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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. Invented blank graph notebooks, partition and loose miniature ships; hidden-information game context.
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Why: A grid-guessing naval game first played on paper.
What to preserve: Pencil-paper grid, plastic set, rules
Year and origin: 1967 (board version) · United States
Vote: 4/9 (historian 1 · future kid 2 · curator 1)
Learn more: Battleship (game) on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
Battleship uses concealed ship locations and coordinate guesses to structure a contest between two players. Its paper history precedes the familiar plastic product. Future readers can compare how a simple information-hiding rule survives changes in materials, from marked sheets to dedicated boards, without treating every edition as identical.
Creator/community: Paper-game players and commercial game makers, including Milton Bradley Place/era: Paper-and-pencil predecessors; United States plastic board version introduced in 1967
Context and limits
Blank graph notebooks and loose toy ships suggest the game but show no playable position, coordinates or authentic product. The 1967 date concerns a commercial plastic version, not the invention of all related paper games. Naval play is not a simulation of real warfare.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
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Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0592
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