2048 REVISITED

2048 is a single-player puzzle game created in March 2014 by 19-year-old Italian web developer Gabriele Cirull of, in which the objective is to slide the numbered tiles on a grid to combine them and create a tile with the number 2048. It is a type of sliding block puzzle, and is very similar to the Threes! Earl app, released a month. Cirull of created the game in a single weekend as a test to see if he could schedule a game from scratch, describing it as a clone of Veewo Studios' app in 1024 and getting the idea from Samir Romdhane's clone in 2048, and was surprised when feeling game received over 4 million visitors in less than a week, especially since it was just a weekend project. "It was a way to pass the time", he said.th the game is free to play, Cirull for having said that he was unwilling to make money from "something that [he] did not invent." He released a free version of the game app for iOS and Android in May, 2014.

2048 became a viral hit. The game has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "almost like Candy Crush for math geeks", and Business Insider called it "Threes on steroids." Due to the Popularity of 2048, it is sometimes stiking that Threes! It is a clone of it, rather than the other way around.

The fact that the game runs on open-source code has led to many additions to the original game, including a score leaderboards and improved playability touchscreen. Spinoffs have been released online, as apps and for the Nintendo 3DS, and include versions with elements from the Doge, Doctor Who, Flappy Bird and Tetris; there has also been a 3D version and ones with bigger or smaller grids. These Cirull sees as a "part of the beauty of open source software" and does not object to them "as long as they add new, creative Modifications to the game".

Gameplay

A completed game of 2048. The 2048 tile can be seen in the bottom-right corner.
2048 is played on a gray 4 × 4 grid, with numbered tiles that slide smoothly when a player moves them using the four arrow keys. Every turn, a new tile will randomly appea is in an empty spot on the board with a value of either 2 or 4 Tiles slide as far as possible in the chosen direction until they are stopped by either another tile or the edge of the grid. If two tiles of the same number collide while moving, they will merge into a tile with the total value of the two tiles that collided. The Resulting tile can not merge with another tile in the same move again. Higher-scoring tiles emit a soft glow.

A scoreboard on the upper-right keeps track of the user's score. The user's score starts at zero, and is incremented whenever two tiles combine, by the value of the new tile. As with many arcade games, the user's best score is shown alongside the current score.

A game of 2048 in progress.
The game is won when a tile with a value of 2048 Appears on the board, hence the name of the game. After reaching the 2048 tile, players can continue to play (beyond the tile in 2048) to reach higher scores. The maximum possible is 131.072 tile (or 217); the maximum possible score is 3,932,156; the maximum number of moves is 131.038. [citation needed] When the player has no legal moves (there are no empty spaces and no adjacent tiles with the same value), the game ends.

The simple gameplay mechanics (just four directions) allowed it to be used in a promo video for the Myo gesture control armband, the availability of the code underneath allowed it to be used as a teaching aid for programming, and the second-place winner of a coding contest at Matlab Central Exchange 2048 was an AI system that would play on its own.
2048 Games How to Play:

Drag your finger holding figures. When two of the same number of tiles in a row, they become a single tile!