Simply put the goal of 2048 is to get a tile to 2048. Game starts out with a 4x4 grid and two tiles placed randomly. The starting tiles have the number 2 on them and the goal is to combine them to eventually get to 2048. So you combine two 2s to make a 4, combine two 4s to make an 8, etc. The difficult parts comes in the tile movement and that after each move more tiles pop up. Movement in 2048 works in a way that whatever direction you send the tiles, every tile moves that way. This makes it kind of hard to plan too far ahead and just makes a general chaotic game.
