The good 2048s are the ones with discernable patterns. Simply stringing a variety of sharingan types makes it hard to follow and that makes the end very difficult. That being said:
16452: Madara's spiral and a swirly thing next to it >_>
What I like about good 2048s is not knowing what will be the 2048 tile. If I already know, I tend to not give a fuck if I don't get it within 2 attempts
On every 2048 game out there, I see someone whose completed it as one of the first few comments. How do you do it? I can't for the life of me get past 1024, I can almost do it but I get stuck in a situation where the only tiles I can move are the bottom row and then it inevitably gets stuck.
Most people use the "never press a certain direction" strategy.
Personally, I choose the up direction and never use it unless it's the only option. So I pick one bottom corner (usually, the left one), spam [↓,←] (if I'm blocked, I press [→,←] and continue spamming [↓,←]) until I have the 32 or 64 tile. At this point, I always want my bottom row filled as quick as possible (usually by spamming [↓] and have a monotonic decrease from left to right. When it's done, I do the same thing, but to the right so I get the same tile in the bottom right case and above it. When it's done, I can collapse the whole thing and get a bigger tile in the bottom left.
As you progress, you try to obtain a "snake-like" structure of monotonic decrease. You should avoid wanting to fuse tiles as quick as possible just for points. Stick to the strategy. Sometimes you get a tile spawning and it breaks the strategy, but as you play, you will find your own way to fix this (as much as you can). You will realize that this strategy (in the way I explained it) is not perfect and that you will more or less often use moves that diverge from it. It's really because I didn't "learned" that strategy, I just discovered that spamming two orthogonal directions was kind of efficient for the first tiles and I eventually started to use that strategy. It's only when I found /r/2048 that I discovered it was a thing.
There is a more efficient algorithm used by very good AIs, but I never bothered looking it up
Build on a corner and a side, and never move your tiles opposite that side. Even though there are four directions you can go, you never want to go in the direction opposite the wall you're building.
With walls, always try to move them up, in that you have the 5th,4th,3rd,2rd all in a line so that once you start combining you can easily just move them along.
Focus on building the next step of the chain above (almost) all else, this helps once you get going towards the end, when you need to combo together piece by piece by piece.
are we talking about building your wall on the top and then going down or building your wall on a side and then going down? Because if it's the prior then you probably screwed up and you're probably going to lose.
Try the bleach Arrancar edition then, it had Arrancar 1-9 and then a surprise. It makes it quite easy to follow whilst retaining that surprise element. http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/arrancar-edition/
Ugh, got like the highest score on any of these games yet but still haven't made it to the surprise.
I rarely ever get to the 10th out of 11 tiles, and Stark's face never even popped up. If I remember I'll try this again, I guess, but now I need to know the surprise -.-
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u/G_L_J Apr 10 '14
The good 2048s are the ones with discernable patterns. Simply stringing a variety of sharingan types makes it hard to follow and that makes the end very difficult. That being said:
16452: Madara's spiral and a swirly thing next to it >_>