Poople #93: SANK 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 SANK.

Moves

5

Difficulty

Hard

Shortest paths

2

The dictionary has 2 equally short routes; the route below is one of them.

1. Move 1: SANK → BANK — change the 1st letter from S to B.
2. Move 2: BANK → BONK — change the 2nd letter from A to O.
3. Move 3: BONK → BOOK — change the 3rd letter from N to O.
4. Move 4: BOOK → BOOP — change the 4th letter from K to P.
5. Move 5: BOOP → POOP — change the 1st letter from B to P.