LeetCode Entry

877. Stone Game

02.08.2026 medium 2026 kotlin rust

Even count pick game

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Problem TLDR

Even count pick game

Intuition

Alice can enforce all choices of Bob to be all evens or all odds.

Approach

• just know the trick

Complexity

• Time complexity: \(O(1)\)

• Space complexity: \(O(1)\)

Code

    fun stoneGame(p: IntArray) = 1>0

    pub fn stone_game(p: Vec<i32>)->bool{1>0}