Richard Hale
Puzzle Strategy Writer
Richard covers the math and probability side of 2048 for BrainTileGame — win-rate research, board theory, and separating what's actually provable from what's just folk wisdom passed around in comment sections. He has a background in computer science and a long-running interest in solved and near-solved games, from tic-tac-toe variants up through more complex combinatorial puzzles.
His approach is to go to primary sources — published research and computational proofs — rather than repeating commonly cited but unverified numbers.