1275. Find Winner on a Tic Tac Toe Game

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-winner-on-a-tic-tac-toe-game

Description

Tic-tac-toe is played by two players A and B on a 3 x 3 grid. The rules of Tic-Tac-Toe are:

  • Players take turns placing characters into empty squares ' '.

  • The first player A always places 'X' characters, while the second player B always places 'O' characters.

  • 'X' and 'O' characters are always placed into empty squares, never on filled ones.

  • The game ends when there are three of the same (non-empty) character filling any row, column, or diagonal.

  • The game also ends if all squares are non-empty.

  • No more moves can be played if the game is over.

Given a 2D integer array moves where moves[i] = [rowi, coli] indicates that the ith move will be played on grid[rowi][coli]. return the winner of the game if it exists (A or B). In case the game ends in a draw return "Draw". If there are still movements to play return "Pending".

You can assume that moves is valid (i.e., it follows the rules of Tic-Tac-Toe), the grid is initially empty, and A will play first.

Example 1:

**Input:** moves = [[0,0],[2,0],[1,1],[2,1],[2,2]]
**Output:** "A"
**Explanation:** A wins, they always play first.

Example 2:

**Input:** moves = [[0,0],[1,1],[0,1],[0,2],[1,0],[2,0]]
**Output:** "B"
**Explanation:** B wins.

Example 3:

**Input:** moves = [[0,0],[1,1],[2,0],[1,0],[1,2],[2,1],[0,1],[0,2],[2,2]]
**Output:** "Draw"
**Explanation:** The game ends in a draw since there are no moves to make.

Example 4:

**Input:** moves = [[0,0],[1,1]]
**Output:** "Pending"
**Explanation:** The game has not finished yet.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= moves.length <= 9

  • moves[i].length == 2

  • 0 <= rowi, coli <= 2

  • There are no repeated elements on moves.

  • moves follow the rules of tic tac toe.

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