Poople #328: QUIT 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 QUIT.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

3

The dictionary has 3 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: QUIT → SUIT — change the 1st letter from Q to S.
2. Move 2: SUIT → SLIT — change the 2nd letter from U to L.
3. Move 3: SLIT → SLOT — change the 3rd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: SLOT → PLOT — change the 1st letter from S to P.
5. Move 5: PLOT → PLOP — change the 4th letter from T to P.
6. Move 6: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.