I first saw some guy playing it on the tube about 4 weeks ago, and I wondered what it was. And then I saw someone on a bus playing what looked very similar, so I nudged them and asked what it was.
And 3 weeks later, I am still playing the bastard. Not all day, everyday, but at least 10 per day, and I am still no further than 1024.
Good fun though.
*I should point out that I only recently got around to buying an XBox 360, so I is not current. But that Kinetic thing is bloody funny, especially when you have a 20st man throwing himself around the room, pretending to jump over waterfalls in a kayak.
I have it on my phone, I am shit on it having never got a block of more than 256.
There's a homebrew port on the Mega Drive - I'd probably be better at that although I'd probably get bored after five minutes and play Road Rash or Street Fighter II instead...
Apparently there is a version of 2048 whereby you can undo your steps if you go wrong which is how someone I know with far too much time on their hands managed to get a score of 16384.
Practice/experience counts for a lot with this game. It took me several weeks of an hour or so each day before I got my first 2048, but after a few months' experience you get a feel for what works, almost an instinctive feel for best move, such that I now get 2048 on about 40 to 50 per cent of attempts and have got to 4096 several times. My top score is in the low 60,000s, which I got with a 4096 and a 1024 on the board.
I find that 16384 anecdote incredible, if you mean on the standard 4x4 grid. 16384 is 2^14, and with only 16 squares on the board that sounds barely possible.
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