Create a 2048 tile while keeping at least one legal slide available.
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Create a 2048 tile while keeping at least one legal slide available.
Complete guide
2048 is a four-by-four sliding number puzzle where every move shifts the whole board. Equal tiles merge in pairs, and careful edge control matters more than rapid swiping.
Choose up, down, left, or right with the keyboard or the on-screen controls. Every tile travels as far as it can in that direction. When two equal values meet they merge once for that move, add their value to the score, and make room for one new low tile.
Creating a 2048 tile reaches the named goal and ends the round as a win in this version. The other ending occurs when all sixteen cells are occupied and no horizontal or vertical neighbors have matching values. Empty cells alone do not guarantee a useful plan.
Choose one corner for the largest tile and keep the neighboring edge ordered from large to small. Repeatedly moving away from that corner can pull the anchor into the middle, where small tiles surround it and prevent the next merge. Use the other rows as temporary workspace.
A tile can merge only once during a single move, so four equal tiles become two doubled tiles rather than one tile four times larger. Before moving, follow the complete row after compression and merging. Prefer moves that create both a merge and an empty cell while preserving the ordered edge.
No. A newly merged tile cannot merge again until a later move, which keeps rows such as 2, 2, 2, 2 predictable.
Yes. This version records the goal and ends the round when a 2048 tile first appears, so the result and move count remain unambiguous.
It is over only when the grid is full and no equal tiles touch horizontally or vertically, leaving no legal slide.