If it wasn’t for CICADA, this puzzle would have been a breeze. With MAGIC crossed out, WORK came quickly into view leaving THEIR for the finish. David did a superb job in separating the G & M of MAGIC at either side of the layout, but it wasn’t enough to fool me. It was the same amount of letters as yesterday’s final anagram, but it would solve into three words instead of four. The final solve was an anagram that was 14-letters in length. The caricatures of both Penn & Teller were well drawn, and the intricacies of their facial features were captured perfectly. The one line of dialogue that Jeff exclaims lets us all know that he’s obviously a fan of these gentleman and he’s seen this particular trick before. Jumble artist, Jeff Knurek, and his wife, Kathy, make an appearance as well. Sliding over to the cartoon, we see the aforementioned duo of Penn & Teller. WHACK is the oldest with a date of 2/19/18 and GRIME was the freshest with a date of 12/5/18. Both of the anagrams that we see today were used in 2018, and the words they solve into were also used in that year. Since we had two new words, that means the other two were old friends. I’m not going to lie, it took quite a bit of effort to solve, and it’s definitely going on my personal list of most difficult words. Doubling the C’s, and then the A’s got me nowhere, so I broke down and did some self-jumbles in the margin of my paper.

Living so close to Maine, ACADIA (as in Acadia National Park) was all that I could see. There’s an A at the end, right? Excellent, I’ve just read your mind and you all picked CICADA as the hardest anagram! I told you I’d blow your mind! 😂Īll joking aside, CICADA, as well as PROMPT, were both brand new anagrams making their debut into gameplay for the first time, but it was the former that had me going crazy. Now, slowly slide your finger to the last letter of the anagram. Even if you solved all of them without any trouble, I’m sure one of them took a fraction of a second longer to come into view.

Look at today’s Jumble puzzle and put your finger on the anagram that you had the most difficult time with. It involves mental telepathy - but don’t be alarmed. I’d like to perform a simple trick for you this morning, and I’m almost certain that you’ll be amazed. Since my blog is text based, I only have words to get the job done. Penn & Teller usually employ props and sleight of hand techniques to entertain the crowd. The funny thing is, I’m quite the magician myself. The two characters that we see on stage were caricatures of the world famous magician/entertainer duo known as Penn & Teller. It’s always eye-catching and well drawn, and that was particularly true with today’s panel. The first thing that we all notice when we look at the Jumble puzzle is the cartoon. Happy Tuesday, Jumble players! I’m going to start my post off a bit differently this morning, so please bear with me. WHEN PENN & TELLER STEPPED ONTO THE STAGE, THEY WERE READY TO – – –

Crowded teeth make you jumble words