About 2248 Blast
Take the doubling arithmetic of a 2048-style game and detach it from the grid slide. Instead of pushing every tile at once, you draw a line through adjacent tiles carrying the same number and merge the whole chain into one larger value. Diagonals count, which widens the board considerably compared with games that only accept the four orthogonal directions.
There is no timer, and that changes the texture of it. The tension is purely spatial — every merge you take removes tiles and drops new ones in, so a greedy short chain now can bury the eights you were saving for a longer one. Reaching 2248 takes patience rather than speed.
How to play
Connect two or more touching tiles that show the same number by dragging through them. Release, and they collapse into a single tile of the next value up. Fresh tiles fall from the top to fill the gaps. Keep compounding upwards for as long as the board allows.
Controls
- Hold and drag through the tiles you want to chain, then let go to merge. The path highlights as you build it.
- Touch handles this naturally in portrait; a mouse drag does the same job on desktop.
Tips
- Always extend a chain to its full length before releasing. A five-tile merge and a two-tile merge produce the same number, but one clears far more board.
- Build your high values in a corner and merge inwards, so the largest tile is never stranded in the middle with nothing to pair with.
- Diagonal links are easy to forget. Scan for them before settling for a straight line.
