Problem context and objectives
Mission briefing
Game event engineer · Actions arrive faster than the world can resolve them
Process events in the exact order promised by the data structure: The Bounded Scoreline.
The wrong removal order changes gameplay and creates impossible replays.
How you win
- 1Recognize when Deque-optimized dynamic state matches the clues
- 2Keep this true after every move: the deque front is the maximum dynamic score within k indices of the current position
- 3Reach the result within O(n)
Rules and pressure
- Target cost: O(n)
- State rule: the deque front is the maximum dynamic score within k indices of the current position
Lesson 1 of 3
Build the best score ending at every index. Only the previous k indices are reachable; the deque front supplies their strongest positive boost.
Your call · Front score is 12 and current value is -10. Ending score?