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Dear Threes!

You may have been overshadowed by your simpler (and in my opinion, uglier) younger sister 2048, but in my eyes you're the real catch!

You're dripping with charm from head to toe. Every part of you has been crafted with love and care. Your soundtrack is so playful and catchy, I find myself humming it randomly throughout the day. Oh and your characters! Each of your little number tiles has a name, design and voiceline! It's absolutely endearing.

The best part about you is there's so much depth to go with your charm. You're deceptively deep with your easy to learn but hard to master gameplay. What starts out as smooshing two tiles together grows into planning 3 moves ahead and creating a priority queue so you don't trap a low point tile in the middle of the board. I've been playing you off and on for half a decade and I still havent beat you!

We've drifted away from time to time but I'm so glad I've found you again. I'm coming for that 3072 tile and sooner or later I will beat you.

With love, Bijuice

P.S pls tell your creator to enable the paid version of the app in Kenya. I'm sick of watching ads.

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[–] bijuice@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to this discussion, what do you all think of the controversy surrounding 2048 and Threes? I think 2048 is different enough to not be considered a copy; it has nowhere near the depth or the polish of Threes! I just think art is iterative. We should have the freedom to take ideas from other works of art and build something new.

[–] macgyver@federation.red 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2048 is only more popular due to being free and “easier”

My advice on your little issue is sideload the app from appdb.to

[–] bijuice@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you on the first point. I just don't think the creators of Threes! had a valid reason in trying to get 2048 taken down from the app store.

Do you have an Android alternative to appdb?

[–] macgyver@federation.red 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-sideload-install-android-app-apk/

Android should be a little more difficult but it’s more permanent