Battleships Puzzles - US Puzzle Championship #1

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How to solve Battleship puzzles - a journey into the US Puzzle Championship!
The 2017 US Puzzle Championship: wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2017/
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The picture used in thumbnail is the Chilean Battleship Almirante Latorre, and the picture is in the public domain: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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  • @Bakedbri
    @Bakedbri6 жыл бұрын

    The way you can hear the smile in your voice when you mention your daughter is the sweetest thing ever and distracted me for the rest of the video

  • @danaondrackova3431

    @danaondrackova3431

    6 жыл бұрын

    that is true, it is heard there the change in his voice :-)

  • @Achw3l

    @Achw3l

    6 жыл бұрын

    Haha you're right, that's adorable

  • @0ThrowawayAccount0
    @0ThrowawayAccount06 жыл бұрын

    Yo, FLEB! I love how you have changed your transition video by making it shorter and now quieter. You are the man. Your daughter has a great dad!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @Shlafoutre
    @Shlafoutre6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video Fleb, I like when you solve those kind of puzzles and explain your though process while doing it!

  • @zanzlanz
    @zanzlanz6 жыл бұрын

    I paused and solved before watching. It's really cool that we can take such different paths when solving, and still converge to the one solution at the end. Fun puzzle, and great video!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done! I find it interesting to see how other people solve as well!

  • @LpSamuelm

    @LpSamuelm

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wait, Zanzlanz? Didn't you make Str1ngle? I bought the soundtrack for that game! What a place to run into you in, hahah.

  • @zanzlanz

    @zanzlanz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Woah! Hey! I still have the email from that actually :D I think this might be the most unusual reason and place that someone recognized me too haha. Gotta love FLEB though! Thanks for saying hi! :)

  • @dalo2806
    @dalo28066 жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial. You just got me into Battleship Puzzles. Keep up the good work!

  • @enochzenithimyuen575
    @enochzenithimyuen5756 жыл бұрын

    yay! I love these puzzles!

  • @DukeDezh
    @DukeDezh6 жыл бұрын

    For almost all your videos so far, I loved them because they were interesting, but they weren't about puzzles I really enjoyed solving all that much personally. But between the star battles and this one, this series is perfectly right up my alley! I am already a star battle addict, and can't wait to solve more battleship puzzles. :D

  • @kyleslentz1326

    @kyleslentz1326

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kyle Dilks You should check out the Logic Games app, it has battleships and a star placing game as well as tons of others. It's really cool!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Right on Kyle Dilks! I'll try to do even more logic puzzles!

  • @Hannah-le4go
    @Hannah-le4go6 жыл бұрын

    Finally a puzzle that I can solve. I used to solve it every monday in the paper on my way to school.

  • @danz107
    @danz1076 жыл бұрын

    Hey Fleb, love the videos. I really like the newer ones, with the logic puzzles. It's great that there are actually apps that simulate these puzzles so people can learn them easily too

  • @SligsTV
    @SligsTV6 жыл бұрын

    I am in the enrichment program at my school and we do these puzzles often. To be honest, the example puzzle in the video was pretty simple. I love your content and I might try your strategy out for a change.

  • @elsaqueen8872
    @elsaqueen88726 жыл бұрын

    I love all your puzzle solving videos so much! You have already cover the star battle and the battleship. Could you show us about Cave, Yajilin and Mosyu!!

  • @marcelvdberg
    @marcelvdberg6 жыл бұрын

    Amazing stuff!

  • @onedeadsaint
    @onedeadsaint6 жыл бұрын

    hello fleb! I was hoping for possibly another video on starbattle. I'm hoping you'll be able to basically give a definitive strategy guide to even the hardest puzzles. I ask this because I picked up an app and I think I've just about reached my limit of skill and the hardest ones are now kicking me ass. thanks, fleb! love the content!

  • @ckester5742

    @ckester5742

    6 жыл бұрын

    onedeadsaint Star Battle Brain Games? I'm at Extreme and Huge. The description is true! LOGIC HELL!!!! But still fun....😆

  • @collectivelight
    @collectivelight6 жыл бұрын

    That was a fun puzzle! It reminds me a lot of sodoku.

