Cool game.

```

const rotate = (direction) => { const directions = {counterclockwise: 0, clockwise: 1}; const buttons = Array.from(document.querySelector('.mt-16.flex.items-center.justify-between.w-72.h-12.px-2').querySelectorAll('div')).filter(el => el.className === ''); buttons[directions[direction]].click(); }

document.addEventListener('keydown', (ev) => { switch (ev.key) { case 'ArrowLeft': rotate('counterclockwise'); break; case 'ArrowRight': rotate('clockwise'); break; } });

```

Some proposals to improve usability:

The game should notice a stalemate and tell you that you lost (no matter how you rotate: no more progress is possible).

The game should accept a hit of 'Return' to start the new game (it currently seems to insist of mouse interaction).

The game should have a 'fast' mode with less animation so that I can play faster. A single move takes too long! I am impatient! :-)

I bet this was tried, but what's play like with the same game mechanics of this version, but with the original game play, where each move gives you a new block?

I’ve been obsessively playing another 2048 variant which was a recent Show HN[1], and has confounded me since. Yours has a much gentler learning curve and obviously isn’t designed to be unbeatable. Rotating the whole board will probably continue confounding me in entirely different ways.

1: https://www.adversarial2048.com/

Is each board guaranteed to be solvable?

For playing on mobile - it's be nice to be able to rotate by swiping vertically down the empty space on the left or on the right of the board.

Edit: now intermittent errors