Poople #156: EGGS 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 EGGS.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: EGGS → ERGS — change the 2nd letter from G to R.
2. Move 2: ERGS → EROS — change the 3rd letter from G to O.
3. Move 3: EROS → PROS — change the 1st letter from E to P.
4. Move 4: PROS → PROP — change the 4th letter from S to P.
5. Move 5: PROP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from R to O.