Whenever I want to just shut my brain off and mindlessly play a game, I have this game of 2048 on a 7x7 grid on my phone. I have been playing this same ongoing grid nearly every day, a few minutes at a time, for literally months. Because it is on a much larger grid than the standard 4x4, it takes nearly zero thought/effort and is difficult to actually lose (though definitely not impossible). Recently, I finally achieved a tile valued at 2,097,152. To be clear: you probably shouldn’t be too impressed by this. It really takes no skill to do this, just a lot of time. I thought someone might find this mildly interesting or something.

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Tall table listing the numerical values of successive tiles
tile # value
1 2
2 4
3 8
4 16
5 32
6 64
7 128
8 256
9 512
10 1024
11 2048
12 4096
13 8192
14 16384
15 32768
16 65536
17 131072
18 262144
19 524288
20 1048576
21 2097152
22 4194304
23 8388608
24 16777216
25 33554432
  • Solano@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    I switched from android to GrapheneOS because of battery life and non-easily-replaceable battery (the security is a bonus), and doing so exposed me to F-driod and the FOSS apps that brought back sanity from the enshittifcation of mobile apps, including cool little games like 2048. It’s a nice little game. Congrats on the score. Recently, I found an emulator for the TI-89 calculator and was surprised that TI had a free to download ROM OS for it on their website. I wouldn’t have found this stuff if I wasn’t pushed out of corporate walled hellscapes, something, something silver lining and all that.