About JumbleSolver.com

What is JumbleSolver.com?

JumbleSolver.com is a free, independent reference site for the Daily Jumble — the syndicated American word puzzle that's appeared in newspapers since 1954. We do two simple things: index every Daily Jumble we can find into a searchable archive, and run a fast in-browser Jumble Solver that unscrambles any 3–13 letter word against that archive.

If you've ever been stuck on a scrambled word or wanted to peek at last Tuesday's bonus jumble, we built this for you.

How the site works

Every morning around 6 AM Eastern, a small server-side scraper fetches the day's Daily Jumble JSON directly from the publisher's feed. It splits the puzzle into its four core pieces and stores them in our database:

• Four scrambled words — each becomes its own dedicated answer page with letter-by-letter analysis.
• The bonus jumble — the longer scramble built from circled letters in the four answers.
• The cartoon clue — the setup line whose punchline is the bonus answer.
• The date — each day gets a hub page at /daily-jumble-answers/{date} linking to everything from that puzzle.

The Jumble Solver on the homepage loads our full answer dictionary once on page load (a single ~50 KB JSON request), then matches anagrams entirely in your browser. There's no server roundtrip when you press Solve, so results come back the instant you finish typing.

Why we built this

The Daily Jumble has been a daily ritual in American newspapers for seventy years. We grew up solving it over breakfast, scribbling letters in the margins, and yelling at the comics page when the bonus jumble had us stumped at 7:45 AM with the bus pulling up outside.

Existing answer sites either show one day at a time, gate the answers behind walls of pop-ups, or stuff the page so full of ads the actual puzzle is invisible on mobile. We wanted a clean, fast reference that:

1. Loads quickly on any device.
2. Lets you find any past Daily Jumble in two clicks.
3. Doesn't dump the answer in your face if you just want to verify a single word.
4. Has a real solver tool — not a Google form that searches a dictionary you don't trust.

About the Daily Jumble

The Daily Jumble was created in 1954 by Martin Naydel under the original name "Scramble." Renamed "Jumble" shortly after, it was picked up by Tribune Content Agency and syndicated nationwide. Henri Arnold and Bob Lee ran the puzzle from 1962 through the mid-2000s, when current creators David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek took over.

Today the Daily Jumble appears in hundreds of newspapers — the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Dallas Morning News, Arcamax, and many others — plus the official Daily Jumble apps on iOS and Android. It's one of the most-played daily word games in print, and it's still designed by humans, not algorithms.

What we are not

This site is not affiliated with the Daily Jumble's publisher. We're not Tribune Content Agency, we're not David L. Hoyt, we're not Jeff Knurek, and we're not endorsed or sponsored by any of them.

Daily Jumble® is a registered trademark of Tribune Content Agency. We're a fan-built reference that catalogs publicly published puzzles so solvers can look up answers and learn patterns. If you're looking for the official puzzle, the official app, or licensed Jumble books, head to tribunecontentagency.com.

How we make money

The site is free, and we'd like to keep it that way. To cover hosting and the time it takes to maintain the archive, we run display advertising through Ezoic. We never run pop-ups, autoplay video, or interstitials that block content.

If you'd like to support the site without seeing ads, the simplest thing is to share a Daily Jumble answer page on social media — every visit helps. See our privacy policy for details on what advertising data is collected.

Accuracy and corrections

We fetch the Daily Jumble JSON straight from the publisher, so the four scrambled words, the bonus jumble, and the cartoon clue are pulled directly from the source — not transcribed by hand. That makes typos and missing letters extremely rare.

If you spot a mismatch on any answer page, please let us know. We act on corrections within hours.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, feature requests, or just want to say hi? Email [email protected]. For privacy or legal questions, see our privacy policy.

Thanks for visiting JumbleSolver.com — happy solving.