Flip Game II -- LeetCode

Posted 2020-08-04 Coder and Writer

You are playing the following Flip Game with your friend: Given a string that contains only these two characters: + and -, you and your friend take turns to flip two consecutive "++" into "--". The game ends when a person can no longer make a move and therefore the other person will be the winner.

Write a function to determine if the starting player can guarantee a win.

For example, given s = "++++", return true. The starting player can guarantee a win by flipping the middle "++" to become "+--+".

Follow up:
Derive your algorithm‘s runtime complexity.

思路：递归求解。

 1 class Solution {
 2 public:
 3     bool canWin(string s) {
 4         for (int i = 1; i < s.size(); i++)
 5             if (s[i] == ‘+‘ && s[i-1] == ‘+‘) {
 6                 s[i] = s[i-1] = ‘-‘;
 7                 if (!canWin(s)) return true;
 8                 s[i] = s[i-1] = ‘+‘;
 9             }
10         return false;
11     }
12 };