She did mention my strategy as the checkerboard method as well as looking at the way the ships can be arranged at different places on the board – this would make for a great mathematics classroom discussion with students about the probabilities of where the ships might be.Īccording to Alemi (2011) the reason for the differences in chances of getting a hit is due to the ways in which the ships can be laid out. If this interests you too, Natalie Oldfield’s blog post Mathematics Behind Battleship was a great read. After playing I was then curious about the actual mathematics and probability behind the game. I choose to try picking every second square in each column. I definitely thought there must be a mathematical way to do this! Without Googling, I tried to think of a logical way to play.
While I was playing, I did begin to wonder about the mathematics involved in where I ‘guessed’ the ships might be.
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