Poople #267: PITA 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 PITA.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

3

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

1. Move 1: PITA → PITS — change the 4th letter from A to S.
2. Move 2: PITS → BITS — change the 1st letter from P to B.
3. Move 3: BITS → BOTS — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: BOTS → BOOS — change the 3rd letter from T to O.
5. Move 5: BOOS → BOOP — change the 4th letter from S to P.
6. Move 6: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.