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Par uses everyday words only. Tap a word for its meaning.
Fastest players
- 1Jord41110.5s4 steps
- 2PeteS17.1s4 steps
- 3CB17.9s4 steps
- 4EmmaP19.0s4 steps
- 5SusieP22.8s4 steps
- 6Deep22.9s4 steps
- 7Tanya25.9s4 steps
- 8Dave27.6s4 steps
- 9Jesique28.0s4 steps
- 10JanE30.6s4 steps
Fastest guest: 4:27.3 in 5 steps (unranked)
18 played · 18 finished · ⚔️ solved in hard mode
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About this ladder
- The shape
- SMASH and CLAWS differ in only 4 places and par is 4, so this is as direct as a ladder can be: every single move fixes a letter that was wrong.
- The wide rung
- The par route passes through CLASS, where 12 different single-letter changes all make real words - more than at any other rung on this ladder. Most of them lead nowhere useful.
- The verdict
- We rate this one gentle: few forks, little backtracking and everyday vocabulary throughout. Par time was 1:00.