Jumble Solver

Stuck on a Jumble puzzle? Type each set of letters below and we’ll unscramble them. Then click the tiles that are circled in your puzzle and we’ll work out the final phrase from the letters they spell. More details below.

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3–12 letters

3–12 letters

3–12 letters

3–12 letters

The Finale

The circled letters from the answers above, rearranged into the puzzle’s punchline.

Ringed letters

Click the tiles in the answers above to ring them — the letters collect here automatically.

How many letters are in each word of the answer, separated by spaces — it’s printed on the puzzle page, same as the tiles you’re ringing. Two words of four and six? Type “4 6”. Use a hyphen only where the puzzle prints one: “5-4” for NOVEL-TIES. If the puzzle already prints a small word between the groups instead of ringing it, type that too — “7 the 4” for THROUGH THE NOSE, or “4 2 & 3” for CURL UP & DYE. A printed word costs no ringed letters, so it helps us write and rank the answer rather than find it.

Type the caption or the gist of it. We match its wording against what the candidate words mean, which is how the solver tells BRAKE from BREAK — same letters, same sound, and only the cartoon says which. Ordinary words are ignored, so a few specific ones (“vehicle”, “fortune teller”) do more than a whole sentence.

How to use it

  1. Type the letters of each scramble into its own box, then press Unscramble.
  2. If more than one word is shown, the most common one should already be selected. Try another if the finale doesn’t work out.
  3. In your puzzle, some letters of each answer are circled. Click those same tiles here.
  4. Type the shape of the final answer, the number of letters in each word separated by a space or hyphen, plus any preprinted words. Press Solve the finale when ready.

Typing the answer shape

The shape is the row of blanks printed under the cartoon. Copy the marks the paper prints, because each one tells us something the ringed letters cannot:

  • Spaces separate the words. 4 6 is a four-letter word then a six-letter one.
  • A hyphen where the puzzle prints one. 5-4 gives NOVEL-TIES rather than NOVEL TIES.
  • A small word already printed between the groups, typed as itself. 7 the 4 gives THROUGH THE NOSE. A printed word costs no ringed letters, so telling us about it helps us write and rank the answer rather than find it. Up to four of them.
  • An ampersand, if the puzzle prints one. 4 2 & 3 gives CURL UP & DYE. It is not the same mark as the word “and”, so type whichever one you see.
  • Quotation marks around the whole shape mean the blocks are really one word, cut in two for the joke. "4 4" gives OVER CAST, which is overcast. Only use them if the puzzle prints them.

The cartoon clue box is optional and only breaks ties. Some answers are impossible to separate on letters alone, BRAKE and BREAK being the usual example, and a few words from the caption are enough to tell them apart. Nothing you type there is stored.

Answers come from a curated list of everyday English rather than a tournament word list, which is why most scrambles come back with exactly one answer instead of a pile of obscure ones. More about our word lists.

New to the final puzzle? Read solving the Jumble finale.

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