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Re: 2048

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Post by yeldarb »

seventytwo wrote: post #84
yeldarb wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep! http://i.imgur.com/nf25AVZ.png

Damn... Nice job. Did you use any particular strategy? Obviously the random "birth" of new tiles adds an element of luck to winning, but I'm sure you must have used some technique!

I try to keep the highest numbers at the top row (ideally with the highest in a corner, next highest next to it, next highest next to that, etc).

I'm pretty sure I never used the down arrow in this game (sometimes you have to). If your high numbers end up in the middle you're kind of screwed.

Re: 2048

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Post by BoppreH »

Ethan_Mick wrote: post #33

Great game! Love the simplicity! I played a round, and got to 512. But toward the end I wasn't sure if I was actually playing with a strategy, or just pressing buttons randomly with some thinking involved. So I built a script to randomly press the arrow keys[0]! I let it play a few games, and the highest it got to was 128 before consistently losing. So I guess you'll need some decent strategy to get to 2048. 0 - http…

If you remove one key it'll get to 256. I removed the `down` key and larger blocks started gathering on top, which was advantageous.

Re: 2048

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Post by richardlblair »

terabytest wrote: post #102
richardlblair wrote: post #48

Fuck you. okay, awesome game. Still, fuck you.

I kind of hate myself too, I haven't been able to do anything other than playing since I finished building the game :P

I find it funny that you knew exactly what I meant by my comment, but HN decided to down vote me into oblivion.

Whole well. That's HN for yea.

Re: 2048

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Post by smikhanov »

wmeredith wrote: post #5

No one has mentioned it yet, but this is an in browser version of the excellent iOS app Threes: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/30/addictive-ios-puzzling-com... (no affiliation, just a fan)

It's much better than Threes because there's not a single reason why Threes should take almost 1 min to start on iPhone 4S.

Re: 2048

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Post by stanmancan »

I just repeat Left => Up => Left => Up until I can't move any further, then "Right => Up => Left" before going back to the left up combo. Keeps the largest values top left and the values decrease towards the bottom right. Stacks the values well for combining and you can easily get 512 => 1024 without even looking.

Re: 2048

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Post by chidevguy »

pedrocr wrote: post #54

I think I have the beginning of a solution. The end result should be 2048 on the top-right corner (for the explanation). Always keep the highest value there. To do that never do a down without the right column filled and never do a left without the top row filled. Within those restrictions keep the top row in ascending order by building numbers on the left of the second row, so that they will match above and cascade…

I was able to get 2048 building off of your solution. As you said, always keep your highest number in the top right corner. Try to build the next highest numbers up along the right edge, so that you have say, 256, 128, 64, 32 along the right edge. Always keep 4 numbers there, and only use up/down/right. Then just focus on building whatever number you need next to double the bottom right number, so that you can "chain up" numbers along the right edge and double your highest number in the top right.

Kind of hard to explain in words, but hopefully that helps!

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