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House rules
Fogbound Fleet
Hide five harbour birds on a ten-by-ten sea, then trade shots with a computer captain who hunts through the fog. Sink the whole fleet first.
- Room
- Boards
- Game
- Sea battle
- Made for
- 1999
Play Fogbound Fleet
Free, no sign-up. Mouse, touch or keyboard.
How to play
- Click the water to set each ship (R or the Across/Down button turns it) or press Shuffle, then click a square to fire.
- Arrows + Enter do the same.
- U undo, H hint, Q end.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Tap the water to set each ship, Across/Down turns it, Shuffle lays them out for you.
- Then tap a square to fire.
- Undo, Hint and End sit along the bottom.
Take as long as you like. Pause any time with P; calm mode turns off every flash and shake.
Maker’s note
Two grids and a lot of fog. You place five ships, the Heron, Cormorant, Gannet, Plover and Wren, by tapping the water (each tap centres the ship) or by pressing Shuffle for a seeded layout. Then it is one shot each. The computer never looks at your fleet. It sees only what you can see, the shots already fired and which ships have gone down. Easy wanders and sometimes follows a hit, medium searches a checkerboard and chases a hit in straight lines, hard weighs every way the ships it has not sunk could still be lying. Ranked play is one battle, medium on the daily and hard on the weekly. Fewer shots, ships of yours left afloat and a small time bonus score points, and undo and hint cost points. The computer's fleet and its shots come from the run seed, and each run is stored as a list of moves that the server replays before it counts.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 160
- 2120
- 3180
- 4240
- 5290
- 6340
- 7390
- 8430
Each target is a step up. Reach the last one and you have outplayed the workshop.
In the Boards room
Board and tile games across a quiet table, one move at a time.
Your hands
Your best ten are kept in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked hand, so clearing site data clears the list.
