How do you get from DEAL to POOP?

DEAL → DELL → DOLL → POLL → POOL → POOP in 5 moves.

DEAL to POOP

One shortest path is DEAL → DELL → DOLL → POLL → POOL → POOP. That is 5 moves on the 2,398-word graph from the poople.io client.

I ran DEAL through the same alphabetical search I used for the daily archive. If this start was also a daily puzzle, the archive page is the better citation for the date. This page only claims the ladder.

Poople board on poople.io — The daily board uses the same one-letter rule.

BARN to BORN — Official one-letter example.

Source: poople.io client, 2026-09-30.