2048 Game. (Image from Neilvandyke.com)
The free Apple and Android App Store game, 2048, has quickly reached the top of the charts on the App Store – possibly due to its highly addictive nature.
Many smartphone users have been downloading this game.
How To Play
Your key objective to winning this game is to get an eventual tile with the number 2048.
The rules of the game are simple. You just need to match number tiles in the four directions as specified by your arrow keys (left, right, top and bottom). When you match two number tiles together, they will both merge and the resulting number will become the sum of the two tiles that have been matched. For example, if you match the two tiles bearing the number 2, they will then merge into a single tile bearing the number 4 on it.
Here are some tips and strategy on how to beat the 2048 game.
Understand the game objective fully
The goal of the 2048 game requires you to create a tile with the number 2048. But the main challenge is that you can only use the tiles that are available to you. At the same time, you are supposed to create this 2048 tile by combining as few tiles as possible, and without cluttering up your entire game board – to boost your score. If you can do this, you are on the path to winning.
Look out for where the next tiles will be coming from
Think carefully about where the next few tiles are likely to be coming from and how to match these together. The last thing you want is to be overfilling your game board with more and more unnecessary tiles.
Stay close to the corners
Try to stick as closely as possible to the corners – to improve your chances of winning. This will help to improve your scores and get tiles that bear larger numbers.
At any point in your game, the tile bearing the highest number on the grid should be positioned at one of the corners. This will increase your chances of success.
Make a line of pairs
Try and line up more pairs of tiles together and this will help you to make bigger tile combinations with less effort – thus boosting your chances of success at this game.
Stay calm and do not panic
To increase your chances, you should not get frustrated if something doesn’t go your way. Instead, simply stay calm and strategize. If you make rash moves because you are overly eager to get that 2048 tile, you will end up losing and the board will be completely choked up before you know it. So just stay calm and give yourself a chance to think. This is not a timed game, so you should not be in a hurry to play.
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i really liked this version with better UI Design, Clean and im addictive to this 2048 game – ANDROID –
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.puzzlegame2048&hl=en?
ITUNES – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puzzle-game-2048/id990246666?mt=8
what do you do if you are shifting all tiles to the top right and have the highest numbers in the top row and then…..the top three rows are full and no more tiles pop up UNLESS you shift Dow, which is a disaster?
This game is great.
Thank you for all these tips!
However, I prefer to play Ademio version that is more varied 😉
Only on Android 🙁
You’re welcome! Hope the tips continue to help.
3 tips to winning 2048 game:
TIP 1 – Do not use the up arrow key unless you have no moves left except that.
TIP 2 – Always try to keep the high valued blocks in the bottom row and try to arrange the scores on the block in the descending order from to Left to right (last row) and then right to left in the second last row in the pattern.
TIP 3 – After achieving the above pattern it will be just too easy to get the 2048 tile by merging the 8 and 8 tiles to get 16, 16 and 16 tiles to get 32 and go on until you get the 2048 tile by merging the 1024 and 1024 tile.
This is incorrect; the game does not allow you to combine tiles 8 and 4, only tiles of the same number can be combined.
I find it’s best to just keep my big tiles at the top, rather than the corners. This increases the chance of combining. Then, you just never press the down key.
Here’s my favorite iPhone version: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id847847096
That’s a useful tip too! I guess some players prefer their big tiles at the top, but others at the bottom. Both seem to work. 🙂