My phone screen is greasy now. Not from the game, I was eating chips, but the numbers are sliding around and suddenly there's this blonde looking at me like I did something wrong. Which I did. The math was bad. I kept merging 2s into 4s into 8s and she just stood there fully dressed while my brain melted. The real model thing threw me off because she looks like someone who'd ignore me at a bus stop but here she is waiting for me to hit 2048 or whatever.

The logic part is a lie. There's no logic to why watching pixels of a woman remove clothing based on my ability to add numbers is so... something. It's not sexy exactly. More like a weird power trip where I'm both the idiot failing basic arithmetic and the creep getting rewarded for it. The strip mechanic is slow. Painfully slow sometimes. I'd merge tiles and nothing happens and I'm thinking did I break it? Then a bra disappears and I forget what number I was building toward. Happened three times. The blonde has this look. Not judgmental. Just waiting.

Wish the numbers were smaller so I could see more of her without squinting. But that's not happening. The mobile format means my fat thumbs cover half the action and I'm tilting the phone like that'll help. It doesn't. The striptease part is more tease than strip honestly. By the time anything interesting happens I've already lost track of the 1024 tile I was nursing in the corner and the whole board is clogged with 2s. Restarted maybe six times. Not because I'm bad at 2048. Because I'm bad at 2048 while distracted. There's a difference.