Poople #72: OWED to POOP

Path analysis

This route reaches POOP in 8 moves. Breadth-first search reaches every route with fewer moves first, so POOP cannot be reached in fewer than 8 moves from OWED.

Moves

8

Difficulty

Brutal

Shortest paths

1

The dictionary has one shortest route for this puzzle.

1. Move 1: OWED → AWED — change the 1st letter from O to A.
2. Move 2: AWED → APED — change the 2nd letter from W to P.
3. Move 3: APED → SPED — change the 1st letter from A to S.
4. Move 4: SPED → SLED — change the 2nd letter from P to L.
5. Move 5: SLED → PLED — change the 1st letter from S to P.
6. Move 6: PLED → PLOD — change the 3rd letter from E to O.
7. Move 7: PLOD → PLOP — change the 4th letter from D to P.
8. Move 8: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.