Over the past month or so, 2048 has conquered the mobile Web. But if you’re looking for a way to effortlessly grab a high score, we’ve got your solution. I’ve left in the offending sentence this may, however, be considered a retraction.Beating 2048 might be far easier than it seems.Įarlier, we showed you one strategy and a few tips for winning the addictive tile game. The innumeracy of people from the humanities is no more a fact than that scientists can’t be good writers or speakers, or any other such similar nonsense. As stereotypes go, the science-vs-humanities divide is a silly and pernicious one. *It was pointed out to me that this dig at the humanities is uncalled for. This question has proven itself beyond me. The one question I would really like to answer but can’t is what happens when a monkey plays the game. My average score as I win the game is about 20500. CORRECTION: 23000-25000 is my average score at the end of the game.
My average score for winning games hovers around 23000-25000. The minimum is either 20480 or 18432 respectively. The answers to the maximum question I get are 9216 depending on whether exclusively 2s or 4s are spawned. If it’s all 4s that are spawned, the score will be 8 and 32 respectively. For a tile of 16, the score should be 16*(4-1) = 48. The answer also, of course, depends on whether 2s or 4s are spawned.Īssuming it’s all 2s, for instance, the score will be 8*(3-1) = 16 for a tile of 8. The score accumulated as you get to a tile of a certain power of 2 is proportional to both the value of the tile and the exponent.
What then, do you think, is the best (read lowest) score you can theoretically get on your way to a winning game? And what’s the maximum score you can theoretically get as you win the game? This isn’t exactly hard to do, but requires some explanation. Your score is a measure of how inefficiently you’ve played the game the ideally played game would leave just one tile of value 2048 and one newly spawned tile on the board. For every “merger”, you get as many points as the face value of the tile you just created by merger. You may have noticed that the game also scores you. I’ve myself never managed to get a tile higher than 2048, even when things looked promising. What the maximum is, when the computer isn’t working to help you, is a much harder thing to calculate. The maximum of 2^17 is only a theoretical maximum, then. It would take the computer conspiring with you to give you tiles in just the right order and at just the right place and so on. Now, getting your tiles to arrange themselves this way would take more than insane concentration and forethought. Giving a maximum tile of 2^17, or 131072. Which of course means that this can happen: You see the game is so designed that both 2s and 4s can be spawned. You would be almost correct, unfortunately. What do you think is the highest tile you could get to on the 4×4 board? But I thought I’d put down some perhaps interesting things I worked out about the game.įor instance, you must, if you’ve actually finished the game, know that you can play on past 2048. The object of the game is to get to the 2048 tile and the “You Win” banner. I daren’t start with any of these I’ve wasted enough time as it is. The 3D version will be decidedly easier to win than the 2D version, of course. There are also 3D, 4D, and tetris versions of the game if you care to look for them. (It’s been clinically proven to be second only to crystal meth… Now that isn’t true of course my friends from the humanities gave it up quite easily*. Most people I know have played this game.
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