Community spotlight: April’s high-score heroes
A run of 32,768 on 2048, a Snake survival record that lasted 41 minutes, and a Candy Match combo that made our analytics dashboard cry.
Every month we highlight runs that made the team stop what we were doing. Here are the three we talked about most in April.
32,768 on 2048 Classic. Only 0.07% of accounts have ever produced a 32k tile. Reese1 did it twice in a week. We asked them how. They said "lots of undo buttons". Respect.
A 41-minute Snake Rush run without a wall collision. On Hard mode. The board was full of snake by minute 30. We have the replay if you want to study the endgame — it’s linked on their public profile.
A 19x combo on Candy Match 3. For reference, the internal stretch goal we set the designers was "anything above 12x means the game is tuned well". Morgan41 laughed at us.
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