Battleship is a two-player guessing game in which each player secretly arranges a fleet of ships on a grid and then takes turns calling out grid coordinates to try to hit the opponent's hidden ships, sinking a ship once every square it occupies has been hit. The game is descended from pencil-and-paper guessing games played at least as early as the First World War, and it was first published as a commercial pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s before Milton Bradley released the now-familiar plastic grid-and-peg board edition in 1967. It remains one of the best-known pure deduction and guessing games.
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Originating RegionContested and layered: the paper-and-pencil game dates to World War I with Russian officers among its early players, the United States for the first commercial edition (Salvo, 1931) and the modern plastic board game (Milton Bradley, 1967) 1 Game TypeBoard game, strategy guessing, pencil-and-paper origin 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; commercially owned by Hasbro, via Milton Bradley. 1 Sport
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Sources
1. Wikipedia, Battleship (game)
WikipediaLead section, first sentence
Battleship (also known as Battleships) is a strategy type guessing game for two players.
History section, first paragraph
The first commercial version of the game was Salvo, published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company.
Lead section, second paragraph
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.
entity record, description lead (player-count)
Battleship is a two-player guessing game in which each player secretly arranges a fleet of ships on a grid and then takes turns calling out grid coordinates to try to hit the opponent's hidden ships, sinking a ship once every square it occupies has been hit. The game is descended from pencil-and-paper guessing games played at least as early as the First World War, and it was first publis
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