Word Ladder #31

Tue 29 Sep 2026 · 17 played · 16 finished

Gentle Standard Tricky

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CRAVE→PLANKpar 4

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About this ladder

The shape
CRAVE and PLANK 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 CLANK, 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
A standard ladder: some real choices along the way, nothing exotic in the vocabulary. Par time was 1:00.