http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/battleship-value-playing-game Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/battleship-value-playing-game/comment-page-1#comment-108126 Jesse Fuchs Sun, 13 May 2012 02:56:13 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2499640#comment-108126 The early Battleship is actually quite a cerebral workout, unlike the modern kids' game. Players were given a "salvo" of shots—either three, or as many types of ships as you still had, depending on the variant—and they were announced all at once. Then, your opponent told you what happened (i.e., "One miss, one hit on a battleship, and a destroyer was sunk"), but NOT which missile did what. It's actually a game where getting all misses is a good thing, because then you don't have to have a grid with a bunch of question marks and cryptic notations. It's no Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space, but it's far less far off than you'd think. The early Battleship is actually quite a cerebral workout, unlike the modern kids’ game. Players were given a “salvo” of shots—either three, or as many types of ships as you still had, depending on the variant—and they were announced all at once. Then, your opponent told you what happened (i.e., “One miss, one hit on a battleship, and a destroyer was sunk”), but NOT which missile did what. It’s actually a game where getting all misses is a good thing, because then you don’t have to have a grid with a bunch of question marks and cryptic notations. It’s no Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space, but it’s far less far off than you’d think.

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