Poople #3182026-06-28
Poople #318: LATE to POOP
The shortest 6-step ladder from LATE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #318.
Play Poople #318
#318 LATE
L
A
T
E
Poople #318 answer: LATE to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
late
date
dote
dome
pome
pomp
poop
6 movesHardFirst hint: change the 1st letter.
Path analysis
This route reaches POOP in 6 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 6 moves from LATE.
- Moves
- 6
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 27
The dictionary has 27 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: LATE → DATE — change the 1st letter from L to D.
- Move 2: DATE → DOTE — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
- Move 3: DOTE → DOME — change the 3rd letter from T to M.
- Move 4: DOME → POME — change the 1st letter from D to P.
- Move 5: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
- Move 6: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.
This Poople puzzle starts from LATE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 6 moves.