Battleship Board Game

Battleship Board Game is a guessing game played by two people. Battleship board game was originally a pencil and paper game and was invented by Aifford Van Wickler. In 1943, Milton Bradley Company published the pad and pencil game, "Broadsides, The Game Of Naval Strategy". The pencil and paper grids were changed to plastic grids with holes that could hold plastic pegs used to record the guesses.

The game has four grids, two for each player.  On one grid, player arranges ships and records the shots by the opponent.  And on the other grid, the player records their own shot.  Before the game starts, each player arranges a number of ships secretly on the grid for that player.  Ships occupies consecutive square on the grid vertically or horizontally.  The number of squares the ship occupies depends on the type of ship.  According to Milton Bradley version of the rules, aircraft carrier occupies 5 squares, battleship 4, destroyer, cruiser and submarine 3 and patrol boat 2 squares.

Once the ships are positioned, the game continues.  In each round, a player announces a target square in the opponent's grid which is to be shot at.  If a ship occupies that square, it takes a hit.  The opponent tells whether his ships have taken a hit or not and then takes a turn.  The game ends when all of other player's ships have sunk and the other player is declared winner.  There exists many variations of this game and it can also be played online.

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