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Notes on word ladders and daily word games

• What is a word ladder? The 150-year-old puzzle behind Poople
  2026-09-25 · Lewis Carroll invented word ladders in 1877. Here's how they work, why four-letter words are the sweet spot, and how a modern daily game turned them into POOP.
• Poople strategy: how to reach POOP in the fewest guesses
  2026-09-26 · Five habits that consistently shave a guess or two off your ladder: aim for the double O, keep flexible letters, and learn the gateway words.
• How Poople Unlimited finds the shortest path (and why it prefers common words)
  2026-09-27 · A short, non-scary explanation of the breadth-first search behind the solver and the answer pages, and the trick that keeps solutions readable.