Battleship board games have been considered to be the best intellectual games all over the world. It all entails two players and involves paper and pen. It may all be about guessing but to some they have learnt the various tricks and know how to be the conquerors.

It all predates World War 1 and was invented by Clifford Von Wickller early in the 1900s. The game is played on a four grid paper and involves war between the two rivals. It all depends on how one has learnt the game in order to win it. Various variations have been brought up and they all seem to amaze the players who faithfully play the game.

Some of them include Tetris battleship that involves pieces that have five different four-squared polyomino also known as tetrominos. Another is the digital battleships which are made up of a puzzle board and has cells each having a certain digit and yet the board hides a classic fleet of ships. When it is tallied they equal the sum of the digits corresponding to the number of ships.

Do or die kind of battleship objective entails the introduction of the six dices on the grid such that the additions end up being the totting up to the die pips being correct. Hexagonal battleships come in three forms, there is on that was played on the ninth world puzzle ship, another that is known as the classic and the last being the Hexagonal Tetremonies.

Wild card battleship is almost as same as this ones but the only difference is that the ship segments hints are wildcards instead of the ship segment. In Foggy battleship it has been varieties such that there are no columns or even rows but plethora of ship segments hints are provided.

In any case the weather is foggy as the name suggests and therefore it makes it hard for one to find the several of the hints there. You know that they are there but cannot tell which one it may be precisely.

One of the fascinating variations is one known as Thermometer Battleship whereby the ships are being replaced by thermometers in the grid. In that they are not able to touch each other at any given moment not even at a diagonal angle.

The types of thermometers are of one four unit thermometer, two three unit thermometer, three two unit thermometer and four one unit thermometers. It may be that part of the thermometer if filled with mercury or even none at all. All in all it starts from its mouth. The good thing about it is that is has several ways for it to be solved.

There are many other variations of the game but some have managed to be at the top and have even published. Most of them have been in the Ninth World Puzzle ship and they include; Tangram Battleships, Ships Battleships, Easy As Battleship, Crowded Battleship, Weighted Battleship and Retrograde Battleships. With all this variations you can never miss one you like because the list is endless.