Poople #259: LAMB 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 LAMB.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

6

The dictionary has 6 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: LAMB → LIMB — change the 2nd letter from A to I.
2. Move 2: LIMB → LIMP — change the 4th letter from B to P.
3. Move 3: LIMP → PIMP — change the 1st letter from L to P.
4. Move 4: PIMP → POMP — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
5. Move 5: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.