Poople #184: CITY 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 CITY.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

4

The dictionary has 4 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: CITY → CITE — change the 4th letter from Y to E.
2. Move 2: CITE → COTE — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
3. Move 3: COTE → COME — change the 3rd letter from T to M.
4. Move 4: COME → POME — change the 1st letter from C to P.
5. Move 5: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
6. Move 6: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.