Tangle Solver for Everyday Puzzles

Enter the start and target words, 4 to 6 letters each. Get the shortest chain of one-letter changes. If the game rejects a word, mark it and get new steps.

The steps show here.

Rules

Each step changes one letter, and every word on the way must be a real word.
The puzzle is solved when you reach the target word.

How it finds the steps

The solver tries every chain of common words and keeps the shortest. When several are equally short, it picks the one whose least common word is most common, because the game is likelier to reject a rare word. If common words don’t connect, it tries the whole word list.

Limits

The solver’s word list only approximates the game’s, so the game may reject a word in the steps. If the game’s suggested path is shorter than the first solution here, the game’s path uses a word the solver’s list lacks or skips as rare.
Your words and the rejected ones are saved on this device for 30 minutes, so you can switch to the game and come back. Start over clears them.