The real battleship cheat was marking the opponents shots as well as your own and moving ships accordingly. I mean, it's not like real ships don't move.
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Don't you always mark the opponent's shots?
They didn't come with enough markers originally to do that. The only way i was able to as a kid was because we had the peices from a second game set.
bro, where i'm from, this game is played on two paper sheets from your math notebook
It’s always had way more miss markers than we ever needed. And it was in the mid 80s
I suppose strictly speaking you only need to mark the hits. If you're not cheating, your opponent's misses don't really matter much.
Look at this amateur, not even psychologically analysing his opponents during a board game. Probably doesn't even keep a secret record on his oppents either.
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Once you finally get a hit though...it's game over.
Battleyachts
I remember playing battleship with one of my cousins while at our grandma's for christmas and I kept winning because they never looked up and noticed the mirror on the ceiling. 😈
...why is there a mirror on the ceiling?
Were you playing on grandmas bed?
Their dining room had a mirrored ceiling. I think their house was from the 70s or some shit.
Was there any pink champagne on ice by any chance?
And a lot of pineapples in the decor?
Don’t worry I’ve got backups
The backups:
I put all my ships in one little cluster, I play people infrequently that they forget I do that. It’s a pretty good strategy
That has zero strategic advantage. it only hurts your odds of winning.
*Edit: Since this has gotten a fair amount of debate, let me end it for the couple of youl who think I'm incorrect.
When played normally, the odds of finding the 5 spot ship are much higher than finding the 2 spot ship (duh).
You have essentially made a single 5 spot ship by stacking.
When your opponent lands a hit, they are required to state what ship was struck. This means that once there's a hit made on those ships, you have to name off ALL the ships under the peg.
You transformed a game where you had to find a 5 peg ship, 4 peg, 3 peg, and a 2 peg ship into a game where all you have to do is find the easiest ship to locate (5 peg) and you win the game.
This is a no brainer.
Also, just for the record, it is against the rules to stack ships.
The grid is 10x10, so 100 spaces. Placed legally, your five ships take up 17 spaces. That means if your opponent picks a space at random, there is a 17% chance they will get a hit.
It you cheat like this, your five ships only take up 5 spaces. That means if your opponent picks a space at random, there is a 5% chance they will get a hit.
So, purely based on chance, this increases the odds of your opponent not beating you. You just have to make sure to also be on the offensive and sink all their battleships quickly, because if they happen to hit your battlestack just once, that means they are going to sink it all within the next 4-7 turns.
What you calculated are not the chances of the opponent not beating you, you calculated the chance of getting the first hit. But it is the last ship being hit that will make you lose.
Imagine player A using a regular strategy, and B using this stacking strategy. Now imagine that B gets insanely lucky and sinks all of A's ships except their largest one, without missing any at all (while A keeps missing all their shots). So now, even after all that insane luck from player B, who has a better chance of winning? At this point, they both have only 5 spaces which can be hit, and any hit will quickly end the game, so they both have 50% chance to win right?
This means that clearly if B doesn't get insanely lucky in the first turns of the game, then A will have much better chances to win. A's chance to win reduces to it's absolute minimum at 50% when it has only one single 5-length ship left.
If you had a ship on every possible space, they would have a 100% chance of landing a hit, so by your logic this would be worse. But it would take 100 turns to sink you, which is the best possible outcome.
Having only one 5 space ship is objectively worse than having one five space ship and all the others. Unless of course you also created a new rule that they have to hit the same spot multiple times, once for each ship.
At that point you’re just playing Calvin Ball, though, and you might as well put the ships under your chair and claim “You never said floor!”
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When the smallest ship (can't remember what its called) is destroyed, you would then tell your opponent that they sunk it. It would be unlikely that they would continue to strike the next space in that row/column.
According to the rules (which also state you can't stack ships. Lol) you're supposed to state which ship was hit.
This means that you would have to say the names of all the ships that just got hit. Also, if you were trying to skirt that rule by not saying the names of all the ships underneath, and only saying the name of the top ship, the odds that both if your opponents first guesses that struck would hit the 2 spot ship are pretty low.
According to the rules (which also state you can't stack ships. Lol) you're supposed to state which ship was hit.
TIL I’ve never played by the rules.
Haha. So just like Monopoly and Uno.
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Wasn't the same picture posted yesterday?
High risk, high reward.
I am not seeing it. In this community?
EDIT: Oh, it's a user I have blocked. No wonder I didn't see that before posting this.
The one from yesterday was slop. This one at least some effort behind it (not much - it's still a shitpost).
Better a low effort shitpost made by a human than zero effort algorithmic slop.
I'll pay top dollar for a stained, crumpled napkin doodle of the thing I'm interested in before I spend a cent on slop.
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