page_title: Battleship (game)
hierarchical_section_title: Battleship (game)
context_page_description: Battleship is a strategy type guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids 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.
  Battleship is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was released as a plastic board game by Milton Bradley in 1967. The game has spawned electronic versions, video games, smart device apps and a film.
context_section_description: Battleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle) is a strategy type  guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each player's fleet of ships (including battleships) 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.
  Battleship is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was released as a plastic board game by Milton Bradley in 1967.  The game has spawned electronic versions, video games, smart device apps and a film.
caption: A map of one player's ships and the hits against them, from a game in progress. The grey boxes are the ships placed by the player, and the cross marks show the squares that their opponent has fired upon. The player would be tracking the success of their own shots in a separate grid.