Q&A for How to Win at Battleship

Yes. Try spreading all your ships out, not just the smallest one.

Moving your ships during the game is against the rules, so no, this wouldn't be effective.

No, you cannot.

No. This is a game of chance. There are not strategies you can use to guarantee winning. It simply is based on guessing.

If one of your ships sinks, you get one truth or dare from the other person. Alternatively, hits are shots, and sunk ships are drinks.

You are allowed to do this, but as clever as it might seem at the time, it's easy for your opponent to figure out the pattern once they have a few hits.

If you know the length of the ships you're missing (how many spaces they take up), you can just use slips of paper as placeholders.

That is a very effective technique. Different strategies work best at different times, depending on the arrangement of your opponent's ships, but yours is very reliable.

It doesn't matter the order, since the goal is just to sink every ship.

There is no exact place that you need to place you ships.

There are only three locations for any ship: center, side or corner. In addition, there is much strategy involved in the ships' positions relative to each other. For example, you could group together all the small ships in the smallest field possible, leaving a vast open area for your carrier to 'hide'. In the end, there isn't really any one position for your carrier that is clearly better than any other. Feel free to come up with your own strategy and reasons why, then see if it works well towards winning the game.

Place your ships randomly, and both horizontally and vertically. The placement of where the ships are have nothing to do with winning. AIf you want to, place the smaller ships on the outskirts and the bigger in the middle.

You can't according to the rules of the game. The rules state that you can only name one space per turn, but you can talk with who you are playing with.

Yes, as if they are all in the same direction, a player can figure out what orientation the majority of ships are in, which leads them to sink your ships in a fewer amount of turns.

its a mind game; some people are under the thought that it is more common for people to put towards the sides so they naturally drift to the middle.

Sometimes yes and other times no. It depends on the person you are playing with. If you analyze their movements in past games, you may notice a pattern, therefore catching them.

Sometimes it is better to just destroy the ships you hit before moving on; in case they find all of yours and you still have not gotten all or one of theirs.

In the traditional battleship board game, you can make one shot per turn, there are not different weapons.

No, you do not need to announce the name of the sunken ship, as it reveals how large the ship was.

It depends. Technically, it shouldn't make a difference where you place your boats, but it makes a difference if you know your opponent. If they think you are a sneaky person, who would put a boat in the corner, then it would be a bad idea. In the same way, if they think you are sneaky and might put all of your boats near each other, then don't do that. So, it shouldn't make much of a difference, but it is a strategy.

The answer is that you don't! You have to guess a number and letter (for example, B,1) and hope to hit one of their ships. If you do, you can guess around that spot to hit the other parts of the ship.

It depends on which ship and whether you're placing it horizontally or vertically, but generally placing a ship or two near the border is a good idea, just don't put all of them there.

No. You must place it across or down. That is how you place your ships in the game.

The difference is that one is Russian and the other is not. Nothing else. That is all.

Click the battleship in the buttons and set the coordinates, then fire! Where you fire, it will hit that and everything around it .

If everyone does end up using this strategy, I would suggest confusing your opponent as much as you can so that they don't catch on to what you are doing instantly. Throwing a curveball, however, would be a great idea so that they don't know what you will do. Being unpredictable is a great advantage.

Trial and error. Try some on the edges. As soon as you hit, call out moves close to this other ship. It's a game of luck, though, so there is no guarantee this will work.