Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — GOODCALL
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, August 26, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The decision to build a transatlantic telephone cable was a —
Punchline answer
GOODCALL
Answer letters8
Vowels3
DateAug 26
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The decision to build a transatlantic telephone cable was a —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, August 26, 2024. The punchline answer is GOODCALL — 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 August 26, 2024 answers page.