The trick is to only go in three directions. I never once went down on the run I submitted, and you can see I could have continued the game for a lot longer if the game didn't end once I got the tile. What ends up happening is you have your bigger tiles together, and you can manipulate the smaller ones in the bottom rows then slide them up when they are ready. Then all you need is a little luck. :p
Bobs secret? Develop an addiction to 2048 when this thread was brought up and never stop playing.
Congrats to all the winners! Though I think we can agree that the people who spent a prolonged period on this game are all losers...
Looking forward to the next high score challenge. Hopefully the next one won't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork.
I tend to work towards the lower right corner, stacking high numbers on the right side. Looked around the web for something that best covered my strategy and I suppose this will do to start...
http://www.pictures-of-nepal.com/2048-game-hack-cheat/ - only I work to the right, rather than the bottom, as mentioned earlier.
...and if things go bad for any reason, I work in two directions (top and bottom). Perhaps I'll YouTube it or something someday, it basically involves lacking any sense of panic and instead selectively working the FF1's up and down along the left depending on what will favour me most. This leads to almost every move getting 1-2 merges and helps clear up the board in quick time. I've had a full board before and still managed to get it all the way down to about 3-4 tiles using this method. It doesn't always work, of course, but it's the best "disaster recovery" strategy I've stumbled across.
Yeah, I didn't really look up any methods but that's pretty much what I did. Keep it all on the bottom row - and then bottom two rows once you start building up a head of steam - unless it all starts going to Hell.
First thing I did when I booted up this morning was try Qwertysaur's strategy & nearly doubled my highest score. Basically, my biggest mistake before was not keeping things to one side. I would for quite a while, then I'd shift it in the other direction. Now I know that's where I was screwing up. Thanks guys.
The theory behind 2048: EoFF Stylin'