Poople #102: JAIL 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 JAIL.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

3

The dictionary has 3 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: JAIL → FAIL — change the 1st letter from J to F.
2. Move 2: FAIL → FOIL — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: FOIL → FOOL — change the 3rd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: FOOL → POOL — change the 1st letter from F to P.
5. Move 5: POOL → POOP — change the 4th letter from L to P.