Poople #358: SUED to POOP

Path analysis

This route reaches POOP in 5 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 5 moves from SUED.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: SUED → HUED — change the 1st letter from S to H.
2. Move 2: HUED → HOED — change the 2nd letter from U to O.
3. Move 3: HOED → HOOD — change the 3rd letter from E to O.
4. Move 4: HOOD → HOOP — change the 4th letter from D to P.
5. Move 5: HOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from H to P.