Poople #102025-08-24

Poople #10: FARE to POOP

The shortest 5-step ladder from FARE to POOP, plus the full solution and a replay of puzzle #10.

Play Poople #10

#10 FARE

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Poople #10 answer: FARE to POOP

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Answer path

fare
pare
pore
pome
pomp
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 FARE.

Moves
5
Difficulty
Hard
Shortest paths
2

The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

  1. Move 1: FARE → PARE — change the 1st letter from F to P.
  2. Move 2: PARE → PORE — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
  3. Move 3: PORE → POME — change the 3rd letter from R to M.
  4. Move 4: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
  5. Move 5: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.

This Poople puzzle starts from FARE and reaches POOP by changing one letter at a time. The shortest known path takes 5 moves.