This is accomplished by arranging your ships as noted in #5 above. So, to greatly confuse your opponents EVERY TIME, leave some empty space. If there's a bunch of white pegs on the bottom, then there must be a ship to hit and put red pegs at the top. This tip is just GREAT! It's funny to watch your opponent guessing all these spots in your gap area-and getting annoyed that they can't find your ships! They do this because "surely" this giant gap on their boards between (or outside of) their white pegs "must" contain a ship! It's our brain's natural desire to give symmetry to things. So don't worry, this usually doesn't effect the above tips at all. NOTE: Even after your opponent sinks a vertical ship, it's very rare that they start guessing more vertical spaces. Otherwise, when your opponent hits one ship and starts guessing other squares around it, they might start destroying a second ship in the process. Just be sure not to put your ships so close together that their squares are touching horizontally or vertically (diagonally is OK). So keeping your ships closer together will result in being hit (and sunk) less. For instance, if they sink a ship at F6-I6, their next guesses will be somewhere further away from that (as if they gained a big victory in that one location and now it's time to move elsewhere). When people are guessing where they think your ships are, they tend to guess sporadically. You will also note that the other three ships are in a little group near the mid-bottom right of the board. As you can see in the second picture, my first two ships are vertically placed in columns 2 and 3 within a shorter distance of each other. If they are vertical, you will buy some time while your opponent tries to figure out which way your ship is facing.ĥ. If your ships are horizontal (A1, A2, A3, A4) they will be sunk in a hurry. Therefore, when your opponent guesses, they will most likely guess the next number horizontally after the "hit" location on your ship. This is just how our brains are taught to function (for example, when you're taught to count, you say 1, 2, 3, 4). Once your ship has been found, the natural guess for your opponent is to guess in numerical order. Just by reading those two sets of four (A1-A4 and A3-D3), did you notice it was easier to quickly read A1-A4 and that your brain kind of "hiccups" or "stutters" (aka you had to read it a little slower) trying to adjust to reading A3-D3? See the reason why that is next.Ĥa. Now, instead of your opponent seeing the gap on their board and guessing your ship at A1, A2, A3, and A4.your ship is now hidden better at A3, B3, C3, and D3 (for example). So, if you place them vertically, you reduce your chances of the ships being found. My guess is that it's probably natural because (in North America and a lot of other countries) we read left to right horizontally. When someone is scanning their board for your ships, they will tend to look across the board (more then they look up and down the board) for a guess, meaning they will start looking at the horizontal spaces and gaps (naturally) when determining where they think your ships are. Horizontal ships take up a lot more space over more columns, giving your opponent an advantage to finding them sooner. If you place your ships mostly vertical, it will help them get hit a lot less. This takes way more thought and strategic placement, which in turn, yields better results and more wins for you! Such places to put your ships are: H8, I2, F6, C7, etc.Ĥ.
Things that don't roll off the tongue easily will be your best bet for hiding your ships. Put your ships in harder-to-say locations. I don't know why this is, per se, but it's a fact (just put it to the test). People tend to naturally-second-naturedly-guess the places that they can easily say. In addition to avoiding columns 1, 5, and 10, also avoid anywhere that you can easily say, or that rolls off the tongue easily. If you want to hide your ships the stealthiest, always avoid putting them in these columns.Ģ. After playing a lot of Battleship, and observing the most routinely guessed locations, I've discovered that columns 1, 5, and 10 are literally the most highly guessed columns EVERY TIME. In order to place your ships in the most ideal locations, consider the following tips.ġ.
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