Poople #732025-10-26
Poople #73: LACY to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from LACY to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #73.
Play Poople #73
#73 LACY
L
A
C
Y
Poople #73 answer: LACY to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
lacy
lack
lock
look
loop
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 LACY.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 1
The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.
- Move 1: LACY → LACK — change the 4th letter from Y to K.
- Move 2: LACK → LOCK — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
- Move 3: LOCK → LOOK — change the 3rd letter from C to O.
- Move 4: LOOK → LOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
- Move 5: LOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from L to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from LACY and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.