Poople #3952026-09-13
Poople #395: PAID to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from PAID to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #395.
Play Poople #395
#395 PAID
P
A
I
D
Poople #395 answer: PAID to POOP
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Answer path
paid
pail
pall
poll
pool
poop
5 movesHardFirst hint: change the 4th 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 PAID.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 1
The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.
- Move 1: PAID → PAIL — change the 4th letter from D to L.
- Move 2: PAIL → PALL — change the 3rd letter from I to L.
- Move 3: PALL → POLL — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
- Move 4: POLL → POOL — change the 3rd letter from L to O.
- Move 5: POOL → POOP — change the 4th letter from L to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from PAID and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.