Electronic Battleship
BGG rank
BGG #31,284
BGG rating
5.1

Electronic Battleship

1977

Rules assistance for Electronic Battleship

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.2/5

Rules assistant for Electronic Battleship

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Electronic Battleship is a board game released in 1977 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Robert Doyle and its main mechanics are Secret Unit Deployment.

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About the game

The same game as "classic" Battleship, but instead of your opponent telling you whether you have hit or missed, you enter the coordinates for your shot into the computer and it either flashes a red light and makes an explosion sound if you hit or a whistling sound if you missed. Later versions added a "code book" with 100+ different ship layouts to speed up the initial setup of the game (in the original version you had to program in the coordinates for all of your ships manually).

Designers

Publishers

  • Hasbro
  • MB Juegos
  • Milton Bradley
  • Clementoni
  • Falomir Juegos
  • Excalibur Electronics
  • MB Giochi
  • Millennium 2000 GmbH

Questions and answers

Electronic Battleship supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.