Poople #41: HAND 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 HAND.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: HAND → HANK — change the 4th letter from D to K.
2. Move 2: HANK → HONK — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: HONK → HOOK — change the 3rd letter from N to O.
4. Move 4: HOOK → HOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
5. Move 5: HOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from H to P.