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Printable Battleship Game Sheets
Battleship started as a pencil-and-paper game long before the plastic board version. Each player gets a sheet with two 10 by 10 grids: one for hiding your own fleet and one for tracking shots at the opponent. Rows are lettered A to J and columns numbered 1 to 10, so every shot is called like B7 or J10.
Preview of page 1. 215.9 mm × 279.4 mm. Print at 100% (“Actual size”) to keep the spacing exact.
What people use it for
- Travel, car and waiting-room games with just a pencil
- Classroom practice for coordinates and grid references
- Rainy day games for families and after-school clubs
- Long-distance games over the phone or chat
- Party and camp activities when you need many sheets at once
Standard measurements
| Grid | Two 10 x 10 grids per player, rows A to J, columns 1 to 10 |
|---|---|
| Classic fleet (1990 Milton Bradley rules) | Carrier 5, Battleship 4, Cruiser 3, Submarine 3, Destroyer 2 (17 squares) |
Tips for battleship
- Print two sheets, one per player, and sit so neither can see the other's paper.
- Draw your ships in the left grid along rows or columns, never diagonally, and agree before starting whether ships may touch.
- Call shots by letter and number; mark hits with X and misses with a dot on your tracking grid.
- When all squares of a ship are hit, the owner announces it as sunk. The first to sink the whole enemy fleet wins.
- Print several pages at once for a tournament; the page count setting saves running the printer again.
Printing tip: in the print dialog choose Actual size or 100%, not “Fit to page”, or the spacing shrinks slightly. How we keep sizes exact.
Questions
What ships are in Battleship?
The 1990 Milton Bradley rules use five ships: carrier (5 squares), battleship (4), cruiser (3), submarine (3) and destroyer (2), for 17 squares in total.
How big is a Battleship grid?
The standard grid is 10 by 10 squares. Rows are usually lettered A to J and columns numbered 1 to 10, giving 100 squares for each player's ocean.
Can ships be placed diagonally?
In the classic rules ships sit horizontally or vertically only. Some families allow diagonals as a house rule, so agree before the first shot.
How old is the game?
Battleship was played on paper as early as World War I. A commercial pad version called Salvo was published in the United States in 1931.
