vowels-game-in-a-string

vowels-game-in-a-string


Alice and Bob are playing a game on a string.



You are given a string s, Alice and Bob will take turns playing the following game where Alice starts first:




  • On Alice's turn, she has to remove any non-empty substring from s that contains an odd number of vowels.

  • On Bob's turn, he has to remove any non-empty substring from s that 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.



Return true if Alice wins the game, and false otherwise.



The English vowels are: a, e, i, o, and u.



 


Example 1:




Input: s = "leetcoder"



Output: true



Explanation:

Alice can win the game as follows:




  • Alice plays first, she can delete the underlined substring in s = "leetcoder" which contains 3 vowels. The resulting string is s = "der".

  • Bob plays second, he can delete the underlined 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.




Example 2:




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 <= 105

  • s consists only of lowercase English letters.


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