Today's Jumble Answer
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Hints, one at a time
Welcome back, puzzler. The Daily Jumble for Monday, November 9, 2026 is live: 4 scrambled words to untangle, then their circled letters combine into one cartoon punchline answer. If yesterday's cartoon punchline stumped you, today is a fresh puzzle.
Here's how this page works: the five hints below start with the shape of the puzzle and end with the shape of the punchline, so reveal them one at a time and stop the moment something clicks. The full answer sits in the amber box further down, locked behind a tap. Nothing here reveals itself on its own, not an unscrambled word and not the punchline.
Letters first, punchline shape last. Stop when the joke writes itself.
Drumroll, please…
Daily Jumble Answer for November 9
Spoiler below · tap to revealTROLL
GRIEF
CHUNKY
THRIFT
The cartoon punchline, one tile at a time:
Word 1
Tap a scramble or a tile to reveal it, or show everything at once.
Yesterday's cartoon answer: IT 'WOOD' BE WORTH IT · full breakdown ›
About today's puzzle TURNOFF
Word 1 (TROLL): R, O · Word 2 (GRIEF): F · Word 3 (CHUNKY): U, N · Word 4 (THRIFT): F, T
The final answer is worth 13 points in Scrabble (letters only, before any bonus squares).
1 word totaling 7 letters: 7.
Published Monday, November 9, 2026, with 4 scrambles feeding one cartoon punchline.
Jumble strategy that actually helps
Proven habits from top solvers, useful today and every day.
Suffixes like -ING, -TION, -ED, -ER and -LY appear constantly. Spot those letters in a scramble and try locking them at the end.
Most six-letter Jumble words carry two vowels. Pull all the vowels out of the scramble first, then think of common words that use them together.
The final answer is always built from circled letters, and it's always a pun tied to the cartoon. Reading the caption closely often points straight at the answer's shape.
Words range from straightforward to tricky. Crack the one that clicks first, note its circled letters, and let those confirmed letters narrow the rest.
If your arrangement of the circled letters makes a real phrase that connects to the cartoon, that's the answer, even when it sounds like a groan-worthy joke.
Once you know how many letters each word in the final answer needs, that structure narrows down which arrangement of circled letters actually fits.
Prefer to crack it yourself? Paste any scramble into our word unscrambler and get every word those letters can spell, instantly and spoiler-free for the rest of this page.
How to play Daily Jumble
The rules in full, for anyone arriving without them.
Daily Jumble has run in newspapers since 1954. You unscramble a set of ordinary words, and the letters that land in circled squares get rearranged one more time to answer a pun set up by the day's cartoon.
- 1 Unscramble the short words first
The five and six letter scrambles usually fall out fastest, and every one you solve hands you circled letters.
- 2 Collect the circled letters
Each solved word contributes the letters sitting in its circles. Together they form the raw material for the final answer.
- 3 Read the cartoon and its caption
The caption sets up a pun. Knowing roughly what the joke needs to say narrows the final anagram enormously.
- 4 Rearrange the circled letters into the punchline
The board shows how many words the answer has and how long each one is, so match that shape as you work.
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Four to six scrambled words plus one cartoon punchline
No limit
Daily, alongside the newspaper edition
The punchline is always a pun, never a plain statement. If your rearranged letters spell something sensible but not funny, you have almost certainly mis-solved one of the scrambles above it.
Daily Jumble, answered
Quick answers to the questions we get every day.
What time does the new Jumble come out?
Jumble resets at midnight in your local timezone, wherever you are. Jumble follows the newspaper's schedule, so syndicated print editions can run a day behind the online puzzle.
How do the circled letters work?
Certain letters in each unscrambled word are circled. Pull just those letters out, in order, and rearrange them (they're scrambled too) to spell the words that complete the cartoon's punchline caption.
Can I play past Jumble puzzles?
Jumble doesn't offer an in-app archive the way some other daily games do. Our past answers table below collects the punchlines we have covered so far.
Do the circled letters come out in the right order?
Never, by design. The circled letters are raw material for a second anagram, not a pre-assembled answer, so reading them straight off the page almost always produces nonsense. Solve every scrambled word first, pool the circled letters, then rearrange them against the word lengths shown under the cartoon.
Why is the final answer always a pun?
That's the format: Jumble's cartoon caption sets up a joke, and the circled letters spell out the punchline. It's part word puzzle, part dad joke, by design.
Today's hints for every game
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Past Jumble answers
Recent Jumble final answers from the last two weeks. Use it to check a day you missed or settle an argument about a past punchline. Today's punchline stays blurred until you tap it.
| Date | Puzzle | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 09Today | #1 | TURNOFF |
| Nov 08 | #2 | IT 'WOOD' BE WORTH IT |
| Nov 07 | #3 | RAISE MORE DOUGH |
| Nov 06 | #4 | RAN OUT OF 'ESTEEM' |
| Nov 05 | #5 | SHARPLY DRESSED |
| Nov 04 | #6 | CUT{- }AND{- }DRY |
| Nov 03 | #7 | SO BE IT |
| Nov 02 | #8 | GRAINY |
| Nov 01 | #9 | 'WRECK{- }COLLECTION' |
| Oct 31 | #10 | 'FRIGHT{- }FULL' |
| Oct 30 | #11 | HEAD OFF TO WORK |
| Oct 29 | #12 | ROUGH ESTIMATE |
| Oct 28 | #13 | EXACT CHANGE |
| Oct 27 | #14 | NOT SO HOT |