History
The solitaire version of Battleship was invented in Argentina in 1982 under the name Batalla Naval, with the first published puzzles appearing in 1982 in the Spanish magazine Humor & Juegos. Battleship was created by Jaime Poniachik, founder of Humor & Juegos, and Eduardo Abel Gimenez, Jorge Varlotta, and Daniel Samoilovich, who were editors of the magazine.
After 1982, no more Battleship puzzles were published until five years later in 1987, when Battleship puzzles were published in Juegos Para Gente De Mente, a renamed version of Humor & Juegos. The publishing company of Juegos Para Gente de Mente regularly publishes Battleship puzzles in its monthly magazine Enigmas Lógicos.
Battleship made its international debut at the first World Puzzle Championship in New York in 1992 and met with success. The next World Puzzle Championship in 1993 featured a variant of Battleship that omitted some of the row and column numbers. Other variants have emerged since then, including Hexagonal Battleship, 3D Battleship, and Diagonal Battleship.
Battleship was first published in Games magazine in 1993, the year after the first World Puzzle Championship.
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