Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — STRIKINGBACK
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Thursday, January 25, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
After losing the first game the bowling team was now —
Punchline answer
STRIKINGBACK
Answer letters12
Vowels3
DateJan 25
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “After losing the first game the bowling team was now —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Thursday, January 25, 2024. The punchline answer is STRIKINGBACK — a 12-letter word that completes the joke.
The cartoon is the centerpiece of every Daily Jumble. After unscrambling the four word jumbles, you take the circled letters from those answers and rearrange them to spell the punchline. The wordplay almost always hinges on a pun or double meaning. The full puzzle for this date — all four scrambled words plus this cartoon — is on the January 25, 2024 answers page.