Solitaire Battleships: 108 Challenging Logic Puzzles

by Peter Gordon and Mike Shenk

Ships ahoy--ten of them, in fact--and you have to find them This solitaire version of the classic paper and pencil game consists of an "ocean," represented by a grid, in which a flotilla of vessels is concealed. Each fleet contains one battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers, and four submarines, and they may be oriented either horizontally or vertically, but never occupy adjacent squares. Most of the puzzles start you off by revealing the contents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806959568
• ISBN13: 9780806959566
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent exercise in logic

This is an outstanding puzzle book! I was surprised that there were only two reviews for it. Being a middle-aged male with a BA from a midwestern university and with an average math ability, this book provided hours of mental challanges and frustrations. Excellent for estabilishing or strengthening basic logic skills. Although I find it hard to believe that many average children would be able to complete many of the more advanced level puzzels. The introduction is done very nicely. First, it spells out the rules then provides excellent examples in the skill of deduction. Too bad there are only 54 pages of puzzles. Perhaps a second book is in order?

The math-oriented crossword puzzle

My 8-year-old can't do crossword puzzles yet, because he's just an average reader. But he is a math whiz and WOW, can he do Battleships! I'm working on making this game a standard for 2nd grade math and logic classes....