Poople #241: GILT 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 GILT.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

3

The dictionary has 3 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

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