A few short videos on 2048: getting started if you have never played, pushing your score higher once you have, and what the far end of the game actually looks like.
A quick walkthrough of the basics for anyone opening the game for the first time — sliding, merging and the goal.
Once the basics are down, this one covers the strategy tips people actually reach for — corner control, keeping cells open, that kind of thing. The tested version of the same advice runs those tips as algorithms over thousands of simulated games rather than taking them on faith.
131072 is the theoretical ceiling — reaching it needs all sixteen cells holding tiles in exact descending order at the moment of the final merge. This run gets there. Why 131072 is the maximum explains the board-full math behind that number.
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