Contest categories
- Best Way to Advance World Peace
- Most Creative Poem about Hotdish, Jell-O or Related Themes (be sure to alert hostess of intent to read)
- Best Performance Art (be sure to alert hostess of intent to perform)
- Best Special Effects (color, electricity, etc.)
- Best Tale Told (fairy tales, books, movies, etc.)
- Best Pun
- Best All-Around Jell-O (fits more than one contest category)
- Best Revolutionary Jell-O (defies the most contest categories)