Word Ladder #28 Gentle

Sat 26 Sep 2026 · 0 played · 0 finished

Gentle Standard Tricky

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ALONG→STOVEpar 4

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About this ladder

The shape
ALONG and STOVE 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 STONE, where 11 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 0:55.