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One fresh board. No undo. Bank your score when ready; up to 8,000 recorded inputs.
Play this week’s setup. Your highest posted score counts. Only ranked runs appear here.
Sign in to play rankedSwipe, use the arrow keys or press a direction button to slide every tile. Two equal tiles meeting along that direction merge into one double-sized tile. A tile can merge only once in a move: four 2s become two 4s, rather than one 8.
Each move that changes the board adds a new 2 or 4. Merges add their resulting value to your score. Reach 2048 to win, then choose Keep playing if you want a bigger number. The run ends when no slide or merge is possible.
Keep a large tile in one corner and arrange smaller values beside it. Moving toward that corner helps preserve a useful order; a move away may strand your largest tile between newcomers.
Before taking an attractive merge, check where the next pair will meet. A few empty cells give you choices. Filling the board with mismatched values is a more common trap than simply failing to spot a big merge.
Gabriele Cirulli’s original 2048 project credits earlier number puzzles including 1024, Saming’s 2048 and Threes. This version keeps the familiar four-by-four sliding rules, with touch controls and an optional continuation after the first 2048 tile.