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my trick is to start with and keep the big numbers at the top, and never ever press down unless you have no other move

i was wondering if the best solution is purely algorithmic, but i guess the random placement of new 2 tiles stops that. i couldn't tell if it was actually random or not, though

sometimes the new tile is a 4 and i want to kill myself!

i've got a slight hunch this might be an elaborate practical joke, because i've been playing in for enough hours straight to feel like it's mathematically impossilbe

have the biggest number in a corner too btw

i think?

the counter-intuitive up-down-up or left-right-left to get things to align by spawning new tiles is mb key

how many hours straight is enough, caek

With caek's "never press down" policy I got the 1024, with a score of 12688. Enough for tonight!

yeah the Caek Method has greatly improved my score, can't recommend it enough

got to about 14300 with the caek method. the 'endgame' of this is such a singular experience of being totally in the zone and madly frustrated simultaenously

Ha I went through all this pain a month ago with Threes before eventually concluding there was too much randomness in there for it to be worth persevering.

2048 is really ingenious, definitely have to not let myself play that anymore. The one thing is that the mechanic never quite locks into my brain, so I constantly end up zigging when I mean to zag and going "oh dammit that's not what I meant to do." Kinda needs an 'undo one move' feature but maybe that would ruin the fun?

Got miserably hooked on Super Crate Box last weekend - the instant respawn and fast pace really make "oh ONE more try to hit the number" tempting.

i went back, ugh, hi score 18,960

this could totally be the next tetris

WON thank god

Yesssssssssssssss. You sparked me into giving it another try. And I won, I won. *victory lap*

I'd like to thank this thread, my computer, and especially the caek method.

caek method was KEY, I doubt this is winnable otherwise...too many ways to get a 2 taking up space, crammed hopelessly behind 128s and 512s.

I looked at a clock last night and it was like 12:44 and I mentally slammed the two 4's together to create an 8 and felt pretty bad for awhile

Haha, yeah, this has major Tetris afterimage effects, maybe made worse by our constant encounters with numbers. It's like I'm seeing into the Matrix, maaan.

http://doge2048.com/

ha

had to come to that didn't it

http://www.pictures-of-nepal.com/2048-game-hack-cheat/

follow the rules and it's just a matter of time till you reach the 2048 goal

That's not a 'hack' or a 'cheat', it's a strategy. Grrr. And yes, it's the caek method - they say never press up, but the direction you avoid makes no difference, as long as you avoid one of them.

hey guys i heard about this awesome hack to win this game, the secret is to be good at it, pass it on

it's a strategy to achieve at least 7000 points, as a better starting point to win the game.

you have to/need to press up once in awhile, but only once in long while!

more important - stick the highest score to the corner and never let it out of there.

Yeah, we know.

yeah i didn't read the above

minimetro pretty good idea - better graphics would help that A LOT i think

http://goo.gl/BJiN12

references *whoosh*

references *whoosh*

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Damn you double post.

make your own: http://build-a-bird.tumblr.com/

ILX FLAPPY BIRD

I made one:

http://tinyurl.com/lte2szc

that is darling

OK, I beat 2048 and Doge 2048 and Numberwang 2048 and now please can I stop playing this game?

*twitches*

only after you will make one of your own:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/

and win the lol Flappy 2048:

http://logarithmic-flappy-2048.ajf.me/

http://louhuang.com/2048-numberwang/

so we're at the stage where every half-decent game idea has to be flogged to death by lol!!such random!?!?!! wankery now

yup

maybe need a special tag for this thread then

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/games/you-have-to-win-the-game/

(downloadable)

fun little platformer, this is the type of game I want to make. A flip screen retro looking platform maze game that's simple and stress-free. Perhaps with a little bit more to do but love the emulation mode on this one.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/28/5557840/threes-creators-express-puzzlement-sadness-over-2048-and-rampant

I can understand his annoyance at the 2048 thing, but NAGL to get your twitter followers to pile onto an article abt a kid who'd never seen your game and made a free sorta-clone of someone else's free sorta-clone of your game in Javascript as an experiment, didn't try to sell it or advertise it, got surprised by its success, and added a link to your game (which plays differently anyway) when called on it, imo

(haven't actually played Threes because last time I looked it was iOS only, now see it is on Android too, may check it out later; would prob not have checked it out if not for 2048. the Threes guy's blog post is less annoying than his tweet and subsequent flurry of outraged followers, but still, disrespecting Commander Keen makes me sad, even if it was no SMB - which was hardly the only 2d platformer to predate CK)

anyway, s'pose none of this is worth the mental space. You Have To Win The Game (two posts ago) is cute.

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i'm up to the text adventure part. quickest way to my heart :)