It's missing some really basic instructions, i.e. clicking cycles between "not marked", "marked as water" and "marked as ship". Just saying "Click squares to set where you think the ships are." is singularly unhelpful.
This is great! I'd love to see it as part of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/</a>
Solitaire Battleship is very similar to "nonogram puzzles", e.g.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram</a><p><a href="https://www.puzzle-nonograms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.puzzle-nonograms.com/</a><p>You have a grid where the rows and columns are labeled with how many squares there are (additional info: you get splits, like "3 2" means there is a run of 3, and 2). You have to work out the image.<p>This Solitaire Battleship is hard though, because of the sparse placement and has other elements to it.<p>There is a similarity to this and the reconstruction of an image from projection data. Horizontal and vertical histogram data has been used for OCR. (You can recognize a glyph from the histogram patterns.)<p>This is also related to the backprojection technique used in CT scans to reconstruct the slice images.
This looks to be as addictive as 2048. I still play that one.<p><a href="https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/" rel="nofollow">https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/</a>
I've been able to solve all the ones I've gotten so far, but I'm stumped as to how to do this one (<a href="https://i.imgur.com/6qmZX7z.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/6qmZX7z.png</a>) without<p>1. trial and error, or<p>2. using the checking tool to see what I did wrong (cheating in a sense)<p>I feel like there's a strategy that I'm missing here. I'm just not sure what my next step should be, which would probably help me get all the rest done.
Here is how to solve them with SAT: <a href="http://kmkeen.com/battleship/" rel="nofollow">http://kmkeen.com/battleship/</a>
I was confused at first, but by 'mistakes' the author only means false positives, and not false negatives.<p>I guess... "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
This puzzle is a bit janky and is able to have multiple solutions but only accepts one [1]. I recommend checking out similar-style puzzles called "nonograms" which are widely available.<p>[1] <a href="https://i.imgur.com/1leWCg9.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/1leWCg9.png</a>