2048 Strategy

Play 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli here: git.io/2048
In this video I give you all of the strategies I have developed for the browser-based game 2048. I was able to consolidate up to a 4096 block using the strategies outlined above so hopefully these tips and tricks will help you understand how to go about beating this addictive game.

[@aljazfrank8586]

this guy is already in 2048 while we are still in 2017

[@kgratia4748]

He's not talking about the year. It's not even possible. And LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@simonvanprooijen]

@@kgratia4748 funny

[@rosieanne9723]

Well it’s 2019 now and I still play

[@stevx007]

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[@adamaguilar3947]

Wooooooooosh

[@vmipsychmajor]

Using your corner strategy, I just increased my high score from 6,896 to 11,396. I'd never ever seen the 1,024 block before!

[@douglaslawrie3449]

vmipsychmajor i went from 6000 to 33000 but i figured this out by myself.

[@douglaslawrie3449]

***** thanks mate. but i shared my highscore on instagram and my friends laughed at me because they either didn't know the game or they were better.

[@dawitk6040]

Sane

[@keiral.9305]

I went from 28000 to 49000

[@casperras]

I never seen the 16384 block before

[@sagaevan9641]

Why am I watching this. I don't even play 2048.

[@rshramik6550]

hahahahha same here

[@mlgtorito1774]

Evan Biesaga what

[@papayalol]

Why are you everywhere I go.

[@kgratia4748]

gamer 19 gamer 18 🙄

[@justingardner4942]

yer boi

[@djfabito8]

i actually discovered this strategy by me alone, is a surprise watching this here

[@karlainpink6305]

DOMINATOR, so?

[@groxart4811]

same

[@gujju_cousins8550]

Kay Cee its an accomplishment

[@anseldejong]

Same

[@djfabito8]

@@karlainpink6305 so what

[@tohopes]

Ew, up-left? I play toward down-right.

[@4-CQL]

Both work. It's really just which way your brain perceives better.

[@Dillon000]

Down left for me

[@tohopes]

Now I want to see a survey.

[@iluvspoongeebubble]

Down left

[@4-CQL]

Dillon Kearns I use whichever would work the best with what tiles i get.

[@thomassaurus]

Its weird watching someone with a different style, I button smash into the bottom right corner =P

[@JustFizzyDance]

It's basically the same thing, with a different corner :) I saw another guy smashing into the right top corner.

[@MasterAtanas]

just rotate your screen or watch the video upside down

[@makytondr8607]

oh, I expected some super awesome genius technique to win this game but I joust found what I have already discovered myself... :D

[@rxzerspamsl2134]

Maky Tondr well he is doing this for other people who haven’t

[@angulan]

Then be happy that you're a super awesome genius too

[@Dra3oon]

Didn’t realize he was joking until the end when he said he one got at 4096. He was joking right?

[@svahn1]

@@Dra3oon im not sure what you're asking but 2048 is not the largest block you can get. You can go to 4096, 8192, and so on. You "win" the game when you get a 2048 tile but you can still continue afterwards.

[@lidiaparsaulian1447]

@@Peaneslol yes definitely

[@matrixphijr]

In a strategy video for the game 2048, he never actually wins a game of 2048.

[@GamerVsGenius]

If you would like us to do a strategy guide for another game, let us know which one in the comments.

[@Dartmorin]

Banished

[@jamesonelvy5949]

mud and blood 2

[@ecraftertheminecrafter320]

Hi can you check out my channel I appreciate it thanks :)

[@christophergudgeon9902]

dark souls 2

[@symix.]

+GamerVsGenius WORLD FO TANMFJKLFDA

[@superkennethcheung]

I pretty much figured out all of these on my own and it took me a HELL of a lot of time! It would have been better if I've seen this video before, and for all of those who can't reach 2048, just work on it! You can get there!

[@jonathanfontanilla9146]

Still I can't understand 🥺

[@pearl0868]

Thanks so much! I tried this strategy and got to 2048!

[@rustyanvile]

I personally like the "Snake" strategy better and have gotten ridiculously high scores with it (479476 is my current high score) it's similar to this one in where you stick the highest number in a corner, but then you go with second highest next to that and in the same direction third highest next to that then when you hit the end you move over 1 and go the opposite direction until you hit another wall and you do this until you have no more spots left

[@truennn]

Can confirm, used to play back in the day and used this strat, almost got to the 16k tile.

