Random thing I noticed last week: there's a version of 2048 buried in the United Airlines iPhone app. Hamburger -> Games -> 2048.
Also in some inflight entertainment systems!
Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
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Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#102Cannot believe this is a decade old - will always remember playing 2048 on the NYC subway to school with my friends <3
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#103For those who haven't heard of Threes, I highly recommend giving it a try. It's the original game that 1024, 2048 etc were cloned from (and I think it's still the best by far). Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threes#Legacy
While it's unfortunate that the Threes team didn't receive a proper recognition, I believe the popularity of 2048 mainly comes from the fact that it can be, in some sense, "finished" unlike Threes . Yes, you can continue after 2048, but it was a good milestone that is initially hard but can be done relatively easily once you've got the hang of it. The clear milestone makes every game play much more disposable unlike…
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Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#104Here are the threads I could find with 20 or more comments. Smaller threads are listed in a collapsed reply. These are in chronological order for a change:
2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373566 - March 2014 (410 comments)
2048 AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379821 - March 2014 (189 comments)
2048 – multiplayer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384974 - March 2014 (113 comments)
2048 x 2 = 4096 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7396134 - March 2014 (24 comments)
2048 in the terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7398011 - March 2014 (88 comments)
2048 with Leaderboard and achievements, with Kivy (Python/OpenGL) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404515 - March 2014 (25 comments)
Show HN: 2048 in 2048 bytes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7406605 - March 2014 (54 comments)
2048 in 3D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7416777 - March 2014 (66 comments)
2048 in 4D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418219 - March 2014 (113 comments)
Flappy 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431047 - March 2014 (121 comments)
Show HN: Logarithmic Flappy 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432448 - March 2014 (64 comments)
HN Plays 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7433524 - March 2014 (81 comments)
Show HN: 2048 Tetris - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7435569 - March 2014 (60 comments)
2048 for physicists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7438567 - March 2014 (33 comments)
2048 Numberwang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439444 - March 2014 (110 comments)
Show HN: 2048 without numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443166 - March 2014 (46 comments)
Dropbox 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443379 - March 2014 (2 comments)
8402: 2048 from the other side - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446139 - March 2014 (53 comments)
2(048) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453543 - March 2014 (46 comments)
2048 in sed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7464294 - March 2014 (35 comments)
2048 game to the Atari 2600 VCS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466097 - March 2014 (22 comments)
2048 Solver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7473486 - March 2014 (38 comments)
Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484106 - March 2014 (208 comments)
2048 As A Service - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7510670 - April 2014 (52 comments)
2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535666 - April 2014 (45 comments)
2048 in 3D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543483 - April 2014 (51 comments)
Flappy 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637009 - April 2014 (32 comments)
2048 in Famo.us - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660206 - April 2014 (21 comments)
2048, success and me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704800 - May 2014 (222 comments)
Show HN: 2048 in Swift - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845441 - June 2014 (34 comments)
Implementing 2048 in 90 lines of Haskell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896187 - June 2014 (24 comments)
243 Game – inspired by 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7991773 - July 2014 (36 comments)
Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030413 - July 2014 (80 comments)
The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15327837 - Sept 2017 (46 comments)
The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15894126 - Dec 2017 (22 comments)
The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790338 - April 2018 (43 comments)
Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897283 - Sept 2018 (45 comments)
The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28310842 - Aug 2021 (50 comments)
Show HN: 1024, a 2048 Puzzle Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405510 - Aug 2022 (48 comments)
Show HN: Exponentile – A match 3 game mixed with 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39897112 - April 2024 (40 comments)
Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623814 - Sept 2024 (80 comments)
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#105383,392 points on the first try, using the new powerups. At that point I had a 16384, 8192, 4096, 2048, 1024, 256 and two 128's, but getting that extra 512 and then successfully folding the tiles into a 32768 likely wouldn't have been feasible, even if I had had more luck. I think this was enough for me for a while =D
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is nothing wrong with pointing out the origins of ideas and concepts, especially on a site like Hacker News. 2048 was much more popular than Threes, often to the point where many people are unaware of Threes at all, so I think it’s important in these kinds of forums to make sure people know where the game idea came from, and that the originators get credit.
This manifestation of the threes trope below everything 2048 related reminds me of a comment I recently read below a Stephen Wolfram related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406645 All: please don't repeat the usual Wolfram trope. (If you don't know what I mean by that, a decade's worth of explanation can be found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que ....) The issue is not that…
I saw that comment but didn't follow the algolia link.
I didn't realize Stephen Wolfram was dang's personal We Do Not Mention the Orangutan. I suppose that given the inevitable prevalence of clichéd back-and-forth tropes and exchanges on HN, there's little choice but to draw a line in the sand on specific versions and hope it serves as a stand-in for all of them.
