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Re:Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece by kaoD on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:09AM (#8031258)
As far as I can remember 2048 isn't even always beatable by bots due to its random nature, so I suspect your literal 15 beats in a row aren't that literal.
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Re:Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece by T-hawk on Monday July 14, 2014 @04:56PM (#8033176)
2048 isn't always beatable by the best known bot. I don't know if anyone has proven either way whether 2048 is guaranteed solvable by a perfect bot for all possible random spawns. At the least, no one has found a counterexample like how Tetris has a guaranteed loss with a long enough string of S and Z pieces.
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Re:Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece by kaoD on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:06PM (#8056328)
To be honest you're right, I'm just based on the best known bot and intuition.

Seems like a good math problem.

[EDIT] http://stackoverflow.com/a/22498940 won 100 out of 100 games using expectimax. 100 are not a lot of games, but hey.

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