Poople #372: CANT 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 CANT.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

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

1. Move 1: CANT → CAST — change the 3rd letter from N to S.
2. Move 2: CAST → COST — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: COST → COOT — change the 3rd letter from S to O.
4. Move 4: COOT → COOP — change the 4th letter from T to P.
5. Move 5: COOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from C to P.