Even super-villains play Threes, according to this panel from the newest issue of the ever-excellent comic Superior Foes of Spider-Man. But if the bad guys play that game, then what kind of unscrupulous character plays 2048?

Maybe you've heard of 2048? The folks at Grantland have, including the popular smartphone game in a new list of media recommendations while almost entirely glossing over the fact that 2048 is a derivation of a clone of the well-liked game Threes. Well, Threes does get to be an oblique punchline at the end of the…