Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — DRIVINGNAILS
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The carpenters were stuck in traffic instead of —
Punchline answer
DRIVINGNAILS
Answer letters12
Vowels4
DateJan 21
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The carpenters were stuck in traffic instead of —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. The punchline answer is DRIVINGNAILS — 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 21, 2026 answers page.