Candies Bet Riddle

Snow and Tyrion are two mad logicians who love betting. They placed 11 Candies at the table and designed a small betting game, in which both of them needed to eat Candies turn by turn with the following rules:

Rule 1: One needs to eat at least one candy.
Rule 2: One cannot eat more than 5 candies.

The one that eats the last candy will lose. Snow won the toss and needs to start. How many candies must Snow earn to make sure that he wins the bet?




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