Readers get to vote for their fave entries in The Style Invitational's "Ask Backwards" contest. And the Empress thanks the Loser Community and signs off.
The Czar and Empress bid farewell to the weekly humor/wordplay contest with a fan-nominated "greatest hits" selection from the past 29 years.
The Empress of The Style Invitational says a few words in the Invite's penultimate week.
No new contest in The Style Invitational's penultimate week. Plus winning greeting-card rhymes for non-greeting-card occasions.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's Questionable Journalism contest and alphabetic-writing results.
A favorite: Choose a sentence from The Post or elsewhere and give us a funny question it could answer. Plus 26 words beginning with 26 different letters.
The Empress of The Style Invitational talks about this week's "sister cities" contest and "air quote" results.
In this wordplay contest, name a "joint venture" that two or more towns in Europe might undertake. Plus winning "air quotes" -- words inside other words.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's Ask Backwards contest and the results of the contest for one-vowel poems.
It's the 41st running of our "Jeopardy!"-adjacent contest: Here are the answers. What are the questions? Plus winning poems using one vowel.
The Empress of The Style Invitational discusses this week's contest for rhymes for non-greeting-card events, and the results of the movie-mashup contest..
This week's contest: Write a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. And the winning combinations of two one-word movie titles to make a new movie.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's alphabet-writing contest and winning neologisms from the Tour de Fours contest.
Write a 26-word sentence/other writing whose words each start with a different letter – except we're fudging the X. Plus winning neologisms.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's state-slogan results and new "air quotes" contest.
Find a word inside another word or name — no, not T"rump" — then redefine the original word. Plus winners of our special contest for state slogans.
The Empress of The Style Invitational ruminates (ewww!) over this week's new "univocalic" contest and new-word-poem results.
The contest: Write a humorous poem that uses only one of the vowels A, E, I, O and U throughout. Plus winning poems using new dictionary terms.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's new contest and results.
In this week's contest, combine the names of two one-word movies to make a new one. Plus the winners of our "sister cities" contest.
The Style Invitational is a humor/wordplay contest through which we seek to bring a variety of clever, timely, irreverent humor every week to the readers of The Washington Post.
