Poople #374: GIRL 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 GIRL.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: GIRL → GILL — change the 3rd letter from R to L.
2. Move 2: GILL → PILL — change the 1st letter from G to P.
3. Move 3: PILL → POLL — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
4. Move 4: POLL → POOL — change the 3rd letter from L to O.
5. Move 5: POOL → POOP — change the 4th letter from L to P.