Suika Game is about binary counting

A video about Suika Game, Threes!, 2048, binary counting and scoring systems (and definitely nothing else).

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Articles referenced in the video
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The Verge article revisiting Threes! and 2048:
Articles on Suika Game and Merge Big Watermelons:
Articles on Threes!:
Articles on 2048:
Open letter from Threes! developers addressing clones:

The music used in this video is the music from Suika Game (developed by Aladdin X) and Threes! (music composed by Big Giant Circles)

[drworm]

So it seems you can compare apples and oranges after all. This is useful information.

[Antsyi]

2048 being compared to tinder made me lol

[xiaq]

The “synthesized big watermelon” translation given by Google Translate is not wrong. 合成 means both synthesize and synthesized, and without the context it’s impossible to tell; in this case the correct translation would be “synthesizing big watermelons”. Rendering 合成 as “merge” is fine but not a literal translation; the word 合成 is a chemical term not in everyday use, so “synthesize” is appropriate.

[officiallyaninja]

You should make more video essays, this was a lot of fun!

[somedude]

Your channel feels like one that should be big and old, if that makes sense? Like this is the quality I'd expect from an experienced, popular person not a new guy with 10 videos.

[itsphoenixingtime]

Came here to learn about math and now have extensive knowledge of tile matching game drama lore

[PthariensFlame]

This game is about some *extremely* deep mathematics: epidemiology and dynamical systems. Just because you didn’t throw PDEs on the screen doesn’t mean they weren’t there in the background.

[thefullestcircle]

I remember, several years before Suika Game was a thing, I played a game with the same general concept...that was called "Couch 2048" and used the 2048 numbers on the circles instead of fruits. (It wasn't exactly the same; the walls were much shallower, which changed the gameplay significantly, but it still makes the whole situation much more complicated...)

[jamiemoseley]

Always good to see Threes getting some love online

[Ms.Cookie]

The ads on 2048 might just be there to offset the cost of hosting a website

[tsurugizaki]

Oh man, I remember playing a lot of mindless 2048 back in the day. I discovered the corner strat pretty early on. It does inevitably get tricky with the very large numbers... although I guess it's heavily luck-based by that point.
I think a lot of people just didn't play the game long enough or get invested enough to find out about the corner strat. It was easy to pick up and seemed difficult to master, and that was enough.

[Pizzacheese]

10:36 Woah, I've never realised that. You just opened my third eye

[notwithouttext]

one benefit of 2048 is that it's simple enough that it's easy to create variants. like there's ones with fibonacci numbers, you making the tiles to make the ai lose, tetris 2048, hexagonal 2048, four-dimensional 2048, and 2048 where merged tiles create holes.

source: some years ago i played too many 2048 variants

[mrphlip]

Glad to see Threes getting its due here... seen too many descriptions of Suika Game that trace the idea back to 2048 and don't go any further...

[liamleslie]

im going through ur back catalog and holy shit this video is amazing. please keep making more like this one too

[jsalsman]

I love these kinds of games but they put me to sleep like some kind of digital tranquilizer. It's scary, like electronically induced narcolepsy.

[Troonald]

as someone who speaks chinese, it made me happy to see your proficiency in chinese! Your pronunciation was quite good, and you corrected google translate and wikipedia very well!

[kori]

11:47 your Chinese pronunciation is spot-on, vrry good job

[dijawez]

yo this was a very cool combination of game analysis and math! you should do more stuff like this because it is neat.

[CuriousNeon]

Didn't expect this game to be covered here lol. Also, TIL threes and I'm one of those that got addicted to 2048 and the clones.