About room #111
- Ladder
- ZOOM → DOCK
- Word length
- 4
- Par (fewest steps)
- 4
- Letters that differ
- 3
Room #111 climbs from ZOOM to DOCK. Of their 4 letters, 3 differ (positions 1, 3, 4); each of those needs a rung of its own, so the shortest imaginable ladder has 3 rungs — par here is 4.
So 1 rung is a sidestep: somewhere a correct letter gets spoiled for a moment, or a letter from neither word is borrowed.
Try changing the vowel first; short words tolerate vowel swaps well.
Four-letter words and short ladders of three or four steps.
Stuck? Open a hint
Hint: the first step
Change letter 1 to L: LOOM.
Show one shortest ladder
ZOOM → LOOM → LOOK → LOCK → DOCK
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