Board facts
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Goal tile
- 8,192
- Undos
- 3
- Chance of a new 4
- 20 %
- 4s among the next 24 tiles
- 8
- Opening tiles
- 2 + 4
Score to beat: 25,972
Board #36 starts the 5 × 5 grid with a 2 in the middle and a 4 in the middle. Build towards 8,192; this difficulty gives you 3 undos.
New tiles on Hard are a 4 with a chance of 20 %, otherwise a 2. With this board's seed 8 of the next 24 new tiles are 4s, as long as two or more cells are free when they appear; the first of them is the 2nd new tile.
Test run
Our test player is deliberately simple: it presses down whenever it can, then left, then right, and up only when stuck. On this board it reached the 2,048 tile after 1,285 moves and finished with 25,972 points. Any corner plan beats that, so take it as the first mark to pass.
How to approach it
The opening tiles start away from the walls. Pick the corner closest to both and spend the first moves bringing them there.