Poople #357: RITE 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 RITE.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

33

The dictionary has 33 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: RITE → BITE — change the 1st letter from R to B.
2. Move 2: BITE → BITS — change the 4th letter from E to S.
3. Move 3: BITS → BOTS — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: BOTS → BOOS — change the 3rd letter from T 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.