POOPLE #77 · 30 Oct 2025

LITE to POOP.

A little help for this word ladder. Open only the hints you need.

5shortest moves

1shortest path

Easyour distance-based rating

01A gentle nudgeJust the shortest length. No words revealed.

You can get from LITE to POOP in 5 moves. That means 6 words, including the start.

02A little more directionFind out which letter to change first.

One shortest route starts by changing letter 3. You do not have to match a letter in POOP on every move.

03Your first stepping stoneReveal the first word of a shortest route.

Try LIME. From there, you have 4 moves left.LIME

04The full answerReady? Reveal every step to POOP.

LITE · LIME · LIMP · PIMP · POMP · POOP

StartLITEYour starting word
Move 1LIMET — M · letter 3
Move 2LIMPE — P · letter 4
Move 3PIMPL — P · letter 1
Move 4POMPI — O · letter 2
Move 5POOPM — O · letter 3

1 shortest path in the checked word list. View the full explanation

Every step, explained.

Full solution below. Stop here if you want to keep solving.

StartLITEYour starting word
Move 1LIMET — M · letter 3
Move 2LIMPE — P · letter 4
Move 3PIMPL — P · letter 1
Move 4POMPI — O · letter 2
Move 5POOPM — O · letter 3

This is the unique shortest path in the checked word list.

Choices at every step

Legal choices change one letter. Shortest-route choices also reduce the remaining distance by one; the counts below refer to the route shown above.

Word	Legal choices	On a shortest route	Next words on a shortest route
LITE	16	1	LIME
LIME	17	1	LIMP
LIMP	11	1	PIMP
PIMP	5	1	POMP
POMP	6	1	POOP

THE FIRST STEP

One way to move closer.

From LITE, this word reduces the remaining shortest distance by one:

LIME

What about the other moves?

BITE (5 remaining); CITE (5 remaining); KITE (6 remaining); LATE (6 remaining); LICE (5 remaining); LIFE (5 remaining); LIKE (5 remaining); LINE (5 remaining); LIRE (5 remaining); LIVE (5 remaining); LUTE (6 remaining); MITE (6 remaining); RITE (6 remaining); SITE (6 remaining); VITE (6 remaining).

These moves are valid, but do not lie on a shortest route from LITE.

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Why this is a shortest path

Our solver searches the checked word list one move at a time. LITE first reaches POOP at distance 5; no shorter route exists in that list.

Difficulty here is based only on move count: up to 5 is Easy, 6 is Moderate, 7 is Tricky, 8 is Hard, and 9 or more is Expert.

How we check answers

Historical entry reconstructed from the official schedule available on 10 Nov 2026. Source and verification details.