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I'm gonna call fake on this one.
With enough tries anything is possible. There is probably even a person who ascended nethack on his first try (using the wiki of course, we're still talking things with p > 0) and didn't play it again because it's too easy and boring.
Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224 ) and a spinoff called 2048 ( http://saming.fr/p/2048/ ). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them. I discovered Threes…
Programmer Step #2 - write an automated solver :)
There are a couple of brute force approaches: a) always pick the direction that will result in the most blocks to combine, b) always pick the direction that will result in the largest score.
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Please allow me to throw money at you somehow
Yes! At the very least put up a BTC or Dogecoin address we can send donations to!
Nice clone but it's definitely a clone and so should be treated as such.
booom 3688 http://awesomescreenshot.com/0db2gytp66 (is that good??)
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How many reached 2048?
The latest stats show no "game-win" events :P It might just be a matter of time though. EDIT: oops, there was a bug in the win/lose tracking so I probably missed out on a few wins. I fixed it now, so it should hopefully track it if someone else wins!
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Programmer Step #2 - write an automated solver :)
I thought about this for 5 minutes and really got nowhere. Can anyone come up with a nice analytic way to think about an algorithm? There are a couple of brute force approaches: a) always pick the direction that will result in the most blocks to combine, b) always pick the direction that will result in the largest score.