Poople #392025-09-22
Poople #39: TURN to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from TURN to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #39.
Play Poople #39
#39 TURN
T
U
R
N
Poople #39 answer: TURN to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
turn
burn
born
boon
boop
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 TURN.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 6
The dictionary has 6 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: TURN → BURN — change the 1st letter from T to B.
- Move 2: BURN → BORN — change the 2nd letter from U to O.
- Move 3: BORN → BOON — change the 3rd letter from R to O.
- Move 4: BOON → BOOP — change the 4th letter from N to P.
- Move 5: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from TURN and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.