The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's Wordle-adjacent contest and winnings Commanders song, and shares a salute to her predecessor, Gene Weingarten, that she contributed to a tribute book.
Write a phrase of 5-letter words that works as a Wordle and define it. Plus winning cheers for the Commanders and other D.C. institutions.
Write a funny poem using only words from a list of the 1,000 most common words. Plus winning Hyphen the Terrible neologisms.
The Style Invitational Empress shares some classic "reviews" of everyday products and discusses this week's new contest and road-sign results.
Write funny reviews for sandwich bread, a shoehorn, duct tape and more. Plus winning messages for road signs and barbecue marquees.
The Empress of The Style Invitational discusses this week's Googlenopes/Googleyups contest and the results of the contest for fake financial trivia.
This week's contest: Show us a Googlenope, a phrase that yields no matches when you search. (Or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does.) Plus winning fake trivia about money and finance.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's contest for a funny Washington Commanders song or cheer.
This week's contest: Write a song for D.C.'s newly renamed football team, the Washington Commanders. Plus winning BIDE neologisms.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's Hyphen the Terrible neologism contest, and the results of another new-word challenge.
This week's contest: Make a new word by combining parts of hyphenated terms. Plus winning 'prefix' neologisms.
The Empress of The Style Invitational discusses this week’s road sign contest and inking (and non-inking) obit poems.
This week's contest: Make a funny road sign with an online generator. Plus poems for ex-people of 2021.
The Empress of The Style Invitational discusses this week's fictoid contest and retrospective winners.
This week, send us fake trivia about money and the financial system. And see new material from 24 of last year's contests.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's retrospective results and new Tour de Fours neologism contest.
Our annual neologism contest. Plus Part 1 of our Kook’s Tour retrospective.
The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's "prefix" contest and faux-corrections results.
Put a “prefix” on a name or phrase. Plus fun with newspaper corrections.
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.
