I've been playing this all day today. I basically created my own demise.

Creating a game that you, the creator, can't stop playing is the sign of a pretty good game. It's like "eat your own dog food", but with crack.

Too damn addictive.

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

I was reading all your "I wasted x hours on this" and I rolled my eyes - "My god, these guys fall for everything". Then I tried it. Couldn't sleep. Damn it!

Just be glad you are already immune to Tetris.

Best strategy (for me) seems to be to play it like tetris. Never ever use the up key and create a row at the bottom where everything collapses into it.

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

That sort of works, I've been using a similar strategy but switching what I call "bottom" whenever the moment suits.

The enemy gate is down.

YES!

I'll have to look into that way of playing.

Empirically, this got me much further than the corner (stair-stepped) approach.

Yes, I won twice yesterday with this strategy.

I launched a very similar called Even last week on Android -- http://bit.ly/even-game -- have fun!

Downloaded and installed. Can you please remove the almost mandatory google games sign in, or make it optional. I tries to connect every time I move between the game and the menu, and I don't want it to connect...

Evil evil game.

And to quantify the evilness -- 1024 and exactly 12000 points.

Ha. 2048 and 20000+. Now I can put it in my /etc/hosts.

"I am sorry '2048' users, 22 hours from now, I will take '2048' down. I cannot take this anymore."

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

just spent a few hours on this. I'm in love-hate relationships with the author now

Two hours straight and managed to get once to 1024.

I lost my whole damn day.

lost precious time for thesis writing! evil game!