Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — NOTHINGOFSORT
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Thursday, October 17, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
They tried to make a word from the jumbled letters but got — ____ ____ THE ____
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “They tried to make a word from the jumbled letters but got — ____ ____ THE ____” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Thursday, October 17, 2024. The punchline answer is NOTHINGOFSORT — a 13-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 17, 2024 answers page.