Poople #426: MICS 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 MICS.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

4

The dictionary has 4 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: MICS → MISS — change the 3rd letter from C to S.
2. Move 2: MISS → MOSS — change the 2nd letter from I to O.
3. Move 3: MOSS → BOSS — change the 1st letter from M to B.
4. Move 4: BOSS → BOOS — change the 3rd letter from S 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.