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Nice idea, but I suspect it's impossible to complete on a 4x5 grid.

An interesting addition might be the ability to wipe a line out if it's all of the same number.

edit: gah. this is really annoying me now because the controls to slide squares left or right only works about 50% of the time so I end up with lots of the same numbered squares adjacent to each other and no way of merging them. Which makes chaining a few squares together virtually impossible because at least 1 of every 3 left-right slides will fail:

http://www.armyofcrabs.com/rand/2048.png

At this rate somebody needs to create a 2048 homepage with links to the various versions.

Possibly inspired by the current xkcd comic (note the alt text)

http://xkcd.com/1344/

Edit: Whoops, it was put on github beginning 10 days ago. Just a coincidence, then, I guess.

Hmm, combining blocks by sliding in below the top a stack can leave the top of the stack floating in space when the new combined block merges with the block below it, and this feels weird. Then if you combine something with that floating block it will fall, closing up the gap and then potentially combine with the block it landed on.

YCombinator asks for solutions to the world's water, food and energy problems. Instead they get 37 incarnations of 2048.

Possible bug report: http://i.imgur.com/XwEiPVI.png

The bug is the two "4"s sitting on top of each other in the left column.

I did that by first sitting a 4 on top of a 2:

  4
  2
  64 16

Then dropping a 2 down on the column to the right:

     2
     v
  4
  2
  64 16

Then finally sliding that 2 left one before it had a chance to settle:

  4
  2  2<-
  64 16

Neat take on the game but if you get a low numbered piece stuck on the bottom row and then covered with higher number pieces it's impossible to use it.

They slide.

Not really tetris...

http://monosnap.com/image/llgAGJy1bAhtENWnPL8rKpIHMeAcET

A first approximation for a strategy would be to follow a boustrophedon, and keep 2, 4 and 8 near the top, e.g. something like this:

    .   .   .   .
    .   4   2   .
    8  16  32   .
  512 256 128  64

The timing seems horribly inconsistent - most good combos depend on "sweeping" your collapses, but it seems to "drop" the block without my request sometimes during merges.

Please implement a pause! Love it though. This really fundamentally twists both 2048 (threes) and Tetris.

Why alter the spacebar to be start over? It's the common key in tetris to drop the block!

When ever I want to grab one of my super awesome platform specific tools I tame my enthusiasm and say to myself: Yes, JavaScript and HTML suck, but we all suffer for a greater good - we can build platform independent solutions and not discriminate anybody for their processor architecture, operating system or browser. And then somebody slaps it directly into my face: IMPORTANT: This game only works on the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome browsers.

Economist Article from 2016: Some economists think that the startup bubble burst in 2014 due to the sudden appearance of games based on the number 2048, which caused nerds everywhere to drop their startups and merge powers of 2.

Pretty cool, I assume it is possible to win because a good strategy in the original was to only use 3 directions anyway. I might try it soon, but unlike 2048 you can't wait to think once things get tight.

I finally managed to complete it! I was very proud too - I managed to complete it with no residual blocks. Here is a bit of proof:

http://imgur.com/2fSkkNT

Update: Thanks for the response guys, I am seriously overwhelmed. I have added easy/hard levels to the game. [Hard level needs some really quick finger movements].

Can't wait to see someone mix in a bit of bird-flapping action.

This is by far the best. version. yet.

First, we kill the 2048 clones.

That was fun.

this game is addicting. :)

I loved this the most!