By now you are probably on top of all the latest game trends: Flappy bird, Fun Run,Candy Crush, and Clash of Clans are just a few games that social media has been buzzing. But have you heard of 2048? Well, boy are you in for a surprise.

The game 2048 is your standard puzzle where you move pieces about the 4 by 4 board with the purpose of creating a single tile with the number 2048. You start off with two numbers, usually a two, sometimes a four, and you combine the matching numbers, doubling each time they touch. Sound easy? Here’s the catch. Every time you make a move, an empty space fills up with another two or four, giving you less room to move about. When all the tiles are filled and there are no more touching numbers, “it’s game over.”

Most people’s initial reaction is usually the same as yours. “Ew, math.” But it’s actually quite fun , at least at first. The exhilaration you feel when you only have a few moves left to make before you reach your goal quickly morphs into sheer, phone-throwing, cheat code Googling rage. Pure anger overtakes you as you question why you, a human being of great intellectual ability, can’t complete the most basic of mathematical problems?

When you first start playing you’ll just be swiping left and right, up and down without a care in the world and just enjoying the ride. But soon you’ll get caught up in the fact that whatever you are doing isn’t working. You’ll resort to your favorite search engine (Probably google, nobody uses Bing, sorry Microsoft) to find the best strategy or you’ll ask a friend to help you with the seemingly impossible. So take my advice, only swiping in three directions is the way to go. You’ll feel like a whole new person and keep trying and trying, until you suddenly realize you’re STILL probably not going to figure it out. Sorry about it, kid.

Don’t get me wrong, 2048 is the bomb.com. It’s great for passing time and quite exciting. Just try not to get caught up in the whole thing, otherwise you probably won’t be sleeping for a while. Enjoy it, embrace it, and rub it in people’s faces when you beat it (it’s okay to be a jerk sometimes), but please, for the love of God, DON’T let it overtake your life.