How to play
Tile Fuse is a merge puzzle on a glowing circuit board. Slide all the chips in one direction — up, down, left or right. When two chips with the same number collide, they fuse into one chip of double the value. After every move a new little chip drops onto the board.
- Desktop: arrow keys.
- Phone / tablet: swipe anywhere on the board.
- Goal: fuse your way from humble 2-chips to the legendary 2048 chip — then keep going for the high score.
- You lose when the board fills up and no two neighboring chips match.
Strategy corner
Random swiping gets you to 128. Getting to 2048 takes a plan:
- Pick a home corner. Keep your biggest chip parked in one corner and never move it. Most strong players commit to two directions (say, down and left) and use the other two only when forced.
- Build in ladders. Arrange chips in descending order snaking away from your corner — 512, 256, 128, 64 — so each new fuse cascades into the next.
- Don't chase every small fuse. A tempting 4+4 in the wrong column can shove your whole formation out of shape. Board shape beats quick points.
- Count before you're full. When only two or three cells remain open, slow down and check every direction's outcome before you commit.
Your best score is stored on your device only (see the privacy policy) — beat it, brag, repeat.
About this game
Tile Fuse spent weeks on our homepage as a blurred card called "Mystery Puzzle." Now the pieces are carved: it's the third cabinet in our arcade, alongside Sky Runner and Neon Breaker. The sliding-and-doubling family of puzzles is a classic of the genre — our take dresses it as a circuit board where chips fuse into bigger silicon, in the same handwritten vanilla-JavaScript style as everything else here: no engine, no framework, no ads chasing you around, nothing to install.
We're Webmaster & More, a small web studio in Los Angeles, and this arcade doubles as our portfolio. Curious how a merge puzzle works under the hood? The dev log has the build notes.