Poople #922025-11-14
Poople #92: NIPS to POOP
The shortest 6-step ladder from NIPS to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #92.
Play Poople #92
#92 NIPS
N
I
P
S
Poople #92 answer: NIPS to POOP
Hidden
Answer path
nips
hips
hops
bops
boos
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 NIPS.
- Moves
- 6
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Shortest paths
- 17
The dictionary has 17 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.
- Move 1: NIPS → HIPS — change the 1st letter from N to H.
- Move 2: HIPS → HOPS — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
- Move 3: HOPS → BOPS — change the 1st letter from H to B.
- Move 4: BOPS → BOOS — change the 3rd letter from P to O.
- Move 5: BOOS → BOOP — change the 4th letter from S to P.
- Move 6: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.
This Poople puzzle starts from NIPS and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 6 moves.