Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — PLAYEDHARDBALL
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Thursday, December 22, 2022. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The baseball player got a better contract because he and his agent —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The baseball player got a better contract because he and his agent —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Thursday, December 22, 2022. The punchline answer is PLAYEDHARDBALL — a 14-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 December 22, 2022 answers page.