2048: Tips and Cheats to Get to the Final Tile

2048 is a new puzzle game where players combine two tiles of the same value into one tile that’s double the value of the first tiles. Although it has a very simple concept the game can get difficult very quickly. The first few times I played the game I only scored between one and two thousand points. After playing this addicting game non-stop for about a week I was able to figure out some great tips and even a small cheat that helped me get to the 2048 tile. 9game provided

The first tip I have for players that are having a hard time with the game is never swipe up. It sounds like a dumb thing to do, but as you have probably already noticed every time you swipe another tile appears, which can either have the value of 2 or 4. If you swipe in every direction (up, down, left, and right) all of your large values become placed in the center of the board making the outside ring almost all 2’s and 4’s. This makes it so much harder to combine small values into large values, because small tiles can appear on any side of the board. If we never swipe up, then all the small tiles will always stay at the top of the board and all the large ones will stay at the bottom. This makes it easy to combine smaller values at the top of the board and then move them down to combine them with larger tiles when possible.

As for the cheat I mentioned, I don’t really consider it as much of a cheat as I consider it a handy tool to get out of situations that could cause the game to end. If you swipe one direction and then back the opposite direction, it will prevent a tile from appearing, where you don’t want it to. For example, with the tip I gave never to swipe up you may sometimes find it very tempting to swipe up. Although I urge you to continue not swiping up, if you absolutely need to, you can swipe up and down fast enough that no numbers will appear on the bottom of the board.

I hope these tips will help you as much as they have helped me. If you’re wondering what happens when you get to the 2048 tile, a message pops up saying that you win and you have the choice to either start over or continue playing. The highest score that I’ve made it to so far is 32,020.

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