Won a few times and still keep picking it up. Now the Tetris dreams are starting; must stop.

This sort of clicked towards, oooh I don't know about 1:30am this morning.

Note: shameless parody plagarism, (original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386459), but this thread has 20x points.

Edit:

Actually all you need to store is the highest block achieved, and the number of times it's been hit. For instance, if you've only ever generated 2 8's, then you know that you've had 4 4's, and 8 2's...

Edit 2: Does the game allow four 2's to cascade into an 8? If so, maybe you could also store combo stats. It'd be way cooler to smash together four 256's than to smash together two 256's two times.

Not sure how that plays into the histogram.

You know you've had at least 4 4's, but you could have had more.

Upvoted you to show my anger! :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/WebAPI/Detecting_device_o...

Just in case anyone is looking at this and wants a direct link to play pavel_lishin's version, here's the raw github version: https://rawgithub.com/pavellishin/drop7/master/drop7.html

Side note: I got hooked on Drop7 during my first semester in college. I was fascinated by the game and wrote a simulator to pick the optimal move: https://github.com/keshavsaharia/Drop7Simulator

http://asherv.com/threes/

Nice clone but it's definitely a clone and so should be treated as such.

It's good to get paid for your work, even if it was fun.

EDIT: oops, there was a bug in the win/lose tracking so I probably missed out on a few wins. I fixed it now, so it should hopefully track it if someone else wins!

http://i.imgur.com/nf25AVZ.png

    var value = Math.random() < 0.9 ? 2 : 4;

I refuse to do these calculations in my head...

The author should do this, and create a counter of moves within the app.

:P I guess it was almost perfect attempt, and the quickest of mine so far (just a single 16 apart of 2048)

Ex:

x x x 2

x x 2 4

x 2 4 8

2 4 8 16

http://puu.sh/7rKEF.png

Great game though - wasted waaay too much time last night playing.

for (y=0; y<=1000; y++) { press(39); //right press(40); //down press(37); //left press(40); //down }

this gave me 1024 in couple of tries :D http://i58.tinypic.com/am9sh4.png

x x x x

x x x x

o o o o

o o o o

where at no point the same numbers next to each other allow collapsing. Maybe it's the problem not growing from the corner.. hm.

http://imgur.com/9FckZVX

At least I don't have to spend any more time on it.

My simple strategy was to keep the biggest blocks in a corner at all times.

Hah. It's binary crack.

There are a couple of brute force approaches: a) always pick the direction that will result in the most blocks to combine, b) always pick the direction that will result in the largest score.

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=3142737#post3...

Good for beta testing it.

Unlike with Threes, there's no real reason to use numbers since they're all powers of 2. If you used letters (A, B, C, ...) you could market it to non-HN sorts, and have a version of the game in a 5x5 grid, or, more to the point, in a 6x6 grid with letters A to Z. Most people in the world know the order of letters in English.

When you wrote "Good idea with the letters, but perhaps not necessary. People are happy with simple numbers. Just look at Sudoku which doesn't use A to I", I thought you hadn't noticed my mention of the larger grid, which was really the main point of my comment and maybe I should've worded it differently. Though if you'd begun your comment differently, i.e. "Good idea with the larger grid, but perhaps the letters aren't necessary. People are happy with simple numbers. Just look at Sudoku which doesn't use A to I", I wouldn't have felt the need to reply to correct a perceived communication mistake.

It's interesting that log_2 2028 is just above what you can represent in a single digit. That's very close to merging two 9s.

I'd like to actually see someone pit x, log_2 x, and letter(log_2 x) against each other in an A/B test of the game. The latter two are simpler, but the former might be more exciting, because of bigger numbers.

http://2048.mx/

:-) Hope that's fine. It might take an hour or so for the domain to be accessible for everyone due to DNS cache.

(in case folks on Android want to play it)

Also about your autoit "analysis" 36 + 150 + 13 != 162

Anyway managed to get to 1024 + 512 + 256 after that without random button mashing.

edit: Ok, some random friend just emailed me and told me to check out your game. This friend does not hang out at the online places I do. It seems to be on fire!

http://imgur.com/Y8oVTeQ

http://imgur.com/28YNfDS

That's pretty damn near optimal, might have had an extra 2 when doing the final collapse, can't remember.

But seriously, well done. :) Completely destroyed my productivity.

  2 * 1024 = 2048
  4 * 512  = 2048
  8 * 256  = 2048
  ..
  1024 * 2 = 2048
            20480 <-- minimum points

just because a 4 gets spawned 10% of the time, doesn't mean that there couldn't be a game where 4 does not get spawned

I hate you. ;)

Oh, no we have another Flappy Story in the making here!