About
2048 is a sliding-tile puzzle game created by Gabriele Cirulli and released in March 2014 as free, MIT-licensed software, in which numbered tiles are combined toward the goal of reaching a tile numbered 2048. The Bitwise Challenge: 2048 is a terminal-based implementation of 2048 that runs directly in a Linux console.
How it differs from the original
Game state can be shared with other players simply by exchanging a single number: setting the $STATE environment variable makes the board and all future tile spawns fully deterministic, a sharing mechanic not present in the original browser game.
Getting started
It is run directly from a terminal; setting the $STATE environment variable before launching loads a specific, reproducible board state (useful for sharing with others), and leaving it unset starts a fresh random game.