style Invitational neologism contest (sort of): Week 951: Double over with laughter
(The Washington Post, December 23, 2011; 1:26 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 950: Da noiv! Show us some chutzpah.
(The Washington Post, December 16, 2011; 6:30 AM)
 
The Motley Food: Winners of the 2011 Style Invitational edible-art contest
(The Washington Post, December 16, 2011; 1:47 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 949: An ‘a is to b’ analogy contest, and devilish definitions
(The Washington Post, December 9, 2011; 3:31 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 948: Look back in Inker: Enter one of our previous contests
(The Washington Post, December 1, 2011; 10:00 PM)
 
Links to Style Invitational contest Weeks 891-905
(The Washington Post, December 2, 2011; 1:09 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 947: Tour de Fours VIII — Make words with N-O-E-L
(The Washington Post, November 25, 2011; 4:18 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 946: Another round of Bierce — a snarky-definition contest
(The Washington Post, November 18, 2011; 6:00 AM)
 
The first round of ‘Another Round’: The results of Week CXII (2002)
(The Washington Post, November 18, 2011; 2:33 AM)
 
Week 945: Laugh-baked ideas — the Style Invitational edible-art contest
(The Washington Post, November 11, 2011; 5:38 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 944: ‘Is it just me, or ...?’ And the winning ‘typo’ headlines
(The Washington Post, November 4, 2011; 6:55 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 943: Ask Backwards — a jokey ‘Jeopardy’; plus movie mashups
(The Washington Post, October 28, 2011; 8:00 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 942: A singular contest — there’s only one entry; plus improved Edward Lear limericks
(The Washington Post, October 21, 2011; 8:00 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 941: They don’t say — things you’d never hear from certain people; and captions for Bob Staake pictures
(The Washington Post, October 14, 2011; 8:00 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 940: Put a ‘typo’ in a Washington Post headline, plus winning neologisms based on foreign terms
(The Washington Post, October 7, 2011; 4:03 AM)
 
The first ‘Mash’: The winning combined movie titles from Style Invitational Week 610
(The Washington Post, September 30, 2011; 7:58 AM)