← Back to today’s gamePUZZLE #106 · NOV 28, 2025
HARE to POOP.
5 moves. 1 equally short route. Here is one way through.
- STARThareYour starting word
- 01pareH → P
- 02poreA → O
- 03pomeR → M
- 04pompE → P
- 05poopM → O · Made it!
The first move matters.
HARE has 20 valid one-letter neighbors in this dictionary. 1 of them can begin a shortest path:
PARE
Each of these leaves 4 moves to POOP. The other 19 neighbors are valid moves too, but cannot reach the target in the minimum from this starting word.
Follow the changes
The highlighted letter beside each step shows exactly which position changed. This historical solution uses the original puzzle’s dictionary and minimum move count. Other shortest routes can take different intermediate words.
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Showing 1 of 1 paths.
HARE → PARE → PORE → POME → POMP → POOP