Poople #274: WANT 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 WANT.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

9

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

1. Move 1: WANT → CANT — change the 1st letter from W to C.
2. Move 2: CANT → CAST — change the 3rd letter from N to S.
3. Move 3: CAST → COST — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
4. Move 4: COST → COOT — change the 3rd letter from S to O.
5. Move 5: COOT → COOP — change the 4th letter from T to P.
6. Move 6: COOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from C to P.