2048: Doctor Who Edition
Some days ago a link was spread across social networks that advertised a game called “2048: Doctor Who Edition” published on usvsth3m.com. The link was usually accompanied by a taunt “I reached the X*th Doctor! Can you beat me?” (*X being the number of a Doctor).
I believe I do not need to repeat myself about what Doctor Who is, let me just tell you this: My natural curiosity of course got the better of me and I tried it myself.
What is the games goal and how is it played?
The game gives you a four times four grid and two starting tiles with usually the lowest possible pattern.
The goal of this game – and it’s original versions, to which you can find links below the Doctor Who Edition – is to combine the tiles with similar patterns using your arrow keys to get up to the highest possible pattern.
In the DW case you combine the tiles with the pictures of each Doctor to reach the Eleventh, while in the normal 2048 you combine numbers to reach the eponymous number (don’t worry you follow the binary numbers starting with 2 and don’t go up from 1 to 2048).
But only the direct predecessor allows you to create a higher tile (Two First Doctors create a Second Doctor tile, two Second Doctors create a Third Doctor and so forth).
Are there any strategies involved?
As it is a kind of logic game there are of course many possible strategies.
I tried several things myself, like randomly moving the tiles around to make them fit, keeping everything on the left side or keeping everything on the right side.
But the one I used after repeatedly playing it for a couple of times was to...
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