← Back to today’s gamePUZZLE #180 · FEB 10, 2026

HAUL to POOP.

5 moves. 1 equally short route. Here is one way through.

  1. STARThaulYour starting word
  2. 01hallU → L
  3. 02pallH → P
  4. 03pollA → O
  5. 04poolL → O
  6. 05poopL → P · Made it!

The first move matters.

HAUL has 3 valid one-letter neighbors in this dictionary. 1 of them can begin a shortest path:

HALL

Each of these leaves 4 moves to POOP. The other 2 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.

HAUL → HALL → PALL → POLL → POOL → POOP