Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — MISSTEPS
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
Construction of the new staircase was behind schedule due to all the —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “Construction of the new staircase was behind schedule due to all the —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. The punchline answer is MISSTEPS — a 8-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 28, 2026 answers page.