2048 Blog
Numbers behind the tiles and the story behind the game.
- Where 2048 Came From: Threes!, 1024 and a Weekend in 2014
The short story of 2048: the games that came before it, the weekend it was written, why it spread so fast and what open source meant for every copy.
- The Maths of 2048: Scores, Odds and How Many Moves It Takes
Why a 2048 tile is worth about 20,000 points, how often a 4 appears, roughly how many moves a win takes and what the biggest possible tile is.