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2048 Board Analyzer

Enter the tiles you see. The coach simulates every legal direction, previews the board before a random tile appears, and explains the strongest next move.

Exact merge rulesFour-move comparisonRuns locallyOne-step lookahead
A coach, not an oracle

The next tile appears randomly, so the result is a transparent heuristic—not a guaranteed perfect move. Your tile values stay in this browser and are never included in analytics.

STEP 1 · ENTER BOARD

Your current 4×4 board

Use 0 for an empty cell. Valid tiles are powers of two from 2 to 131072.

Try a position
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Your next move starts here

Load a sample or enter your board, then compare every legal direction.

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TRANSPARENT SCORING

What the coach measures

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Empty cells

More space usually gives future tiles and merges room to move.

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Merge value

Immediate points and remaining adjacent pairs reward useful consolidation.

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Corner control

Keeping the largest tile in a corner supports a stable edge chain.

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Tile order

Smooth, monotonic rows and columns are easier to combine than scattered peaks.

For lookahead, the coach tries a 2 or 4 in every empty cell using the usual 90%/10% weighting, then evaluates the best legal reply. It does not search the full game tree.

Movement rules follow the original open-source 2048 implementation ↗. The evaluation heuristic is explained above and is independent of that project.