256

Power of 2: 2⁸ · Reached: Mid-to-late game

The halfway checkpoint on the road to 2048.

256 marks roughly the halfway point of your journey to 2048. Your next task is creating two 256s and merging them into a 512.

At this stage, using a snake pattern to stretch your chain across two rows lets you hold onto more large values.

Next Goal: 512