Oct 1, 2012

Battleship

This is normally a board game, but it is easy to make with paper and pens or by printing out a copy. It is essentially a guessing game, but it can be used to work on numbers and/or the names of letters.

Required Materials

  • 2 copies of a 10x10 grid. The axes can be marked with numbers 1-10, or one can be 1-10 with the other using letters, or the X axis could be 1-10 and the Y axis 11-20. See the example here. The Arabic example below uses 1-10 on the X axis, and 10, 20, 30, etc. on the Y axis, so a grid point is a single number - the grid point below '5' and across from '40' would be given as '45.' Students can thus practice numbers 11-99.
  • Play pieces, or the size of the different "ships" can be marked directly on the grid as follows:
    • Aircraft carrier: 5 grid spaces
    • Battleship: 4 grid spaces
    • Submarine: 3 grid spaces
    • Cruiser: 3 grid spaces
    • Destroyer: 2 grid spaces

Instructions

  1. Class is divided into groups of 2.
  2. Each player randomly places their ships on the grid, hidden from the eyes of the other player.
  3. Each player takes turns calling out the name of a grid point. If their opponent has a ship at that location, they say, "hit", otherwise they say "miss." One variant of the game allows each player to make as many "shots" as they have remaining ships.
  4. If the other player has struck all the points of  ship, it is dead. The game continues until one player kills all their opponent's ships. 

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