Poople #314: OURS 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 OURS.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

13

The dictionary has 13 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: OURS → BURS — change the 1st letter from O to B.
2. Move 2: BURS → BUBS — change the 3rd letter from R to B.
3. Move 3: BUBS → BOBS — change the 2nd letter from U to O.
4. Move 4: BOBS → BOOS — change the 3rd letter from B to O.
5. Move 5: BOOS → BOOP — change the 4th letter from S to P.
6. Move 6: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.