Poople #216: TIES 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 TIES.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

30

The dictionary has 30 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: TIES → DIES — change the 1st letter from T to D.
2. Move 2: DIES → DOES — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
3. Move 3: DOES → DOER — change the 4th letter from S to R.
4. Move 4: DOER → DOOR — change the 3rd letter from E to O.
5. Move 5: DOOR → POOR — change the 1st letter from D to P.
6. Move 6: POOR → POOP — change the 4th letter from R to P.