Poople #342025-09-17
Poople #34: BLUE to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from BLUE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #34.
Play Poople #34
#34 BLUE
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Poople #34 answer: BLUE to POOP
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Answer path
blue
flue
floe
flop
plop
poop
5 movesHardFirst hint: change the 1st letter.
Path analysis
This route reaches POOP in 5 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 5 moves from BLUE.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 1
The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.
- Move 1: BLUE → FLUE — change the 1st letter from B to F.
- Move 2: FLUE → FLOE — change the 3rd letter from U to O.
- Move 3: FLOE → FLOP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
- Move 4: FLOP → PLOP — change the 1st letter from F to P.
- Move 5: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.
This Poople puzzle starts from BLUE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.