Poople #269: SNUG 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 SNUG.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

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

1. Move 1: SNUG → SLUG — change the 2nd letter from N to L.
2. Move 2: SLUG → SLOG — change the 3rd letter from U to O.
3. Move 3: SLOG → SLOP — change the 4th letter from G to P.
4. Move 4: SLOP → PLOP — change the 1st letter from S to P.
5. Move 5: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.