Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat

Posted by kudu on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:04PM
from the gabrielecirulli.github.io dept.

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Re:Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat by ehaveman on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @08:55PM (#7389475)

i was so hoping this was true i scripted it (paste this into your chrome console):

function keyDown(keyCode) { var e = document.createEvent("Events");

    e.initEvent("keydown", true, true);
    e.keyCode = keyCode;
    e.which = keyCode;
    
    document.body.dispatchEvent(e);

}

controls = [ function() { keyDown(37); }, function() { keyDown(38); }, function() { keyDown(37); }, function() { keyDown(40); }, ];

i = 0; setInterval(function() { controls[i++ % controls.length](); }, 100);

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Re:Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat by bra1n on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:14PM (#7388745)

While you can get pretty far with it, the two times I tried this I still ended up with a filled board and "Game Over"... :(

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Re:Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat by joe_inferno on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:32PM (#7388860)

Got close to my high score, but did not beat game. may try again. probably won't since keeping the pattern is almost more work.

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