Poople #143: GIGA to POOP

Path analysis

This route reaches POOP in 6 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 6 moves from GIGA.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: GIGA → GIGS — change the 4th letter from A to S.
2. Move 2: GIGS → CIGS — change the 1st letter from G to C.
3. Move 3: CIGS → COGS — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: COGS → COOS — change the 3rd letter from G to O.
5. Move 5: COOS → COOP — change the 4th letter from S to P.
6. Move 6: COOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from C to P.