Poople #167: PINT 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 PINT.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

11

The dictionary has 11 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: PINT → HINT — change the 1st letter from P to H.
2. Move 2: HINT → HILT — change the 3rd letter from N to L.
3. Move 3: HILT → HOLT — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: HOLT → HOOT — change the 3rd letter from L to O.
5. Move 5: HOOT → HOOP — change the 4th letter from T to P.
6. Move 6: HOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from H to P.