About room #205
- Ladder
- SILK → NUKE
- Word length
- 4
- Par (fewest steps)
- 6
- Letters that differ
- 4
Room #205 climbs from SILK to NUKE. Of their 4 letters, 4 differ (positions 1, 2, 3, 4); each of those needs a rung of its own, so the shortest imaginable ladder has 4 rungs — par here is 6.
So 2 rungs are sidesteps: somewhere a correct letter gets spoiled for a moment, or a letter from neither word is borrowed.
If a step leads to a word that can only change back, undo it and try another position.
Four-letter words, but five or six steps.
Stuck? Open a hint
Hint: the first step
Change letter 3 to N: SINK.
Show one shortest ladder
SILK → SINK → SUNK → DUNK → DUNE → DUKE → NUKE
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