Poople #178: GIGS 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 GIGS.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

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