Jumble Solver
Solve the whole puzzle in one go: type every scrambled word, get each answer, then feed in the circled letters for the final pun.
Solving the Jumble, step by step
- Unscramble the four words. Each uses every letter exactly once — the solver above does all four together.
- Copy the circled letters. The newspaper grid marks certain squares in each answer.
- Read the cartoon's caption. The final answer is a pun on it, and the blanks show how many words and letters it has.
- Solve the final jumble. For a one-word answer, type the circled letters here. For two words, use the anagram solver's two-word search.
Doing it in your head
Jumble words are always everyday English, five or six letters long, so a few habits go a long way:
- Try common endings first: -ER, -LE, -ED, -Y, -ING.
- Put the rarest letter where it usually lives: J, Q and Z at the start, Y and X at the end.
- Alternate vowels and consonants: most short English words do.
For a jumble with extra letters to spare, the word unscrambler shows shorter words too.
Questions players ask
How do I solve a Jumble puzzle with this?
Type each scrambled word on its own line (or separated by spaces) and press Solve. Every jumble is unscrambled to words that use all of its letters. Then take the circled letters from your answers and type them in as one more jumble to solve the final answer.
Why does a jumble have more than one answer?
Some letter sets form several words, like ALERT, ALTER and LATER. The Jumble newspaper puzzle is designed to have one answer, which is usually the everyday word shown first; the circled letters then have to work in the final puzzle, which settles ties.
Can it solve the final phrase with a missing word count?
For a final answer that is two words, type the circled letters into the anagram solver, which also finds two-word anagrams from everyday English.
Does it use blanks or unknown letters?
Add ? for a letter you can't read. Each ? can be any letter.