Vowels Game in a String
Alice and Bob are playing a game on a text.
You receive a string s , Alice and Bob will take turns playing the following game where Alice starts first:
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On Alice's turn, she has to remove any non-empty subtext from
sthat contains an odd number of vowels. -
On Bob's turn, he has to remove any non-empty subtext from
sthat contains an even number of vowels.
The first player who cannot make a move on their turn loses the game. We assume that both Alice and Bob play optimally .
Produce true if Alice wins the game, and false otherwise.
The English vowels are: a , e , i , o , and u .
Input: s = "impoldevr"
Output: true
Explanation: Alice can win the game as follows:
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Alice plays first, she can delete the highlighted substring in s = "leetcoder" which contains 3 vowels. The resulting string is s = "der".
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Bob plays second, he can delete the highlighted substring in
s = "der"which contains 0 vowels. The resulting string is s = "er". -
Alice plays third, she can delete the whole string
s = "er"which contains 1 vowel. -
Bob plays fourth, since the string is empty, there is no valid play for Bob. So Alice wins the game.
Input: s = "bbcd"
Output: false
Explanation: There is no valid play for Alice in her first turn, so Alice loses the game.
Constraints
1 <= s.length <= 10^5sconsists only of lowercase English letters.
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