[@truennn]

Actually I used the snake strategy, it's similar to this.

[@cytos]

I already knew this strategy and dear god it works wonders.

[@TechKid91Production]

Dude, THANKS for this video. I just got 2048 with a score of 20,something (phone died) after having the app installed for months! Prior to learning your strategy: I kept getting stuck at no more than 4,000 points.

[@sinnersavedbygracethrufait8933]

I beat my record on the second go. Thanks for sharing! 😀

[@crazy4whoo]

Lock down has lead me to this game and now I'm very glad this video exists.

[@ClownOwO]

The only rule i ever followed before was "don't swipe down" and i'd line up all my numbers in order so I could just swipe through them all (it's super satisfying) so maybe i'll try this strat the next time my game ends. (right now i'm at a 4096 tile with a 2048 next to it and then a 512)

[@spoopypastor3246]

GamervsGenius: "so you wanna avoid hitting the down button" me:**puts the highest number in the bottem left corner**

[@graceandglory2010]

I'm not a gamer at all, just a little Sudoku, but I need to win 2048 to get the coordinates for a Geocache! You are a great teacher!

[@davebryan1890]

Did you get it ?

[@chautran7295]

Thanks for being a great person

[@maxbell7897]

This really helped thanks!

[@xort3d]

You have given a good basic strategy, but once you get your "home row" to decent numbers i actually found switching to the opposite side (up right instead of up left etc) to consistently achieve high scores. My highest score right now is 78012 which is approaching the 8192 tile.

[@thebestgamer7283]

It helped so much! Thank you

[@hawktheeye]

Thanks a lot, that was awesome

[@almajoydeleon9932]

Thank you!! From 8k to 11k 🥳🥳

[@AugustiniandeJuanPierre]

Interesting how adding an additional and simple parameter results in a pattern.

[@MakinPandai]

i actually figured it out myself and yeah by that strategy i won my first 2048 game. I like to put it on right upper corner tho

[@palmattu7506]

My strategy is to use huge 2048. High score on 10x10 is 109,832, 8x8 is 1868 6x6 is 1,064 5x5 880 4x4 2,368 3x3 is 500. Editz: took me a long time.

[@twltheakumaandoni9025]

Thanks for the tip. I got to 2048 because of it.

[@handupandu6000]

thanks for teaching people this. my dad taught me this when i was 5 and now my best is 60000 and i got the 4096 tile twice :)

[@gonplays5478]

It's been 3 days since i started playing this game and I got the 16384 tile :D

[@v01dy64]

@@gonplays5478 WHAT

[@gonplays5478]

@@v01dy64 yes

[@gonplays5478]

@@v01dy64 and the day after i wrote this comment I ruined it. with 290k score. Last week i made 32,768 and ruined it again with score 629k

[@v01dy64]

@@gonplays5478 dude your a god,like a rarely even get a 4096 tile

[@FizzyFlaskGaming]

Nice tutorial! :)

[@mdiaz9816]

Thank you 😊 Your Awesome 👌

[@kristianberget6511]

My high score is 57048. I actually got an 8192 that round :D. After I discovered this strategy (myself..) I got addicted :p it's so fun to know how other people did the exact same thing! Great vid!

[@cans8451]

OK - underholdning its impossible to get 8192 with your score you need something like 80k

[@nedwelch1192]

Bull that score is way to low for a 8192

[@maximizeyourgame3553]

can someone download this video and put a counter for how many times he says consolidate?

[@thomasw1057]

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[@connorcallahan6457]

Great video!

[@kmtt3268]

Thank u it really works

[@coffeebutch]

that actually helps a lot thanks

[@GamerVsGenius]

Excellent! Thrilled to hear it. Thank you.

[@wolverine9632]

Thanks for the video. I just solved 2048 on my 3rd try!

[@k4ztf2]

this game must come back

[@frankiesomerville6052]

As watched this I was like "hey I'm subscribed to a guy who makes piano tutorials and sounds just like this." And now I know it is you, Joe! Haha, funny how things like this happen.

