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Re: 9007199254740992

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Post by mynameishere »

deletes wrote: post #3

And the productivity goes down by the same factor.(2^53 btw ) I finally reached the 2048. :) I think I understand now why candy crush is so popular. > 8192. > 16384 and I'm done. Manually There needs to be a save feature.

Did you get to 16384 manually? This is what I got after (roughly) 12000 random moves:

http://imgur.com/EnROFm9

Can any math people figure out how many years it would take to finally end this? (Not win, just lock it up).

Re: 9007199254740992

#25

Post by j_m_b »

This is nothing but a pure button masher... just hit the keys real fast. Use a strategy of "shaking" e.g. hit left,right quickly in succession a bunch of times to fill the board followed by a "circle" e.g. up left down right a bunch of times. I really don't like hating on a HN submission, but either this game is very lame or I am missing the point entirely. :P

Re: 9007199254740992

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Post by ghusbands »

mynameishere wrote: post #24
deletes wrote: post #3

And the productivity goes down by the same factor.(2^53 btw ) I finally reached the 2048. :) I think I understand now why candy crush is so popular. > 8192. > 16384 and I'm done. Manually There needs to be a save feature.

Did you get to 16384 manually? This is what I got after (roughly) 12000 random moves: http://imgur.com/EnROFm9 Can any math people figure out how many years it would take to finally end this? (Not win, just lock it up).

I locked up a board manually in about 10 minutes, with intent. Someone skilled should be able to do it in less.

http://i.imgur.com/zyqDtZi.png

(My technique: Toggle left-right until no movement happens. Tap up. Repeat from start.)

Re: 9007199254740992

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Post by etfb »

j_m_b wrote: post #25

This is nothing but a pure button masher... just hit the keys real fast. Use a strategy of "shaking" e.g. hit left,right quickly in succession a bunch of times to fill the board followed by a "circle" e.g. up left down right a bunch of times. I really don't like hating on a HN submission, but either this game is very lame or I am missing the point entirely. :P

It's kind of absurdist humour. HN has been full of responses to the rather clever 2048 game lately -- 2048 in HTML5, 2048 in the smallest number of bytes, the 2048 AI solver, 2048 in Brainfuck, 2048 in Latin, etc etc etc. This is amusing to me because the subject line looked almost like one of those obnoxious Bitcoin transaction posts, thus bringing together HN's latest fad with its eternal obsession, in my mind at least.

Now, complete this sentence: 2048 on HN will jump the shark when someone posts...

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