About room #214
- Ladder
- SKIP → MANE
- Word length
- 4
- Par (fewest steps)
- 5
- Letters that differ
- 4
Room #214 climbs from SKIP to MANE. 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 5.
So 1 rung is a sidestep: 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 4 to D: SKID.
Show one shortest ladder
SKIP → SKID → SAID → SAND → SANE → MANE
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