Battle Ships
How to play:
Give
each player a pen and two battleship grids. Players will use one grid for their
own fleet and the other grid to guess the location of their opponent’s fleet.
Each
player should decide where to hide his or her fleet within their grid. A fleet
is made up of one Battleship, two Cruisers, three Destroyers and four
Submarines. Each ship covers a different number of boxes in the grid and can
only appear vertically or horizontally on the grid (not diagonally).
To
place a ship on your grid, check how many boxes are covered by the ship (this is
shown at the bottom of the grid) and then write the first letter of the name of
the ship in the boxes it covers. For example, a Cruiser covers three boxes so
you would pick any three adjacent boxes and put the letter C in each box. When
each player has marked their fleet on their grid, it’s time to play.
Players
take turns to “shoot” at their opponents’ fleet by calling out the number
of a certain box (e.g. “A1” or “H4” or whatever they happen to choose).
The opponent must say whether the shot has missed or hit and if so, what it has
hit (“you’ve hit a submarine” for example. If a player misses, it’s the
end of their turn. If a player hits then they are allowed to “shoot” at
another box. Players can use their spare grid to mark down the boxes that they
have shot at and to see what they have hit.
Play
continues until one player wins by successfully hitting the whole of the opposing
fleet.
Created By - Michael Burgess
Last updated - 18th May 2006