Poople #311: RIPE 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 RIPE.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

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

1. Move 1: RIPE → PIPE — change the 1st letter from R to P.
2. Move 2: PIPE → POPE — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
3. Move 3: POPE → POME — change the 3rd letter from P to M.
4. Move 4: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
5. Move 5: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.