It's a game with two players. Given a dictionary of words, a word S chosen from the dictionary to start with, and a word T also chosen from the dictionary as the winning word, which will be described below, the two players take turns to choose a word from the dictionary, satisfying that the first letter of the chosen word is the same as the last letter of previous word. Each word could be chosen more than once.
Suppose they play exactly n rounds. At the last round, if the player (the first one if n is odd, the second one otherwise) chooses the winning word T, he wins. To your surprise that, the two players are not so clever that they choose words randomly.
Here comes the question. How many different ways will the first player win if they play no more than N rounds, among all the possible ways satisfying all the conditions above?