Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — SELFSERVE
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, October 27, 2025. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The tennis balls at the courts were —
Punchline answer
SELFSERVE
Answer letters9
Vowels3
DateOct 27
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The tennis balls at the courts were —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, October 27, 2025. The punchline answer is SELFSERVE — 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 October 27, 2025 answers page.