Poople #272: MUST 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 MUST.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

9

The dictionary has 9 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: MUST → LUST — change the 1st letter from M to L.
2. Move 2: LUST → LOST — change the 2nd letter from U to O.
3. Move 3: LOST → LOOT — change the 3rd letter from S to O.
4. Move 4: LOOT → LOOP — change the 4th letter from T to P.
5. Move 5: LOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from L to P.