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That was fun! But I was able to solve the puzzle by continually rotating the same direction.

I bet this was tried, but what's play like with the same game mechanics of this version, but with the original game play, where each move gives you a new block?

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> But I was able to solve the puzzle by continually rotating the same direction.

I’m not gonna ruin the original game’s mechanics for anyone who hasn’t already had them ruined, but I will say I recently tried exactly this strategy in the original and it gets you surprisingly far. But it’s definitely not a winning strategy.

I've spent unhealthy amounts of time playing 2048, and so far the best strategy I have come up with is never swipe up unless absolutely necessary and even then swiping up will likely cause the game to end in the next few moves (unless you get lucky and resolve the stuck block in some way)

In 2048 I find alternating between right and down swipes goes really far. Or any other 2 adjacent directions. I know I made it to 8192 at least once and perhaps 16384 - not by just alternating swipes of course.

2048 was similarly flawed (cycle up, right, down, left to win), so I doubt a new block on each turn will solve the issue any more than it did for the original.

Well, shit.

Just tried it and it didn’t work.

I just tried this a few times, I don't win. I get to 256, even tried on different implementations.

Threes, which is what 2048 was ripped from, is not solvable this way.

Mhh it could be tried yes! It is a small idea I need to improve! Normally, you would not have the best solution if you rotate in the same direction, but yes it's not really fun to win even doing that :/ Thanks!

Sure that solves the puzzle in 27 moves. So try to solve it in less moves.

It doesn't feel very engaging - it just becomes a game of golf.

Or more like a lock combination. I wasn't aware the blocks weren't random.

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