https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Kninnug 2026-05-19T09:30:40Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1344:_Digits&diff=62979 2014-03-19T11:28:24Z

<p>Kninnug: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1344<br /> | date = March 19, 2014<br /> | title = Digits<br /> | image = digits.png<br /> | titletext = It's taken me 20 years to get over skyline tetris.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> [http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ 2048] is a popular browser-based game in which players must move tiles in a 4 by 4 grid with numbers on them. When two tiles of the same number touch they can be merged into one tile with a value of the two tiles combined. So when two 4-tiles touch and are merged they form one 8-tile. The player can move the tiles by pressing an arrow key (or swiping in a direction on the mobile version), which will move all the tiles in that direction. Everytime the player makes such a move another tile will appear on a random cell. The goal of the game is to get a tile with the number 2048. <br /> <br /> In the comic the room number can be seen as 4 tiles with the values 8, 2, 2 and 4. If these occur in the game the player can merge the two 2-tiles into one 4-tile. This will then cause two 4-tiles to lie next to eachother so these can be merged into one 8-tile. Finally the two 8-tiles can be merged into one 16-tile.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

Kninnug https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1344:_Digits&diff=62978 2014-03-19T11:23:35Z

<p>Kninnug: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1344<br /> | date = March 19, 2014<br /> | title = Digits<br /> | image = digits.png<br /> | titletext = It's taken me 20 years to get over skyline tetris.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> [http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ 2048] is a popular browser-based game in which players must move tiles with numbers on them. When two tiles of the same number touch they will merge into one tile with a value of the two tiles combined. So when two 4-tiles touch and are merged they form one 8-tile. The goal of the game is to get a tile with the number 2048. <br /> <br /> In the comic the room number can be seen as 4 tiles with the values 8, 2, 2 and 4. If these occur in the game the player can merge the two 2-tiles into one 4-tile. This will then cause two 4-tiles to lie next to eachother so these can be merged into one 8-tile. Finally the two 8-tiles can be merged into one 16-tile.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

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