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No, it is Photoshop!

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Oh, ye of little faith! Well, actually that one was GIMPed out of two screenshots...

I have videoed myself playing (and winning...) this while explaining my method. So if you want those spoilers, you can watch this here (warning: 441 MB uncut footage, watch on broadband). I got pretty close to getting it to 4096 there. By the way, I get confused in the end and talk about not getting 2048 (which you can see right on the screen). Rather it is the 4096 I didn't quite manage to get to. It was my first attempt at screencasting and I was getting worn out a bit at that point in time. I didn't feel like re-doing it. There also some bad moves in this, in particular at one point I say I have no choice but moving up when clearly moving left is much better. But anyway, if you are trying to beat the puzzle this should get you there.

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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
I have Lumosity brain training on my iPad which I try to do each day and which I find I get better at the more I do it.

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• To get three you need to get a 1 over a 2 and that means you cannot get a 1 over a 1 or a 2 over a 2. In other words, the bottom level is more difficult.
• if you get the row 4444 in 2048 it goes to 88 in 3s the row 3,3,3,3, goes to 3,3,6,6
• Added that in 2048 you slide right across the board while in 3s you move all the tiles one square at a time.

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And when things don't go so well, it's incredibly easy to dive in for "just one more game" (the catchy background music and peppy sounds and animations from the personified tiles themselves don't hurt, either).

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
...noticed that with 2048-- that little "bling!" noise is so satisfying!

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*leaves Ship to play 2048 with the sound on this time*

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(after an hour or so hours wrestling with IPad) Threes makes 2048 look like tic tac toe.

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Originally posted by IngoB:
Another thing that Threes is lacking, which 2048 has (as indicated by the name), is a clear goal in the game, or at least a convenient way of comparing achievements (like say an online "league table"). I really have no clue how well I'm playing. I think I'm doing OK, but other than by googling what other people say about their scores it ends up being just me eking out a somewhat better score again and again.

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Originally posted by Amorya:
On the iPhone it uses Game Center to compare you to your friends. (Not sure what it does on Android.)

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Originally posted by IngoB:
Thanks, I've never really used Game Center before. My High Score is apparently 91,537 overall and my High Card is 262,794 overall. That's pretty sucky then. Though I bet that the distributions are heavily skewed, i.e., one can probably move up a lot with a little more...

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Originally posted by Ariel:

Does anyone have any other enjoyable logic puzzles, brain-teasers, etc they'd recommend? Some fun suggestions on this thread so far.

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Originally posted by balaam:
I have been using a free Mahjong App on my Android phone during the morning and evening commutes. Nearly done them all at least once, need to look for something different. Any suggestions?

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That site tells me, "You have no devices" LOL. Similar to the Facebook message, "You have no friends"

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Originally posted by ken:
Been relaxing by making some lego technic kits.

For me that counts as mental stretching. I'm good with words and software and maybe even some kinds of music. But making things? Machines with moving parts? Not something my brain is very fitted to. So playing with toys with gears is maybe like someone else doing a crossword or sudoku.

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In my mind, the crosswords and sudoku are just conveniently portable replacements for the left-brain work you get with Lego.


In my line of work, I gt to play with Lego a lot but I have never played with the tech kits yet. Now I am desperately yearning to do so.
I was thinking it over the other day, and realised I spent a lot of time in the block area when I was a kid. Not that I didn't play with dolls and stuff, i would just consistantly drag the dolls and stuff to the block area. I liked making domino mazes and playing with tangrams, too.

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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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