Poople Solver
Solve today's Poople in one tap, or type any starting word. Rolly sniffs out the shortest path to POOP as you type.
Unrolling…
Advertisement
Today's Poople solved: #458
Poople #458 (Nov 15, 2026) starts from FURS, and the solver finds the shortest path to POOP in 6 steps, which makes it Tricky. Want a nudge instead of the answer? Open today's Poople hints, one at a time.
Answer (Today's shortest path)RevealHide
FURS → FURL → FULL → PULL → POLL → POOL → POOP
How the solver works
The solver checks every one-letter change against the Poople word list and walks backwards from POOP, so it always finds the true shortest path. When several paths tie, the first one shown is the path the official game prefers.
Recent Poople puzzles, solved
The shortest path the official game prefers for each of the last few days:
- Poople #457 answer TIRE → TIME → TOME → POME → POMP → POOP
- Poople #456 answer RAGE → PAGE → PALE → POLE → POLL → POOL → POOP
- Poople #455 answer LAZY → LACY → LACK → LOCK → LOOK → LOOP → POOP
- Poople #454 answer PANE → PALE → POLE → POLL → POOL → POOP
- Poople #453 answer ICES → IDES → IDEM → ITEM → STEM → STEP → STOP → SLOP → PLOP → POOP
- Poople #452 answer WAYS → BAYS → BOYS → BOOS → BOOP → POOP
- Poople #451 answer REPO → REPS → RAPS → CAPS → COPS → COOS → COOP → POOP
The Poople word list
Poople accepts 2,398 four-letter words, and the solver uses exactly that list. Every word has at least one neighbour (a word one letter away), so none is a dead end. The best-connected word is WARE, with 25 neighbours.
Words one step from POOP
Every Poople ladder passes through one of these 11 words just before POOP, because they are the only words one letter away from it: BOOP, COOP, GOOP, HOOP, LOOP, PLOP, POMP, POOF, POOL, POOR, PROP. If you can reach any of them, you are one move from done.
How far is a word from POOP?
Every one of the 2,398 words in the Poople word list can reach POOP. The most common distance is 5 steps (879 words), and the furthest words are 11 steps away.
| Steps to POOP | Words |
|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
| 2 | 56 |
| 3 | 180 |
| 4 | 523 |
| 5 | 879 |
| 6 | 512 |
| 7 | 129 |
| 8 | 67 |
| 9 | 29 |
| 10 | 8 |
| 11 | 3 |
The hardest Poople starting words
The ten furthest words from POOP in the whole word list (more common words first):
- INCH: 11 steps
- AUGH: 11 steps
- UMPH: 11 steps
- AMEN: 10 steps
- ITCH: 10 steps
- ORCA: 10 steps
- ARGH: 10 steps
- IMPS: 10 steps
- ALGA: 10 steps
- UMPS: 10 steps