How to play
- Place your fleet. Rotate and click to position your five ships, or press Auto-place, then Start battle.
- Fire at the enemy. Click cells on the enemy grid to fire. A hit lets you fire again; a miss ends your turn.
- Sink the fleet. Track hits to finish off ships and sink all five enemy vessels before the computer sinks yours.
About Battleship
Battleship is the classic naval guessing game. You command a fleet of five ships — a carrier, battleship, cruiser, submarine and destroyer — hidden on a 10x10 grid. Place them yourself by rotating and clicking, or hit Auto-place, then start the battle. You and the computer take turns firing at each other's grids: a hit keeps your turn going, a miss passes it over. The computer fires back with hunt-and-target logic — searching at random until it scores a hit, then closing in on the surrounding cells to finish the ship. Sink all five enemy ships before yours go down to win. Choose a difficulty to face a sharper opponent. No signup, no download, nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Place your five ships on your grid, then take turns with the computer firing at each other’s 10x10 grids. Call out cells to find and sink the enemy fleet; the first player to sink all of the opponent’s ships wins.
It uses hunt-and-target logic: it fires at untried cells until it lands a hit, then targets the cells around that hit, following the line of a ship to sink it before resuming the random hunt.
Yes. When you hit an enemy ship you fire again; your turn only passes to the computer when you miss. The same rule applies to the computer.
Yes — rotate between horizontal and vertical and click your grid to place each ship, or use Auto-place to drop the whole fleet randomly. Ships cannot touch, including diagonally.
Difficulty sets how smart the computer is. Easy fires almost at random, while Normal and Hard hunt efficiently and target neighbouring cells after a hit to finish ships faster.
Completely free, with no signup, no download and no paywall — it loads and runs entirely in your browser.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Battleship works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
No. Battleship works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Battleship starts working the moment you give it your input.
Your input is processed in memory and never stored, so nothing is left behind once you have your result.
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