Poople #772025-10-30
Poople #77: LITE to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from LITE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #77.
Play Poople #77
#77 LITE
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Poople #77 answer: LITE to POOP
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Answer path
lite
lime
limp
pimp
pomp
poop
5 movesHardFirst hint: change the 3rd 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 LITE.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 1
The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.
- Move 1: LITE → LIME — change the 3rd letter from T to M.
- Move 2: LIME → LIMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
- Move 3: LIMP → PIMP — change the 1st letter from L to P.
- Move 4: PIMP → POMP — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
- Move 5: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.
This Poople puzzle starts from LITE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.