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Hint: Game has two modes; one mode lets you position ships where the corners touch, the other doesn’t let the corners touch. When you sink a ship, the system automatically excludes the surrounding squares as available targets. If the “corners can touch” mode is enabled, the corners are not cleared as targets. The trick is, even in the mode where the corners can touch, the game NEVER positions its own ships this way. Thus, when you find one ship, you can automatically exclue the four corner squares, even though they still appear as targets.
Also, the system almost always positions ships so that at least one will be on/very near the center four squares. Start there. Clear the center four, work your way out from there. You’ll find at least one ship, often more almost immediately.
Then it’s just a matter of using diagonal targeting to narrow down the bigger ships, and when you’ve found them, you then split the contiguous blocks to narrow them down and find the smaller ships.
Easy game, but entertaining enough to pass a few minutes.
about 5 months ago
Fun game, but pretty easy to beat.
Hint: Game has two modes; one mode lets you position ships where the corners touch, the other doesn’t let the corners touch. When you sink a ship, the system automatically excludes the surrounding squares as available targets. If the “corners can touch” mode is enabled, the corners are not cleared as targets. The trick is, even in the mode where the corners can touch, the game NEVER positions its own ships this way. Thus, when you find one ship, you can automatically exclue the four corner squares, even though they still appear as targets.
Also, the system almost always positions ships so that at least one will be on/very near the center four squares. Start there. Clear the center four, work your way out from there. You’ll find at least one ship, often more almost immediately.
Then it’s just a matter of using diagonal targeting to narrow down the bigger ships, and when you’ve found them, you then split the contiguous blocks to narrow them down and find the smaller ships.
Easy game, but entertaining enough to pass a few minutes.