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LeetCode 971, Medium. Topics: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 20 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

You are given the root of a binary tree with n nodes, where each node is uniquely assigned a value from 1 to n. You are also given a sequence of n values voyage, which is the desired pre-order traversal of the binary tree. Any node in the binary tree can be flipped by swapping its left and right subtrees. For example, flipping node 1 will have the following effect: Flip example Flip the smallest number of nodes so that the pre-order traversal of the tree matches voyage. Return a list of the values of all flipped nodes. You may return the answer in any order. If it is impossible to flip the nodes in the tree to make the pre-order traversal match voyage, return the list [-1].

Examples

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

Constraints

  • The number of nodes in the tree is n
  • n == voyage.length
  • 1 <= n <= 100
  • 1 <= Node.val, voyage[i] <= n
  • All the values in the tree are unique
  • All the values in voyage are unique

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

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Last modified on September 7, 2026