Welcome to the new site!

[admin]

Welcome to our newest site: Battleship Puzzles!

As with any new site there are bound to be questions or unintended bugs/issues... if you notice anything not behaving the way it should, please post it here or email us at puzzlebaron@gmail.com.

Thanks as always!

Stephen

[turno77]

Can you explain the different prefilled squares?

[admin]

You bet! A prefilled cell can be either:

• Water (self-explanatory)
• A ship's bow or stern (i.e. an end-piece of a ship, meaning that ship must be at least 2 cells big). The "pointy end" of an end-piece must have water beside it.
• A ship's middle section (i.e. a square, which represents a middle section of a ship, which means that ship must be at least 3 cells big since 1-cell and 2-cell ships have no middle sections, and it can be aligned either horizontally or vertically, at least at first)
• A single-cell ship (i.e. a circle), which is a self-contained single-cell ship (referred to as a submarine) and which you can immediately surround with water.

[Sheepdogs]

Any chance you can set up the hints and checks to just show one error at a time? That way, you can try to work it out without getting hit with hundreds of penalty points. I tend to just start over. I do love Battleship though - played it “back in the day”!

[Sheepdogs]

Often if I ask for hints or a check, and I go back and get it fixed, it won’t submit the result - it’s just stuck and I have to exit the puzzle.

[admin]

Often if I ask for hints or a check, and I go back and get it fixed, it won’t submit the result - it’s just stuck and I have to exit the puzzle.

Hmm, strange - the next time you see this happen could you email me a screenshot of the finished puzzle that won't submit? I want to try to replicate this issue. Thanks!

[MattressGnome]

What's with the "Advanced analysis: cell E8 must be a ship segment." hint? That tells you nothing, and doesn't help teach how to solve the puzzles. There seems to be a lot of guesswork and fill-in until it fails patterning, which isn't really logic anymore

[admin]

What's with the "Advanced analysis: cell E8 must be a ship segment." hint? That tells you nothing, and doesn't help teach how to solve the puzzles. There seems to be a lot of guesswork and fill-in until it fails patterning, which isn't really logic anymore

It's a limitation of the hint server's ability to dynamically explain certain advanced deduction methods in human-readable English. I'll take another crack at this in the next update and see if I can make any improvements here.