Poople #822025-11-04
Poople #82: HARD to POOP
The shortest 6-step ladder from HARD to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #82.
Play Poople #82
#82 HARD
H
A
R
D
Poople #82 answer: HARD to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
hard
bard
barn
born
boon
boop
poop
6 movesHardFirst hint: change the 1st letter.
Path analysis
This route reaches POOP in 6 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 6 moves from HARD.
- Moves
- 6
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 17
The dictionary has 17 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: HARD → BARD — change the 1st letter from H to B.
- Move 2: BARD → BARN — change the 4th letter from D to N.
- Move 3: BARN → BORN — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
- Move 4: BORN → BOON — change the 3rd letter from R to O.
- Move 5: BOON → BOOP — change the 4th letter from N to P.
- Move 6: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from HARD and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 6 moves.