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HN Plays 2048 (democracy)

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A bit frustrating since people keep making bad moves.

It's is NOT the best move to always combine big numbers!!

You want to keep shifting the larger numbers over to the corner. If you combine numbers on the other side you have a large number on the wrong side and the game becomes unwinable.

In fact if you have combinable numbers on the wrong side you want to try hard to avoid combining them. (By shaking the board, and hoping to put a number in between the combinable ones.)

All this is telling me is that a lot of people are kind of bad at this game. :/

Just a friendly reminder, never ever move the highest number out of the corner.

Yep. Every time this happens in the crowdsource version I die a little.

The group just has to decide which corner.

Personally I prefer the lower left.

well, once it's in a corner it shouldn't really matter which one any individual prefers. Once it's past 512 you have really low odds of recovering from moving it out of the corner in a single player game, probably more like 128 in this group form.

Is this a proof that democracy does not work ? :)

actually...

It's broken for me!

There are no tiles, and I'm the only user online.

Right after an exceptionally dumb move is made, all activity seems to halt for just a moment, like everyone said "crap!" all at once.

Nice ! We should combat procrastination by recording IP addresses of players, and banning them from HN for a day.

This is the only way I'll be able to win :). Thanks!

edit: And we lost the first game.

It might be useful to record the inputs. Someone could train an AI to play 2048 like HN.

It's not really a hard game, just tedious since too many mistakes and you're finished. Sometimes a single mistake and it's over.

Democracy?? More like Chaos!

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