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The word ladder game was invented by Lewis Carroll in 1877. The idea is to being

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Question

The word ladder game was invented by Lewis Carroll in 1877. The idea is to being with a start word and then change one letter at a time until you arrive at the end word. Each word along the way must be an English word. For example, starting from FISH, you can make the following word ladder to MAST: FISH, WISH, WASH, MASH, MAST Write a recursive program to find the word ladder given a start word and an end word, or determines whether no word ladder exists. Use the words.txt file (provided) as your dictionary of valid words. You program doesn’t need to find the shortest word ladder, any ladder will work if one exists.

Explanation / Answer

Solution :-

The below given Java code implements a word ladder program. It asks to user to enter the begin wird and end word and construct a word ladder by neighbour letters. This prigram is based on a graph search method.

The code begins here.

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