[@joeraciti]

Ha. Awesome.

[@shadowgodgames7253]

Nice strategy.

[@TheFabLadySings]

Thank you! I finally won!! 😀

[@haelotny6523]

Thank you. This was a very friendly and helpful tutorial. Edit: My high score increased by 28000 points in just an hour 🤯

[@furyberserk]

Beat this when it was a game of symbols and no explanation. I guess those 3 times I won, my strats were on point. Take into account it took me several upon several hours aka 2 days of this game to beat it.

[@alfredalfred4223]

Does this strategy works for non-standard game fields? for example "X2 2048" game. They have more than 30 non-standard game boards

[@isss5167]

Thanks!this is my first day playing and my highest score is 66k and i got 4096 tile once😁

[@LucisFerre1]

"I'm saying down but it's really up". What the holy fuck, dude?

[@kgratia4748]

YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿👿👿

[@LukeSumIpsePatremTe]

Another strategy is to use ONLY three directions. I never swap left. And I have to make sure I won't ever have to do that. It works pretty well too.

[@chazpao104]

THANK YOU

[@trevorlambertson7546]

Without cheap undo my best is 8192 and 111344 points. I don't really use this strategy. I create a row in which they decrease from the top right corner to the left and then it loops around to include the second row. The problem is that I sometimes get a flat grid.

[@danielhumphreys4429]

my best is pretty much exactly your's. like 300 more

[@yumingsu7557]

same its very annoying cuz thinking each time if it will create a flat grid takes too much time

[@AlicjaPetrovna]

I think I need this.

[@princesslantaya2012]

For 8x8 gird in 2048, you repeat these moves over and over: right, up, down, right. Then repeat over and over, it's not effective but it works

[@jonathanfontanilla9146]

Can you teach me how to do it

[@davebryan1890]

@@jonathanfontanilla9146 what?

[@harithamin8033]

Up-left I use down-left

[@wz7n1]

The middle finger is longer than the index finger though, so having your middle finger on the up key works just as well.

[@balokrumput9074]

I use middle

[@chrisff1989]

Are you Daniel Tosh?

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

How do I prevent a 2 from getting locked in the home row right next to the highest block?

[@Counttieballs]

I’m going to do this

[@mohameddada7683]

Now we're playing 2048 for the first thing that will think about you, and if you're sort of stuck, then go right. For actually the highest value demonstration by collapsing everything but this option is too sensible as possible when it is pointless by low value numbers. That's a stupid idea for the locational by a button mashing by getting very close to 2048, consildating obviously will pretend it to do. It guarded lock so got fours and this is a couple of thing for four is locked too. There changed corners not to know but it makes sense. And it blocks by a format. Appearing the temptation by its format by through that you can try its game by remaining by consolidations to do is an example. Two at a same time. By messing the board, it consildates more insufficient by an innovations. And get more scores.

[@nedwelch1192]

Wow this worked at the start but I made a new strat and my high score is over 75,000! So thank you.

[@david203]

In my experience, restricting to up and left, only allowing right when left is impossible (which is advocated in other videos), is not a winning strategy. [Note: just an example--all corners are symmetric.] Note that his strategy is much more complex than this, and looks much better.

[@testingtesting4458]

I just paused after I heard about restricting to up-left and got my 8444 high score.

[@lagif]

2020 still play this game

[@lecuber9221]

Helpful thx

[@pricejs87]

Upper LEFT? You monster!

[@veydsahvoz3870]

nice stragety what i do is button smash rught up and down avoid left

[@kushaljunghare3575]

That's really easy man just a focus and this algorithm I went 8192

[@hansen1238]

nice strat man

[@GamerVsGenius]

Thank you.

[@herbiiesupeda4980]

You can actually discover those moves. Actually i've been playing this game from time to time and as i watch this video i usually applied those moves and it is actually predictable.

[@nickstanton9885]

I’m having an aneurism just trying to listen to this

[@v1asec]

Well, my hi-score is 57,296. My strategy is similar, but I suppose it's slightly better. The first row is basically same as yours, but when I lock it, I make the second one in the opposite direction. This way you can consolidate it even better. I watched it just to see if it's similar as my strategy or even the same, and maybe to see something that could improve my strategy (well, that didn't happen in the end, as I already know all you shown here). But anyway, it's a nice guide and I guess most of people watching this can actually learn a lot of new skills from you.

