Watch “The Unlikely History of Battleship,” a board game video for Battleship from Old Crappy Couch on BoardGameVideo.
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Battleship is one of the most beloved board games of all time, but did you know some believe the game’s inventor may not have been a real person? And the most referenced historian to make that claim themselves almost disappeared from the internet entirely? From murky origins to alien invasions, this is the unlikely history of Battleship!
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0:00 Cliffort Von Wickler
0:30 Theodor Lauppert
2:40 Ryurik Ivnev
3:41 Salvo by Starex
4:13 Ronald Brehio
4:50 1967 Milton Bradley releases Battleship
5:34 The Electronic Evolution of Battleship
7:22 1984 The First Hasbro Battleship
9:47 Popularity Wanes
10:06 2012 Battleship Movie
10:59 2022 The Current Battleship
12:32 2025 Hall of Fame Induction
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Some how-to-play. Battleship is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 6 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 16 other videos.
2 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Battleship, from BoardGameGeek:
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. The pencil and paper grids were changed to plastic grids with holes that could hold plastic pegs used to record the guesses.
Each player deploys his ships (of lengths varying from 2 to 5 squares) secretly on a square grid. Then each player shoots at the other's grid by calling a location. The defender responds by "Hit!" or "Miss!". You try to deduce where the enemy ships are and sink them. First to do so wins.
The Salvo variant listed in the rules allows each player to call out from 1 to 5 shots at a time depending on the amount of ships the player has left (IE: players each start off with 5 ships, so they start off with 5 shots. As ships are sunk, the players gets fewer shots). This version of the game is closer to the original pencil-and-paper public domain game. Many versions of the pencil-and-paper game have different amounts of shots based on the ship (IE: Battleship: 5 shots. Destroyer: 3 Shots, Etc.).
