Poople #632025-10-16
Poople #63: DUCK to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from DUCK to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #63.
Play Poople #63
#63 DUCK
D
U
C
K
Poople #63 answer: DUCK to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
duck
buck
bock
book
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 DUCK.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 7
The dictionary has 7 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: DUCK → BUCK — change the 1st letter from D to B.
- Move 2: BUCK → BOCK — change the 2nd letter from U to O.
- Move 3: BOCK → BOOK — change the 3rd letter from C to O.
- Move 4: BOOK → BOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
- Move 5: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from DUCK and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.