Does this page show today's Jumble answer?

No. We don't publish, scrape or archive the current day's puzzle. You type in the scrambled letters you're looking at and the solver works them out. That way the tool keeps working for any Jumble, from any newspaper or app, on any date.

Can I solve more than one Jumble word at once?

Yes. Add a row for each scrambled word in the puzzle and press Solve. Every row is worked out independently, so a four-word Jumble only takes one pass.

What do I do with the circled letters?

Type them into the circled letters box. Those letters form the final answer or punchline of the puzzle, so they are usually solved last, once the four main words are done.

How many letters can I enter?

Up to 12 letters per word, and up to 8 words per puzzle. Standard Jumble words are five to seven letters, so that covers the usual puzzle with room to spare.

Does the solver handle repeated letters?

Yes. The letters you type are counted exactly, so a result only qualifies if it uses the same letters in the same quantities. If your word has two Es, every answer shown also has two Es.

Is it free, and do I need to sign up?

It is free and there is no sign-up. The whole solver runs in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere and it keeps working if your connection drops.

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Jumble Solver

Type the scrambled words from your Jumble puzzle — one row each — and we'll unscramble them all at once. Then drop the circled letters in and we'll work out the final answer.

Scrambled words from the puzzle

Letters can go in any order — type them exactly as they appear. Up to 12 letters per word, 8 words per puzzle.

Circled letters (the final answer)

What a Jumble puzzle is actually asking

A Jumble prints four to six ordinary words with their letters shuffled — you unscramble each one. That part is a straightforward anagram task, just with a specific answer rather than a list of possibilities.

The last step is the one people get stuck on. Each solved word has one or two letters circled; read together, those circled letters spell the punchline. Because the final answer depends on the four main words being right, it's usually the last thing you can solve — which is why the solver above keeps it in a separate box.

How to unscramble a Jumble word faster

Hunt for common endings first. -ING, -ED, -ER, -EST, -TION and -LY cover a huge share of puzzle words. If the scrambled letters contain those patterns, the word almost certainly ends with one.
Count the vowels. Two vowels in a six-letter scrap usually means one vowel pair (EA, OU, AI) rather than two separate single vowels.
Work the ending, then the middle. Six-letter words that end in -ER usually have a consonant cluster in front of it — -MBER, -THER, -STER. Lock in the ending you're confident about and the remaining letters usually snap together as one chunk instead of four separate guesses.
Find the rarest letter and build around it. J, K, V, W and Z turn up in a small fraction of English words. Placing the odd one out first shrinks the candidate list faster than guessing at the opening letters — which are exactly the ones most likely to lead you astray.
Assume the answer is a common word. Jumble words are ordinary words everybody knows. If you land on something archaic or technical, you've taken a wrong turn, not found a clever answer. The boring reading is usually right.

Working out the final answer

Once the four main words are solved, read the circled letters in the order they appear in the puzzle. Almost always they spell a short, ordinary word — TEAM, OPEN, FAST — or a two-word phrase split across the four words.

If the circled letters refuse to resolve into anything, the cause is nearly always one wrong main word, not a wrong punchline. Check that each answer uses every letter of its scrap and no others — a single transposed letter is easy to miss when you're solving by hand, and one bad word takes the final answer down with it. The box above works on the circled letters the same way it works on the main words, so once you're confident in all four answers you can paste them in and let it finish the puzzle for you.

Jumble, anagrams and Wordle — what's actually different

All three are word puzzles, which is why people lump them together, but they ask three different questions — and that's why we keep them on three different pages:

Jumble hands you a shuffled word and wants one specific answer. It's an anagram that has a right answer, which is what makes it a puzzle.
An anagram solver hands you a set of letters and wants every word you can build from them. The answer is a list, not a word.
Wordle never gives you the letters at all. It gives you colour feedback on guesses you've already made, and the puzzle is deducing which word fits all of it. That's a different solver entirely.

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Common questions

Does this show today's Jumble answer?: No, and that's deliberate. We don't publish, scrape or archive the current day's puzzle. You type in the letters you're looking at and the solver works them out — which keeps it useful for any Jumble, from any paper or app, on any date.
Can I solve more than one Jumble word at once?: Yes. Add a row for each scrambled word and press Solve; every row is worked out independently, so a four-word Jumble takes one pass.
What do I do with the circled letters?: Type them into the circled letters box. They form the final answer or punchline, so they're usually the last thing you can solve — after the main words are right.
Does it handle repeated letters?: Yes. Your letters are counted exactly, so a result only qualifies if it uses the same letters in the same quantities. Type two Es and every answer shown also has two Es.
Is anything I type sent anywhere?: No. The solver runs entirely in your browser and keeps working offline once the page has loaded.