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Every puzzle below includes clues, solutions, word meanings, and the cartoon answer.
The Daily Jumble is solved in two stages. First you unscramble each word. Then you rearrange the circled letters from those answers to complete the cartoon’s caption. Only the circled letters feed the final answer, so every word you can’t solve leaves a gap in the caption.
| Puzzle | Scrambled Words | Word Lengths |
|---|---|---|
| Monday to Saturday | 4 | 5, 5, 6, 6 |
| Sunday | 6 | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
We counted these formats from our own archive. All 26 Monday-to-Saturday puzzles from August 29 to September 28, 2026 used two 5-letter words followed by two 6-letter words. Every Sunday puzzle we checked used six 6-letter words: the five Sundays in that window, plus September 7, 2025. The 5-letter words come first in weekday puzzles, which makes them the natural place to start.
The circled letters don’t split evenly across the words. On September 26, 2026, LINEN gave three circled letters, SLIMY two, CHARGE three and LESSON three. Those 11 letters spelled the cartoon answer, MEANINGLESS.
The answer can be a single word, like HITCHED on September 28, 2026. It can also be a phrase, often a pun. On March 9, 2026, OWL BY ITSELF played on “all by itself.” The blanks under the caption tell you how many words the answer has and how long each one is. That lets you test possible splits of the circled letters before you’ve solved every clue.
Yes. Jumble is created by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek and syndicated by Tribune Content Agency, so every newspaper that carries it prints the same scrambled words, the same cartoon and the same final answer. One set of answers covers every paper. Searching for the “Chicago Tribune Jumble” or the “Newsday Jumble” leads to the same puzzle under a different masthead.
If the scrambled words in your paper don’t match the ones on this page, check the date first. A mismatch means you’re looking at a different day’s puzzle, and the archive above has every date from the last 30 days.
A new Jumble runs every day of the week, Sundays included. The answers at the top of this page switch to the new puzzle at between 12:00 AM Eastern Time (Midnight) and 7:00 AM Eastern Time each day. Until then, the box still shows the previous day’s puzzle, so check the date above the scrambled words before you reveal anything.
If your paper already shows a new puzzle and this page doesn’t yet, type the scrambled letters into the Jumble Solver to solve them yourself, then come back for the cartoon answer.
The Sunday Jumble has six scrambled words instead of four, and every Sunday puzzle in our archive used six 6-letter words, with no 5-letter words to start on. On a Sunday, the box at the top of this page shows all six of today’s Sunday Jumble answers.
The most recent Sunday puzzle was September 27, 2026: ULSSYT, RBDTEO, OWPTUN, UIYFPR, DBOHLE and CSSOOM. Its words, meanings and cartoon answer are on the September 27 Sunday Jumble answers page, and every other Sunday in the last 30 days is marked with a Sunday badge in the archive above.
Fast Jumble solvers don’t shuffle letters at random. They cut down the number of possible arrangements before they start, and each tip below does that, with an example from a real puzzle in our archive.
The four scrambled words were NNELI, LYSMI, GHRECA and ELSNSO, which solve to LINEN, SLIMY, CHARGE and LESSON.
The circled letters from those answers were I, E, N from LINEN; L, M from SLIMY; A, G, E from CHARGE; and S, S, N from LESSON. That gives 11 letters for a caption that read “Owning a dictionary without any pages is ___”, with 11 blanks in a single word.
A dictionary with no pages has nothing to define, which points to a word about meaning. Pull out L, E, S, S to make LESS, and the remaining M, E, A, N, I, N, G spell MEANING. The answer is MEANINGLESS.
Stuck on a word from today’s puzzle? Type the letters into our Jumble Solver to solve that one word without seeing the rest.
The Jumble is created by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek and syndicated to newspapers by Tribune Content Agency, which owns the Jumble trademark. The puzzle is older than their work on it: Martin Naydel created it in 1954 under the name Scramble, and today it runs as Jumble: That Scrambled Word Game. Because a single syndicate distributes it, every paper that carries the Jumble prints the same puzzle, which is why the answers on this page work for all of them.
Use the arrows on the calendar at the top of this page to go back month by month and pick any date. Our answer pages go back well past the last 30 days, including puzzles like March 9, 2026 and the September 7, 2025 Sunday Jumble.
We don’t publish printable copies of the puzzle, because the Jumble itself belongs to Tribune Content Agency. To print it, use the print or digital edition of a newspaper that carries it, such as the papers listed above.
Jeff Knurek has drawn the Jumble cartoon since 2008, making him only the second artist to draw it. He creates the puzzle with David L. Hoyt.
Just Jumble is a Jumble app for iPhone and iPad with thousands of puzzles created by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek, and it’s the easiest way to play Jumble puzzles on your phone. The answers on this page are for the daily newspaper Jumble, not the puzzles inside the app.
Yes. Our Jumble Solver is free with no sign-up, and you can use it on one scrambled word without seeing the rest of the puzzle.
Ali is a seasoned Daily Jumble enthusiast who has built various jumble tools like the jumble solver, and the jumble answer daily hint.