Owlet puzzle #32
Released Thursday, August 6, 2026 UTC
2048
the answer for puzzle #32
The five clues
- A four-digit prime power between 2000 and 4000.
- A four-digit power of two.
- Made famous by a 2014 mobile game where you merge tiles.
- The eleventh power of two.
- 2¹¹ — after 1024 doubles once more.
Backstory
2048 = 2¹¹. Gabriele Cirulli's 2014 puzzle game merging tiles up to 2048 taught millions to think in powers of two. It's also the standard key size in bits for RSA in modern practice, and the sequence position of 11 among Mersenne-adjacent powers.
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