Poople #263: TIED 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 TIED.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: TIED → PIED — change the 1st letter from T to P.
2. Move 2: PIED → PLED — change the 2nd letter from I to L.
3. Move 3: PLED → PLOD — change the 3rd letter from E to O.
4. Move 4: PLOD → PLOP — change the 4th letter from D to P.
5. Move 5: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.