Style Invitational
Style Invitational
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Style Invitational Week 1022: Nothing’s beyond compare;  and a do-oeuvre of  neologisms
What’s the difference between eggplant parmigiana and a vacation in Toledo? You tell us.
 
Style Invitational Week 1021: Nice sets of racks — ScrabbleGram neologisms
(The Washington Post, May 9, 2013; 1:33 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1020: Rerun for the roses: use winning ‘foals’ to make ‘grandfoals’
(The Washington Post, May 2, 2013; 12:33 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1019: What a turnoff!
(The Washington Post, April 25, 2013; 1:53 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1018: Reologisms — we look for deeper meaning (or meaner meaning)
(The Washington Post, April 18, 2013; 11:43 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1017: Buy a vowel — ONE vowel
(The Washington Post, April 11, 2013; 4:03 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1016: Foaling around, plus the Losing limericks on the news
(The Washington Post, April 4, 2013; 4:59 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1015: Faux re mi — musical fictoids, plus another potpourri
(The Washington Post, March 28, 2013; 3:40 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1014: Join now — combine parts of two words to make a new one
(The Washington Post, March 21, 2013; 5:02 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1013: The lame(?) game of the name
(The Washington Post, March 14, 2013; 6:02 PM)
 
Week 1012: The news at 5 — write some current-events limericks
(The Washington Post, March 7, 2013; 2:13 PM)
 
The art (or ‘art’) of the Invitational
(The Washington Post, March 1, 2013; 4:07 AM)
 
Pun and ink: 38 gems sifted from 500 contests
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:23 PM)
 
They’re slaying our song: It’s parody time
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:15 PM)
 
The Invite goes viral (mostly anonymously)
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:15 PM)
 
Score 1 for the Style Invitational: 20 Years of our irreverent humor/wordplay contest
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:04 PM)
 
Style Invitational Losers’ league of their own
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:03 PM)
 
We give you our words: The neologisms
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:02 PM)
 
Staying power: The long-running ‘foal’ name and ‘joint legislation’ contests
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:02 PM)
 
High fives: The limericks
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:01 PM)
 
Some reward! The Invitational’s coolest prizes
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 7:00 PM)
 
Week 1011: Try your hand at a decade's worth of the Style Invitational’s greatest hits
(The Washington Post, February 28, 2013; 6:58 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1010: A good old caption contest, and the crossword clues
(The Washington Post, February 21, 2013; 5:03 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1009: What’s in a name, plus the winning super- (and not-so-super-) heroes
(The Washington Post, February 14, 2013; 4:29 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1008: Rejigger a movie title; plus winning ‘joint legislation’
(The Washington Post, February 7, 2013; 12:41 PM)
 
Style Invitational: As we primp for our 20th anniversary, we bring out the dead (poems)
(The Washington Post, January 31, 2013; 2:58 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1007: We give you the crossword, you give us the clues
(The Washington Post, January 24, 2013; 2:41 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1006: It’s a ... a ... — Create a new superhero
(The Washington Post, January 17, 2013; 12:48 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1005: Send us the bill — our congressional ‘joint legislation’ contest
(The Washington Post, January 10, 2013; 2:10 PM)
 
Week 1004: Dead Letters — write a funny verse about someone who died in 2012; plus our change-a-letter winners
(The Washington Post, January 3, 2013; 11:11 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1003: Just do it: Repurpose an ad slogan; plus a sampling of this year’s contests
(The Washington Post, December 27, 2012; 6:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1002: Ring out the OED by repurposing an obscure word
(The Washington Post, December 20, 2012; 12:45 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 1001: In short, send us a new acronym. Plus winning Unworthy Causes.
(The Washington Post, December 13, 2012; 6:00 PM)
 
It’s Style Invitational Week 1000! And with our 4 digits, 7 letters in a classic contest
(The Washington Post, December 6, 2012; 2:56 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 999: A drectrospective — enter any of the year’s contests
(The Washington Post, November 29, 2012; 1:25 PM)
 
Links to Weeks 946-951 of The Style Invitational
(The Washington Post, November 29, 2012; 3:21 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 998: There ought to be your law — plus our winning new magnets
(The Washington Post, November 21, 2012; 6:46 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 997: Unworthy causes, plus the Invite’s own Epic Rap Battles of History
(The Washington Post, November 15, 2012; 4:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 996: A Life-Time opportunity — combine two magazines
(The Washington Post, November 8, 2012; 1:58 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 995: Ask Backwards; plus the victorious V-O-T-E neologisms
(The Washington Post, November 1, 2012; 4:30 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 994: Stick it to us with a new Loser Magnet
(The Washington Post, October 25, 2012; 12:26 AM)
 
Style Invitational Week 993: Write some ‘versus’ verses as ‘epic rap battles’
(The Washington Post, October 18, 2012; 3:20 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 992: Mittsterpiece Theatre — How would PBS shows adapt to commercial TV?
(The Washington Post, October 11, 2012; 4:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 991: Tour de Fours IX: V-O-T-E now; and those messed-with heads
(The Washington Post, October 4, 2012; 4:30 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 990: Indecent relations — jokes about two people with the same last name
(The Washington Post, September 27, 2012; 4:10 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 989: Moonlighting madness — combine two professions
(The Washington Post, September 20, 2012; 3:43 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 988: A faster break — how to speed up sports
(The Washington Post, September 13, 2012; 6:00 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 987: Bank shots — reinterpret a Post headline by adding a ‘bank head’
(The Washington Post, September 6, 2012; 7:01 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 986: Hear here? A homophone contest; winning song parodies
(The Washington Post, August 30, 2012; 1:04 PM)
 
Style Invitational Week 985: What art art thou — here’s the cartoon; what’s the contest?
(The Washington Post, August 23, 2012; 2:51 PM)