You don't need a math degree to play this hit mobile game. March 24, 2014— -- “Flappy Bird” may be on the rebound, but a new time-suck of a game has made it to smartphones. “2048” is ...

Like Bejeweled, Candy Crush, and countless puzzle games before it, 2048 has eaten up hours, days, weeks of our lives. It's not just about sliding numbered blocks into simple sums.

As for Lou, Flappy Bird 2048 was an exercise to show how it easy it is to re-iterate on the Web. That’s something that is important to him. He thinks that game developers should embrace the Web ...

Oddly enough though 2048 is itself a clone of a clone. The tiles-in-a-grid mechanism seems to have originated with paid iPhone game Threes, which has a slower pace of play but adds charming ...