This 2048 game strategy can be broken down into a few key elements:

• Use only two directions (as much as possible)
• Never move your tiles up.
• Keep your tiles tidy.
• Focus on your goal.
• Aggressively combine downward and horizontally as needed.

• 1. Swipe left and right several times (optional). Start a new game, then swipe left and right rapidly. Continue until you have a couple rows of 2s, ...
• 2. Build a higher tile in a corner. Combine the early tiles into a 16 or 32, and put it in a corner. The goal of this method is to keep this tile in ...
• 3. Keep the row with the high tile filled. For instance, if your high-value corner is in the top right, fill the entire top row with tiles.
• 4. Focus on combining small tiles. For most of the game, it's much more important to make 8s, 16s, and 32s than it is to aim for a single larger ...