Poople #90: HARM 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 HARM.

Moves

6

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

6

The dictionary has 6 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: HARM → HARE — change the 4th letter from M to E.
2. Move 2: HARE → PARE — change the 1st letter from H to P.
3. Move 3: PARE → PORE — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
4. Move 4: PORE → POME — change the 3rd letter from R to M.
5. Move 5: POME → POMP — change the 4th letter from E to P.
6. Move 6: POMP → POOP — change the 3rd letter from M to O.