Type the jumbled letters from the puzzle and we’ll unscramble them, longest word first. Use ? for a blank.
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The newspaper Jumble hands you a row of scrambled letters and asks you to spell the ordinary word hiding inside. Type those letters here and the solver unscrambles them against a dictionary of 281,649 words, so a puzzle that has you stumped over morning coffee resolves in seconds. It works the same way for the kids' Jumble, the Sunday variant and every syndicated version in between.
Enter one scrambled word at a time exactly as it is printed — order does not matter, since the solver tries every arrangement. If a letter is unclear, drop in a ? or * as a wildcard and it will fill the gap. Solve each of the puzzle's words in turn, then move on to the cartoon.
Each Jumble word has one intended solution that uses all of its letters, so results are sorted with the longest word first. In practice the top row is your answer nearly every time. The shorter words underneath are there for the rare puzzle with more than one valid reading, and for anyone who just enjoys seeing what else the letters can spell.
Once you have solved the individual words, the Jumble circles certain letters. Gather every circled letter, type them in together, and the solver rearranges them into the pun that completes the cartoon's caption. Because that final answer is often a two-word phrase, our multi-word anagram solver is the perfect companion when the caption clearly needs more than one word.
The Jumble is one of many letter puzzles you can crack the same way. For puzzle-book scrambles and worksheets, use the word scramble solver; to see every word a pile of letters can make, try the general word unscrambler; and for playful rearrangements of a word or name, reach for the anagram generator.
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