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The game is usually played on square or rectangular grids. The player to accomplish this first wins. BATTLESHIP plays by “discovery,” where each player hides their arrangement of vessels from the other and they each, by guessing, try to uncover their opponent’s setup (usually once a vessel is placed it may not be moved).
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One of the key elements in the design of BATTLESHIP games is the hiding of pieces. I imagine, there needs to be additional research to resolve when exactly BATTLESHIP was invented. If BASILINDA is in fact a forerunner to Battleship, this certainly presents a conflict with the 1917 to 1922 dates. Whitehill includes a promotion from Horsman which shows opponents sitting across from each other moving pieces with a partition between the two players hiding the pieces of one player from the other. Horsman, may be a forerunner of BATTLESHIP. It is reported that the game was invented by Russian soldiers somewhere between 19 and Whitehill ( Games: American Boxed Games and Their Makers, 1892 – 1992, With Values) suggests that BASILINDA, a game from 1890 by E. Even Milton Bradley’s first attempt at the game was a pen-and-paper game. Most early BATTLESHIP games were pen-and-paper games. Originally the game was called SALVO or SALVO: THE BATTLESHIP GAME. Battleship has become the “Kleenex” of a long line of games which go back to the early part of this century. Using an aggressive advertising campaign, among other things, Milton Bradley succeeded in being the only company to continuously produce a BATTLESHIP game for any period any period of time – and is still growing strong. “You sunk my battleship!” could be heard during Saturday morning commercials. Over thirty-five years ago, Milton Bradley released its new games for the year and among those games was BATTLESHIP. –by Jim Polczynski (published in 1997, this article was edited and republished in 2003 )