# 1388. Pizza With 3n Slices

<https://leetcode.com/problems/pizza-with-3n-slices>

## Description

There is a pizza with 3n slices of varying size, you and your friends will take slices of pizza as follows:

* You will pick **any** pizza slice.
* Your friend Alice will pick next slice in anti clockwise direction of your pick.
* Your friend Bob will pick next slice in clockwise direction of your pick.
* Repeat until there are no more slices of pizzas.

Sizes of Pizza slices is represented by circular array `slices` in clockwise direction.

Return the maximum possible sum of slice sizes which you can have.

**Example 1:**

![](https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/02/18/sample_3_1723.png)

```
**Input:** slices = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
**Output:** 10
**Explanation:** Pick pizza slice of size 4, Alice and Bob will pick slices with size 3 and 5 respectively. Then Pick slices with size 6, finally Alice and Bob will pick slice of size 2 and 1 respectively. Total = 4 + 6.
```

**Example 2:**

![](https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/02/18/sample_4_1723.png)

```
**Input:** slices = [8,9,8,6,1,1]
**Output:** 16
**Output:** Pick pizza slice of size 8 in each turn. If you pick slice with size 9 your partners will pick slices of size 8.
```

**Example 3:**

```
**Input:** slices = [4,1,2,5,8,3,1,9,7]
**Output:** 21
```

**Example 4:**

```
**Input:** slices = [3,1,2]
**Output:** 3
```

**Constraints:**

* `1 <= slices.length <= 500`
* `slices.length % 3 == 0`
* `1 <= slices[i] <= 1000`

## ac

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