Poople #782025-10-31
Poople #78: GONE to POOP
The shortest 5-step ladder from GONE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #78.
Play Poople #78
#78 GONE
G
O
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Poople #78 answer: GONE to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
gone
bone
bonk
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 GONE.
- Moves
- 5
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 11
The dictionary has 11 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: GONE → BONE — change the 1st letter from G to B.
- Move 2: BONE → BONK — change the 4th letter from E to K.
- Move 3: BONK → BOOK — change the 3rd letter from N 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 GONE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.