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After 8 steps, I "won" after reaching the following configuration (all on the edges, from top-left clockwise):
16, 584, 26, 6, 18, and 7
That's not numberwang, according to the official definition [1]
[1] D. Mitchell, B. Russell, A. Turing, and R. Webb. Numberwang determination and the Entscheidungsproblem. Principles of Mathematics and Computation, 1944. Cambridge Press 14(2).
This is my favorite clone bar none. After about 5 seconds of playing I was giggling, as I remembered the sketches.
Found a bug you might want to look into: After 8 steps, I "won" after reaching the following configuration (all on the edges, from top-left clockwise): 16, 584, 26, 6, 18, and 7 That's not numberwang, according to the official definition [1] [1] D. Mitchell, B. Russell, A. Turing, and R. Webb. Numberwang determination and the Entscheidungsproblem. Principles of Mathematics and Computation, 1944. Cambridge Press 14(2)…
Found a bug you might want to look into: After 8 steps, I "won" after reaching the following configuration (all on the edges, from top-left clockwise): 16, 584, 26, 6, 18, and 7 That's not numberwang, according to the official definition [1] [1] D. Mitchell, B. Russell, A. Turing, and R. Webb. Numberwang determination and the Entscheidungsproblem. Principles of Mathematics and Computation, 1944. Cambridge Press 14(2)…
No, "That's numberwang" does not indicate winning nor the end of the game. It just pops up at random throughout the game.
C:\> TWENTY48
Loading...
Ready.
You are in a darkened room. On the floor in front of
you are sixteen tiles, arranged in a grid. The tiles
are labelled A1, A2, A3, A4, B1 and so on up to D4.
There is a two here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile D3.
> GET ALL
The numbers appear too strongly glued to the tiles.
> INVENTORY
You have a copy of On Lisp by Paul Graham, a thing your
Aunt gave you that you don't know what it is, and a
small leaflet.
> READ ON LISP
Time passes. You have a profound enlightenment experience.
Sadly, this does not help you win the game.
> READ LEAFLET
"WELCOME TO TWENTYFORTYEIGHT!
TWENTYFORTYEIGHT is a game of numbers, addition and high
bits. In it you will explore some of the most tedious
territory ever seen by Hacker News readers. No computer
will be without one!"
> GO LEFT
Some numbers move, and a new number appears!
There is a two here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile C1.
There is a two here, on tile D1. [Footnote 6]
> FOOTNOTE 6
There are no footnotes.
> GO UP
Some numbers move, some change, and some new numbers
appear!
There is a four here, on tile A1.
There is a two here, on tile B1.
There is a two here, on tile D4.
>GO DOWN
Some numbers move, and a new number appears!
There is a four here, on tile C1.
There is a two here, on tile C4.
There is a two here, on tile D4.
There is a two here, on tile D1.
>PANIC
Not surprised.
>QUIT
Amazed you survived this long.
Your score is 4, out of a possible umpty squillion and six.
Good bye!
C:\>
C:\>
C:\> DEL TWENTY48.EXE
C:\>I think I should have won by now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hokoh94hujyf2j/Screenshot%202014-... I thought it played normally, and it does for a while, but it always eventually seems to randomly revert your high tiles (I verified that I had at least 1024 by checking the debugger). [edit:] Ah, I found the code. It's possible to win but you have to survive the small chance that it will perform a random merge and destr…
EDIT: I just followed the arrow keys around in circle and got 7056. That's pretty, pretty, pretty good.