Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — HITORMISS
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, August 12, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The baseball player’s performance at the plate was becoming —
Punchline answer
HITORMISS
Answer letters9
Vowels3
DateAug 12
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The baseball player’s performance at the plate was becoming —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, August 12, 2024. The punchline answer is HITORMISS — a 9-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 August 12, 2024 answers page.