Battleships (Puzzleship)
Rate itFind the hidden fleet from the number of ship cells in each row and column.
on puzzleship.com
Puzzleship's Battleships is the solitaire version of the classic game, also known as Bimaru. Numbers beside each row and column say how many cells hold ship, the fleet list says which ships to find, and no two ships touch, even at a corner. From those facts alone the whole fleet can be placed.
About Battleships (Puzzleship)
Battleships turns the guessing game into pure deduction. The grid hides a fleet of ships of different lengths, listed beside the board. Each row and column has a number telling you how many of its cells are ship, and ships never touch one another, not even diagonally. There is no luck involved: the counts are enough to pin down every ship.
Most of a solve is bookkeeping done in the right order. Every ship cell you commit turns its diagonal neighbours into water, a line whose count is already met fills with water, and a line whose remaining unknown cells equal its count fills with ship. The biggest ship usually has the fewest places it could fit, so ruling out where it cannot go is the quickest way in.
Puzzleship, run by Brainzil, LLC, publishes six fleets of Battleships a day, graded from very easy to ultra hard. Each day's fleets are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and a new set goes live at 13:00 UTC, whatever the countdown text says about midnight; earlier days stay playable in the archive. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.
How to play Battleships (Puzzleship)
- Open Battleships and pick one of the day's six levels from the row of bulbs above the grid.
- Check the fleet list beside the grid to see which ships you need.
- Tap a cell to cycle it between water, ship and blank, or drag to mark several.
- Use the row and column counts, and the rule that ships never touch, to place every ship.
- Finish when every ship is placed and every count is met.
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Tips
- As soon as you mark a ship cell, mark its four diagonal neighbours as water.
- Compare each line's count with its unknown cells: equal means all ship, met means all water.
- Place the largest ship first by working out where it cannot fit.
- Re-check the counts on every line you touch after each placement.
- A row or column with a count of 0 is all water: mark it first.
Questions
How many Battleships puzzles are there each day?
Six, graded from very easy to ultra hard.
When do new Battleships puzzles appear?
At 13:00 UTC each day. The page says 00:00 your time, but on 20 October 2026 at 01:00 UTC it still served the 19 October set, which had gone live at 13:00 UTC.
Can I play earlier days?
Yes. Puzzleship keeps past puzzles in an archive.
Is it free?
Yes, with ads. A Puzzleship premium plan removes them.
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