Poople #1: DAWN to POOP

Path analysis

This route reaches POOP in 5 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 5 moves from DAWN.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: DAWN → DOWN — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
2. Move 2: DOWN → GOWN — change the 1st letter from D to G.
3. Move 3: GOWN → GOON — change the 3rd letter from W to O.
4. Move 4: GOON → GOOP — change the 4th letter from N to P.
5. Move 5: GOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from G to P.