Poople Unlimited

How Poople Unlimited works

Each practice puzzle gives you a random starting word. Change one letter at a time, using only words from the Poople word list, until you reach POOP. Practice puzzles never use words from the daily schedule, so nothing here spoils a future daily Poople.

Want today's real puzzle? See today's Poople hints.

Easy, Medium and Hard

Practice mode has three levels of its own, separate from the daily Easy, Tricky and Brutal ratings, and each one picks a starting word by how far it is from POOP. Easy uses words 3 to 4 steps away, Medium uses words exactly 5 steps away and Hard uses words 6 to 7 steps away. The practice list holds 1,147 starting words in all: 703 for Easy, 245 for Medium and 199 for Hard.

Which practice mode matches the daily Poople?

The archive holds 105 daily puzzles so far. By shortest path, 57 match Medium and 42 match Hard. The other 6 are outside the practice ranges. If you want practice that feels like a typical daily puzzle, start with Medium.

Browse every past daily game in the Poople archive.

A worked Hard ladder: MIDI

Of the Hard starting words, MIDI is the most frequent word in the official Poople frequency list. Its shortest ladder to POOP takes 7 steps. Try it in Hard mode first if you like, then open the steps below.

Tips that come from the word list

Every ladder reaches POOP from one of the 11 words that are a single letter away: BOOP, COOP, GOOP, HOOP, LOOP, PLOP, POMP, POOF, POOL, POOR and PROP.

Across the practice list, the most common distance is 4 steps from POOP (523 words).

Stuck on a word? Look up its shortest path in the Poople solver, or read how to play Poople for the rules.