[@crazy4whoo]

Do you mean having two corners with high tiles?

[@yumingsu7557]

ye the snake strategy

[@TheSpacecraftX]

Nope. randomness got me there eventually/

[@paintingjo6842]

«I say down but it's up...»

[@Juwlz]

My high score is in the 160,000 but the game I'm playing now I have a decision to make...if I do the dreaded down move I'll be able to pair up my two 4096 but I'll probably screw up the board by adding blocks between the format I've got going on.

[@chandlerplays1685]

You don't have to worry about the 2nd row, numbers will pop up there to match it anyways

[@kgratia4748]

Nuevaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.........................................

[@thoseoneguy9554]

I personally play bottom left but yeah it’s the strategy that I use and I win 10% of the games

[@tumbleweed8293]

I like to keep my biggest number in the bottom corner and if you do that don’t do up moves they will mess you up unless you are very desperate

[@jah7611]

What I do is I spawn them a lot in 12x12 then I switch it in all four corners.

[@Valentinav8]

It really helped me!! Thanks!!

[@XQCentral]

You are a fucking legend

[@AirAfter]

Do it in the bottom right corner. I got to the 4 tile and I going for the 8

[@dailydols]

if you got used to programming and bit-operations, this will all be more easy to unterstand.

[@Wil-sk2yi]

Button mash right, down, left, up

[@coldpotato17]

I actually was doing this before I watched this

[@LevKozlodoev]

Your top score was 52044 at the time of the video?

[@simonscholubbers225]

I play without Taktik just play without Put the biggest Number in a corner and My highscore is about 124000

[@Krishna-vd5xh]

Wow... 5500 without thinking... total approx 15,000!!!

[@biblibong3]

You sould like greg from steven universe

[@doomcannon4653]

I tried this strategy and I successfully merged 512 of my first time Disadvantage discovered: If you use this strategy sometime the tile may stuck: Neither of the two arrows may work Example: If 256 is on the top-right then click *_right_* or *_up_* can't merge/move tiles then you can only move left or downward then your biggest tile may stuck at the middle

[@calligraphy4244]

D; my friends didn't get jealous, I accidently told them that you had the secret of reaching this height, they got higher than me ;(

[@Dra3oon]

“I once scored a 4096” no wonder the strat doesn’t work for late game. Off to the pros, thank you very much.

[@sofie7882]

can we take a sec to look at his best score

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

I can’t do random button mashing into the same corner, but swiping into the same corner isn’t hard.

[@coded8527]

I just spammed up right down left and got a score of 3,036.

[@bringerod5141]

lol i came up with this on my own

[@shojintam4206]

Use only 2 arrows Home row Multiple consolidation Dont collapse 2 4 too early

[@Kinjutsuu]

it's not always possible to continue in the same corner. I reached 16k tile without stupid cheats funny thing I started on buttom, then had to move to the left side, and finally ended on top :P

[@suhaneegupta814]

I though this is some actual strategy. I discovered this AGES ago!!

[@eliashardy9528]

Felt like a genius figuring this out on my own two days after I downloaded it. 125K is my current highscore after two weeks Update: Well after about four months of playing my highscore is at 1,3 million but now at 5 months of playing I'll have to say its not easy to break that record.

[@eliashardy9528]

@@arnavverma1299 Nice. Look up my update I got something to flex haha

[@eliashardy9528]

@@arnavverma1299 These algorithms are a different game for me. The numbers don't mean the same.

[@eliashardy9528]

@@arnavverma1299 I'm German

[@eliashardy9528]

@@arnavverma1299 125k

[@gonplays5478]

I also figured this strategy out on my own in 2 days It's been 3 days since i started playing this game and my high score is 150k

[@tomcat1273]

I got the 4096 tile at midnight and got with a score of 60,000+ is that good?

[@Aaman27]

Tomcat No. At least 7digit number is good.

[@Aaman27]

Not 5, not 6.... SEVEN! YES. in Millions.

[@artman1166]

All my friends play this in school for some reason