Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — NEEDLING
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, January 26, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
When the pine trees traded sarcastic remarks the result was —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “When the pine trees traded sarcastic remarks the result was —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, January 26, 2026. The punchline answer is NEEDLING — 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 January 26, 2026 answers page.