Poople #342: WARY 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 WARY.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

10

The dictionary has 10 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: WARY → WARD — change the 4th letter from Y to D.
2. Move 2: WARD → WORD — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: WORD → WOOD — change the 3rd letter from R to O.
4. Move 4: WOOD → GOOD — change the 1st letter from W to G.
5. Move 5: GOOD → GOOP — change the 4th letter from D to P.
6. Move 6: GOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from G to P.