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The Battleship puzzle (sometimes called Bimaru, Yubotu, Solitaire Battleships or Battleship Solitaire) is a logic puzzle based on the Battleship guessing game. It and its variants have appeared in several puzzle contests, including the World Puzzle Championship , [ 1 ] and puzzle magazines, such as Games magazine.
The game of Battleship is thought to have its origins in the French game L'Attaque played during World War I, although parallels have also been drawn to E. I. Horsman's 1890 game Basilinda, [1] and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. [3] In 1907 the game playing was mentioned in the diary of Russian poet Ryurik Ivnev. [4]
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Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures: War At Sea is a standalone miniature wargame, originally produced by Avalon Hill, later by Wizards of the Coast.Axis and Allies Naval Miniatures gameplay is associated with Axis & Allies Miniatures, a World War 2 land battles game also made by Avalon Hill, but the two games are very different.
USS Oregon (BB-3) was the third and final member of the Indiana class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The three ships were built as part of a modernization program aimed at strengthening the American fleet to prepare for a possible conflict with a European navy.
SMS Markgraf [a] was the third dreadnought battleship of the four-ship König class. She served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I. The battleship was laid down in November 1911 and launched on 4 June 1913. She was formally commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 1 October 1914, just over two months after the outbreak of war in Europe.
Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
USS [a] Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class fast battleship that was laid down for the United States Navy during World War II in the 1940s, although she would not be completed. The Navy had initially planned on building four of the Iowa s and then developing a new, more powerful ship for what was to be BB-65.