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Battleship rules: fleets, shots and solo practice

Place five ships, track hits and sink the computer’s fleet. Learn the chart controls, difficulty options and practice scoring in Tailorgame’s solo Battleship.

Original Battleship chart illustration, not a gameplay screenshot

All game rules

Place your fleet

Place five straight ships of lengths 5, 4, 3, 3 and 2 on your 10 × 10 chart. Ships cannot overlap or leave the chart, but they may touch. Drag a ship, or select it and choose a cell. With the keyboard, Enter picks up or drops, arrows move, R rotates and Escape puts it back.

Fire and follow the clues

You fire first, then alternate one shot per turn, even after a hit. Use a grid cell or the coordinate field. On touch, select a cell and confirm Fire, or tap it again. A hit reveals only that cell; sinking reveals that ship. Sink all five enemy ships to win. Resigning awards the win to the computer and submits no practice score.

Difficulty and practice results

Choose a computer difficulty before starting. The computer reasons from its shots and answers, not your hidden fleet. A win scores 1,000 plus speed, surviving-ship and difficulty bonuses; a loss scores 20 per hit and 50 per ship sunk. Game controls are in English. The last battle report stays in this visit; online human rooms are not implemented.

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