a. You have arranged a party to celebrate 31 December 2020 and you have invited all your  friends. To make the party successful, you came up with an interesting game called “Happy  New Year”. There are few rules in the game: i. All the members that will play the game must sit in a circular manner. ii. There will be two coins, which will determine the faith of the player. iii. If the both coins after flipping get ‘Heads’ or ‘Tails’ or viceversa, the player has to pass  the coin to the next player (sitting to his/her right). iv. If one coin after flipping gets ‘Tails’ and the other gets ‘Heads’, the player gets  eliminated and passes the coin to the next player (sitting to his/her right). v. The game continues until there is only one member left and he/she will get a surprise  gift. Write a method that finds out the winner of the ‘Happy New Year’ game, you will be given as input the  number of players playing and the coin sequences. [You must use recursion for solving this  problem.]

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a. You have arranged a party to celebrate 31 December 2020 and you have invited all your 

friends. To make the party successful, you came up with an interesting game called “Happy 

New Year”. There are few rules in the game:

i. All the members that will play the game must sit in a circular manner.

ii. There will be two coins, which will determine the faith of the player.

iii. If the both coins after flipping get ‘Heads’ or ‘Tails’ or viceversa, the player has to pass 

the coin to the next player (sitting to his/her right).

iv. If one coin after flipping gets ‘Tails’ and the other gets ‘Heads’, the player gets 

eliminated and passes the coin to the next player (sitting to his/her right).

v. The game continues until there is only one member left and he/she will get a surprise 

gift.

Write a method that finds out the winner of the ‘Happy New Year’ game, you will be given as input the 

number of players playing and the coin sequences. [You must use recursion for solving this 

problem.]

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