Poople #324: VIEW 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 VIEW.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: VIEW → VIED — change the 4th letter from W to D.
2. Move 2: VIED → PIED — change the 1st letter from V to P.
3. Move 3: PIED → PLED — change the 2nd letter from I to L.
4. Move 4: PLED → PLOD — change the 3rd letter from E to O.
5. Move 5: PLOD → PLOP — change the 4th letter from D to P.
6. Move 6: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.