

The score accumulated as you get to a tile of a certain power of 2 is proportional to both the value of the tile and the exponent. What then, do you think, is the best (read lowest) score you can theoretically get on your way to a winning game? And what’s the maximum score you can theoretically get as you win the game? This isn’t exactly hard to do, but requires some explanation. Your score is a measure of how inefficiently you’ve played the game the ideally played game would leave just one tile of value 2048 and one newly spawned tile on the board. For every “merger”, you get as many points as the face value of the tile you just created by merger. You may have noticed that the game also scores you. I’ve myself never managed to get a tile higher than 2048, even when things looked promising. What the maximum is, when the computer isn’t working to help you, is a much harder thing to calculate. The maximum of 2^17 is only a theoretical maximum, then. It would take the computer conspiring with you to give you tiles in just the right order and at just the right place and so on. Now, getting your tiles to arrange themselves this way would take more than insane concentration and forethought. Giving a maximum tile of 2^17, or 131072. Which of course means that this can happen: You see the game is so designed that both 2s and 4s can be spawned. You would be almost correct, unfortunately. What do you think is the highest tile you could get to on the 4×4 board? But I thought I’d put down some perhaps interesting things I worked out about the game.įor instance, you must, if you’ve actually finished the game, know that you can play on past 2048. The object of the game is to get to the 2048 tile and the “You Win” banner. I daren’t start with any of these I’ve wasted enough time as it is. The 3D version will be decidedly easier to win than the 2D version, of course. There are also 3D, 4D, and tetris versions of the game if you care to look for them. (It’s been clinically proven to be second only to crystal meth… Now that isn’t true of course my friends from the humanities gave it up quite easily*. Now merge the 8 and 8 tiles to get 16, 16 and 16 tiles to get 32, until you get 2048 tile.Most people I know have played this game.

Make sure that the high value tiles are at the bottom of the board and arrange the tiles from descending order from left to right in the last row and right to left in second last row.ģ. Do not use the up arrow key until you cannot move any furtherĢ. Be lucky - Sometimes you have to be lucky to get the right numbers.īelow is a hack cheat from Pictures of Nepal that will allow you to get the Special 2048 tile:ġ. Build chains - Start a chain of numbers building on two 16's, 32, 64, and 128.ĥ. Focus on a corner - Focus on upper-right corner with the 64 and the 128.Ĥ. Collapse upwards - If you have 8's and 16's collapse them. Build numbers side to side - Build 4's and 8's on your side.Ģ. In 'the definitive guide to winning 2048,' The Daily Dot gives out ways to win as in the following:ġ. One small mistake can ruin the game especially in the later stage of the game. Then do the 'change-of-gravity' (change the arrow restriction accordingly). Recovery tip: To recover from the situation like tile =1024 and tile =2, use arrows including Left and push 1024 into a different corner.In that case, don't forget to 'fix' the 3rd and 4th rows by filling them in. Advanced technique: left arrow is useful to recover from the situation where the 4th column is unsorted.If you focus on building the 4th column, you'll learn how best to build the 3rd.
