Google | OA 2018 | Lottery Game
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Several coupons are placed in a row, and to win the prize you need to pick at least 2 coupons of the same value. You can only pick consecutive coupons from the row. Each coupon costs 1 coin, find the minimum number of coins needed to obtain the prize or, -1 if it's not possible.

Example 1:

Input: coupons = [5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
Output: 4
Explanation:
Because you can buy coupons with values [3, 4, 2, 3] or [4, 2, 3, 4]

Example 2:

Input: coupons = [3, 6, 1, 9]
Output: -1
Solution

Java: https://leetcode.com/playground/AwwvRZcc
Time complexity: O(n).
Space complexity: O(n).

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