Poople #192025-09-02
Poople #19: WING to POOP
The shortest 7-step ladder from WING to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #19.
Play Poople #19
#19 WING
W
I
N
G
Poople #19 answer: WING to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
wing
ding
dong
bong
bonk
book
boop
poop
7 movesBrutalFirst hint: change the 1st letter.
Path analysis
This route reaches POOP in 7 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 7 moves from WING.
- Moves
- 7
- Difficulty
- Brutal
- Shortest paths
- 92
The dictionary has 92 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: WING → DING — change the 1st letter from W to D.
- Move 2: DING → DONG — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
- Move 3: DONG → BONG — change the 1st letter from D to B.
- Move 4: BONG → BONK — change the 4th letter from G to K.
- Move 5: BONK → BOOK — change the 3rd letter from N to O.
- Move 6: BOOK → BOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
- Move 7: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from WING and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 7 moves.