Poople #313: LARK 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 LARK.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: LARK → LACK — change the 3rd letter from R to C.
2. Move 2: LACK → LOCK — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: LOCK → LOOK — change the 3rd letter from C to O.
4. Move 4: LOOK → LOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
5. Move 5: LOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from L to P.