A strange little side quest
Put 2048 Merge Blocks next to the history of racing and a few unexpected connections appear. A top Formula 1 tyre stop can happen in under two seconds; McLaren set a 1.80-second pit-stop record. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Arthur Wynne published a diamond-shaped 'Word-Cross' in the New York World on December 21, 1913; the name later shifted to 'Cross-Word' and then 'crossword'. So a round of 2048 Merge Blocks is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer racing timeline.
