[Brian Allgar]

We seem to have missed a few Washington Post competitions - perhaps they were of no interest? - but here's the latest one, which may have possibilities.

Speeding up Sports.


Electrify chess pieces so that voltage steadily increases until somebody makes a move.

If you take more than 60 seconds to take your turn in Scrabble, your opponent gets to whack your knuckles with his tile rack.


In a 4G world, who has the patience for 1G sports? When the two-minute warning means that the game should be over in a half-hour or so, you might as well compensate with some other pastimes that we could speed up to fit our ever more frantically ticking clocks. Loser Mike Gips suggests: Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting, as in Mike’s examples above.

E-mail entries to losers@washpost.com or fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Sept. 24; results published Oct. 14 (online Oct. 12). No more than 25 entries per entrant per week. Include “Week 988” in your e-mail subject line or it might be ignored as spam. Include your real name, postal address and phone number with your entry.