Battleship

Players: 2

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Battleship is a strategy guessing game played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each player's fleet of ships are marked. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player. Players alternate turns calling "shots" at the other player's ships, and the objective of the game is to destroy the opposing player's fleet.

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Academic Ties To: Game Design

More Info: This game on Wikipedia

Fun Fact: Battleship was originally a pencil-and-paper public domain game known by different names, but Milton Bradley made it into the well known board game in 1967.