Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — BACHTOBACH
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Friday, May 22, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
They would be playing “Fugue in D Minor” and then “Prelude No. 9 In E” —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “They would be playing “Fugue in D Minor” and then “Prelude No. 9 In E” —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Friday, May 22, 2026. The punchline answer is BACHTOBACH — a 10-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 May 22, 2026 answers page.