Word Ladder #26

Thu 24 Sep 2026 · 19 played · 14 finished

Gentle Standard Tricky

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CRUSH→PROPSpar 5

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19 played · 14 finished · ⚔️ solved in hard mode

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About this ladder

The detour
CRUSH and PROPS differ in only 4 places, but par is 5. One move has to go sideways - changing a letter that was already right, or changing the same letter twice - before the ladder can finish.
The wide rung
The par route passes through CRASS, 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
A standard ladder: some real choices along the way, nothing exotic in the vocabulary. Par time was 1:20.