Unless you changed the rules of your "game", there is no fair way to use confirmation time to determine a "winner".
There is NO exploit im here asking about the transaction confirmation time
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Any solo miner or mining pool operator can choose an odd or even timestamp in the blocks they solve if they want. They can create their own transaction and confirm it in their own block. That way they will always know if the timestamp will be odd or even when they create the transaction.