Poople #261: SHIN 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 SHIN.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

5

The dictionary has 5 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: SHIN → CHIN — change the 1st letter from S to C.
2. Move 2: CHIN → CHIP — change the 4th letter from N to P.
3. Move 3: CHIP → CHOP — change the 3rd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: CHOP → COOP — change the 2nd letter from H to O.
5. Move 5: COOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from C to P.