Whenever I want to just shut my brain off and mindlessly play a game, I have this game of 2048 on a 7x7 grid on my phone. I have been playing this same ongoing grid nearly every day, a few minutes at a time, for literally months. Because it is on a much larger grid than the standard 4x4, it takes nearly zero thought/effort and is difficult to actually lose (though definitely not impossible). Recently, I finally achieved a tile valued at 2,097,152. To be clear: you probably shouldn't be too impressed by this. It really takes no skill to do this, just a lot of time. I thought someone might find this mildly interesting or something.
Tall table listing the numerical values of successive tiles
| tile # | value |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 16 |
| 5 | 32 |
| 6 | 64 |
| 7 | 128 |
| 8 | 256 |
| 9 | 512 |
| 10 | 1024 |
| 11 | 2048 |
| 12 | 4096 |
| 13 | 8192 |
| 14 | 16384 |
| 15 | 32768 |
| 16 | 65536 |
| 17 | 131072 |
| 18 | 262144 |
| 19 | 524288 |
| 20 | 1048576 |
| 21 | 2097152 |
| 22 | 4194304 |
| 23 | 8388608 |
| 24 | 16777216 |
| 25 | 33554432 |
I switched from android to GrapheneOS because of battery life and non-easily-replaceable battery (the security is a bonus), and doing so exposed me to F-driod and the FOSS apps that brought back sanity from the enshittifcation of mobile apps, including cool little games like 2048. It's a nice little game. Congrats on the score. Recently, I found an emulator for the TI-89 calculator and was surprised that TI had a free to download ROM OS for it on their website. I wouldn't have found this stuff if I wasn't pushed out of corporate walled hellscapes, something, something silver lining and all that.
grapheneos is still android