Poople #88: SCUM 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 SCUM.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

9

The dictionary has 9 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: SCUM → SLUM — change the 2nd letter from C to L.
2. Move 2: SLUM → GLUM — change the 1st letter from S to G.
3. Move 3: GLUM → GLOM — change the 3rd letter from U to O.
4. Move 4: GLOM → GLOP — change the 4th letter from M to P.
5. Move 5: GLOP → PLOP — change the 1st letter from G to P.
6. Move 6: PLOP → POOP — change the 2nd letter from L to O.