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I found this particular article's language a bit hard to understand. "Firstly, one can be told, for particular squares in the grid, whether each square contains a submarine, a longer ship (and whether it is the north, south, east, west, or middle of a ship), or water (meaning no ship)" as an example. The sentence is a bit run on, and could be divided into multiple sentences to increase understanding of what it is trying to say. There were a few other areas like this.
I also find that it would be nice if the rules were described a bit more clearly, and some sort of diagram might be useful.
There is also a computer program of this called "Fathom It!" for Windows that is not mentioned in the article. It might also be nice to include some links to puzzle sites. However, I do not know enough about Wikipedia and if such a thing would be entirely allowed.
Just my opinion. Augwich ( talk) 17:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Augwich
Am I correct in thinking that battleship puzzles are a subset of nonograms -- i.e., all battleship puzzles are valid nonogram puzzles, but not vice versa? - furrykef ( Talk at me) 14:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Chaotic iak ( talk) 16:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
It's not clear to me how this puzzle differs from a standard Battleships game (other than being for one player). Perhaps adding an example game will help. cmɢʟee⎆ τaʟκ 12:42, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Although the article cites Argentina in 1982, I am convinced I first encountered Battleships much earlier and in London.
I firmly believe a daily Battleship puzzle was published in the Evening News / Evening Standard during the early- to mid-1970s. These two newspapers (the Evening News was taken over by its rival the Evening Standard) were/are evening edition papers in London, England.
I can't provide supporting evidence for this timing, except to say that I remember struggling with the puzzle in my early teens before I went to University. At that time I was missing key aspects of the logical process to solve the puzzle but was fascinated by it - which is why I remember so clearly. My father bought the paper every day. That places it in time and location. Duncanpt ( talk) 19:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)