Can LLMs one-shot the daily Poople word ladder?
Models get the start word and the legal word list, and must output a complete ladder to
POOP in a single response — scored against the provable optimum (par).
Score vs cost
Mean score (par ÷ steps; invalid = 0) vs mean cost per attempt.
Ringed points are the Pareto frontier — no cheaper model scores higher. Hover for detail.
Leaderboard
Daily results
Every attempt for one puzzle day, with the ladders models actually produced.