Design a Tic-tac-toe game that is played between two players on a n x n grid.
You may assume the following rules:
- A move is guaranteed to be valid and is placed on an empty block.
- Once a winning condition is reached, no more moves is allowed.
- A player who succeeds in placing n of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.
Example:
Given n = 3, assume that player 1 is "X" and player 2 is "O" in the board.
TicTacToe toe = new TicTacToe(3);
toe.move(0, 0, 1); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| | |
| | | | // Player 1 makes a move at (0, 0).
| | | |
toe.move(0, 2, 2); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| |O|
| | | | // Player 2 makes a move at (0, 2).
| | | |
toe.move(2, 2, 1); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| |O|
| | | | // Player 1 makes a move at (2, 2).
| | |X|
toe.move(1, 1, 2); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| |O|
| |O| | // Player 2 makes a move at (1, 1).
| | |X|
toe.move(2, 0, 1); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| |O|
| |O| | // Player 1 makes a move at (2, 0).
|X| |X|
toe.move(1, 0, 2); -> Returns 0 (no one wins)
|X| |O|
|O|O| | // Player 2 makes a move at (1, 0).
|X| |X|
toe.move(2, 1, 1); -> Returns 1 (player 1 wins)
|X| |O|
|O|O| | // Player 1 makes a move at (2, 1).
|X|X|X|
Follow up:
Could you do better than O(n2) per move()
operation?
Java Solution :
class TicTacToe {
int[] rowCounter;
int[] colCounter;
int diagLeft;
int diagRight;
int n;
/** Initialize your data structure here. */
public TicTacToe(int n) {
this.n = n;
rowCounter = new int[n];
colCounter = new int[n];
diagLeft = 0;
diagRight = 0;
}
/** Player {player} makes a move at ({row}, {col}).
@param row The row of the board.
@param col The column of the board.
@param player The player, can be either 1 or 2.
@return The current winning condition, can be either:
0: No one wins.
1: Player 1 wins.
2: Player 2 wins. */
public int move(int row, int col, int player) {
int move = (player == 1) ? 1 : -1;
rowCounter[row] +=move;
colCounter[col] +=move;
if(row == col)
diagLeft +=move;
if(row == n-col-1)
diagRight +=move;
if(rowCounter[row] == n || diagLeft == n || diagRight== n || colCounter[col] == n)
return 1;
else if(rowCounter[row] == -n || diagLeft == -n || diagRight== -n || colCounter[col] == -n)return 2;
else
return 0;
}
}
/**
* Your TicTacToe object will be instantiated and called as such:
* TicTacToe obj = new TicTacToe(n);
* int param_1 = obj.move(row,col,player);
*/