Board facts
- Board
- 5 × 5
- Goal tile
- 2,048
- Undos
- unlimited
- Chance of a new 4
- 5 %
- 4s among the next 24 tiles
- 3
- Opening tiles
- 2 + 2
Score to beat: 31,836
Board #9 starts the 5 × 5 grid with a 2 on an edge and a 2 on an edge. Build towards 2,048; this difficulty gives you unlimited undos.
New tiles on Easy are a 4 with a chance of 5 %, otherwise a 2. With this board's seed 3 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 11th 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 still reached the goal tile after 1,251 moves and finished with 31,836 points.
How to approach it
The opening tiles sit on edges. Push them into the nearest shared corner in the first two moves and keep it as your home.