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Two-player turn-based removal game where the player who makes the running sum of removed stone values divisible by 3 loses; determine whether Alice can force a win. The core challenge is analyzing optimal play by reducing stone values to residues mod 3 and reasoning about counts and parity rather than brute-force search.
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Leetcode 2029. Stone Game IX
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