← Back to today’s gamePUZZLE #77 · OCT 30, 2025

LITE to POOP.

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

  1. STARTliteYour starting word
  2. 01limeT → M
  3. 02limpE → P
  4. 03pimpL → P
  5. 04pompI → O
  6. 05poopM → O · Made it!

The first move matters.

LITE has 16 valid one-letter neighbors in this dictionary. 1 of them can begin a shortest path:

LIME

Each of these leaves 4 moves to POOP. The other 15 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.

LITE → LIME → LIMP → PIMP → POMP → POOP