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#107Here are the threads I could find with 20 or more comments. Smaller threads are listed in a collapsed reply. These are in chronological order for a change: 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373566 - March 2014 (410 comments) 2048 AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379821 - March 2014 (189 comments) 2048 – multiplayer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384974 - March 2014 (113 comments) 2048 x…
Here are the threads I could find with fewer than 20 comments—again in chronological order:
Ask HN: Why is the 2048 post so popular? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378022 - March 2014 (15 comments)
2048 was too easy : welcome 4096 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386557 - March 2014 (9 comments)
Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7388699 - March 2014 (3 comments)
2048 with undo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389112 - March 2014 (5 comments)
2048 in Augmented Reality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391322 - March 2014 (2 comments)
JS1k demo details: 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407055 - March 2014 (14 comments)
Show HN: 2048 with shareable replays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408918 - March 2014 (4 comments)
2048 Benchmark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408952 - March 2014 (4 comments)
How to win 2048 everytime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7410582 - March 2014 (6 comments)
Invisible 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418310 - March 2014 (4 comments)
Why Do I Find 2048 So Damn Addictive? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418806 - March 2014 (2 comments)
Words oh so great: 2048 meets Scrabble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419264 - March 2014 (5 comments)
Xkcd comic about 2048 game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7427895 - March 2014 (3 comments)
Flappy 2048 in HTML5 Canvas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428175 - March 2014 (17 comments)
Flappy 2048 AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432754 - March 2014 (2 comments)
HN Plays 2048 (democracy) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434051 - March 2014 (14 comments)
Show HN: Gameboy port of 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434529 - March 2014 (2 comments)
2048 in bash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7435174 - March 2014 (18 comments)
Flappy + 2048 side-by-side - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7436813 - March 2014 (4 comments)
All 2048 games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7438716 - March 2014 (4 comments)
2048 Directory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439663 - March 2014 (4 comments)
WebRTC 2-player 2048 on same board with matchmaking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445906 - March 2014 (8 comments)
2048.py - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446524 - March 2014 (2 comments)
2048 with Stats - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446608 - March 2014 (4 comments)
2048 game – How it started? Interview with the author - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448745 - March 2014 (3 comments)
1125899906842624 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448931 - March 2014 (3 comments)
Popular versions of 2048 with previews - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449160 - March 2014 (2 comments)
What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7450244 - March 2014 (13 comments)
2048 showcase - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459448 - March 2014 (2 comments)
Myo armband controlling 2048 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7463808 - March 2014 (4 comments)
Ask HN: Why doesn't 2048 have a '1' tile? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7464533 - March 2014 (2 comments)
Ask HN: how do you commercialize something like 2048? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7473770 - March 2014 (4 comments)
2048 Golf - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474824 - March 2014 (2 comments)
Code a 2048 bot on hackerrank - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481542 - March 2014 (8 comments)
Show HN: I found a way to 'cheat'/solve 2048 (With live demo) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7486762 - March 2014 (10 comments)
Free Open Source Software and the 2048 Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7490316 - March 2014 (9 comments)
Udacity Course: Make Your Own 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7536123 - April 2014 (2 comments)
Building 2048 in AngularJS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554348 - April 2014 (14 comments)
2048 for stars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7603732 - April 2014 (2 comments)
A 2048 spinoff to raise funds for cancer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606252 - April 2014 (3 comments)
A physics version of 2048 – stellar nucleosynthesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618293 - April 2014 (2 comments)
2048 on 8-bit Sega Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620914 - April 2014 (4 comments)
Show HN: 2048 Game of Thrones Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656436 - April 2014 (2 comments)
2048 in Idris - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668540 - April 2014 (11 comments)
2048 in Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7705947 - May 2014 (15 comments)
2048 in bash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708183 - May 2014 (6 comments)
(Yet another) parody of 2048, where you try to lose as fast as possible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7713249 - May 2014 (5 comments)
2048, Wolfram Style - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7721685 - May 2014 (6 comments)
2048 gestures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780359 - May 2014 (2 comments)
2048 in Erlang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869179 - June 2014 (14 comments)
Cubic 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022498 - July 2014 (4 comments)
Show HN: Gunoki – Trainyard-and-2048-inspired Puzzle Game for iOS and Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329527 - Sept 2014 (4 comments)
Twilio Plays 2048 – Multiplayer Without Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8498398 - Oct 2014 (3 comments)
Can AI beat 2048? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724754 - Dec 2014 (12 comments)
Play 2048, get paid in Bitcoins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9195167 - March 2015 (3 comments)
Zer0: addictive Web number-game like 2048 between two news from HN ^^ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202264 - March 2016 (5 comments)
Show HN: WebRTC Serverless 2-player 2048 Game with Annotated Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788147 - Oct 2016 (13 comments)
Show HN: Hex 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890753 - Dec 2017 (3 comments)
Ask HN: What are other awesome games like 2048? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16471374 - Feb 2018 (3 comments)
Show HN: Adversarial 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31922891 - June 2022 (2 comments)
x86-64 Operating System to Play 2048 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36516496 - June 2023 (3 comments)
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#108How did you do animations for the menus and stuff?
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#109This doesn't make any sense. We should be celebrating 8 years, 16 years and so on.
Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
#110[flagged]
2048 is a better game, which is why it's 100x or more popular than Threes.
I'm sure that you, a connoisseur, greatly prefer Threes, which is great. It can be fun to have a taste which is that of a very small minority.
But, to state the nearly tautological, the difference in popularity is because 2048 is better, in the view of the vast majority. It's more fun to play, and that's what makes a game good.