  • @TyphoidBryan
    @TyphoidBryan6 жыл бұрын

    Well, I ended up loving the Space Battle puzzles, so I am pretty sure I will feel the same about these as well.

  • @NAT3s
    @NAT3s6 жыл бұрын

    Love the logic puzzle content!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @ckester5742

    @ckester5742

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mave It's awesome! It's puzzles we can actually solve!

  • @NAT3s

    @NAT3s

    6 жыл бұрын

    Haha. I dabble in cubes... I can do the standard Rubiks, a 4x4x4, and a few other variants, but beyond that the enjoyment fades. I don't enjoy the ones where I have to memorize too much... if I can figure most of it by deduction and intuition, I'm excited for it. These logic puzzles can be solved by anyone though with some brainpower! Plus, it's kind of soothing to see them explained in the FLEB way. I downloaded a StarBattle app after his video on those puzzles and have been enjoying them. Reminds me of Picross. Though, I'd love to do some by hand... FLEB, any book recommendations for logic puzzles like this?

  • @Fox_RZK
    @Fox_RZK6 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow, finally something on the more obscure side that I've done before! I played way too much of these on my phone. I didn't know you do these on paper

  • @sex0trone

    @sex0trone

    6 жыл бұрын

    Can you give us an app name?

  • @CrankyDay

    @CrankyDay

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Mlorpe Conceptis has apps for a lot of logic puzzles, including Battleship.

  • @Fox_RZK

    @Fox_RZK

    6 жыл бұрын

    I believe it's called "Battleship Solitaire Puzzles"

  • @kyleslentz1326

    @kyleslentz1326

    6 жыл бұрын

    I have played these on an app called Logic Games. There are like 100 other puzzle types on there too!

  • @Kokkilisa
    @Kokkilisa6 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of Picross! I recently discovered it and I've been so addicted to it, maybe you could do a video on it!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maybe! We shall see...

  • @raquel82395
    @raquel823956 жыл бұрын

    Fleb, have you played a nanogram puzzle? I'd like to see a nanogram puzzle on the channel!

  • @accipiterignitus5123
    @accipiterignitus51236 жыл бұрын

    Good Job :)

  • @Kelis-melissa
    @Kelis-melissa6 жыл бұрын

    Interesting!

  • @oldhippy1017
    @oldhippy10176 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Robertlavigne1
    @Robertlavigne16 жыл бұрын

    Creepy, I just started doing these puzzles last night. Nice timing, though I was stuck on one and picked up some good tricks.

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nice! I'm happy to hear you picked up some new techniques!

  • @PerMortensen
    @PerMortensen6 жыл бұрын

    This plays very similarly to SquareCells. I heartily recommend it and the other games in that series HexCells and CrossCells. All good and cheap.

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    SquareCells is great!

  • @katarzynaw4664
    @katarzynaw46646 жыл бұрын

    I hope you will do some slitherlink (hope this is a known name of that puzzle), 'cause I still cannot figure out how to solve them ;)

  • @unspeakablevorn

    @unspeakablevorn

    6 жыл бұрын

    I got a lot of mileage out of a technique I found in the documentation for Everett Kaser's game "Jonah's Journey": you can label corners of squares by whether they must have an odd or even number of edges in that square, and can propagate this information: the corresponding corner in the diagonally-adjacent square has the same parity, and the opposite corner has the same parity in even-numbered squares and opposite parity in odd-numbered squares. In addition, 2s will have at most two even-parity corners, so getting an even-parity corner forces the parity of every other corner.

  • @rmsgrey

    @rmsgrey

    6 жыл бұрын

    The main starting points are: - any 0 clues - any clusters of 3s - an orthogonally adjacent pair have to have a S shaped path, so you can fill in their shared edges and the two edges parallel (and block the edges that would continue that shared edge); a diagonally adjacent pair, you can fill the edges that don't touch the shared corner. - any number in a corner - 1, you can block the edges in the corner; 3 you can fill the edges in the corner; 2, you can fill the edges of the adjacent squares that lie along the edge of the grid. From there, you can look for places where an edge would create a closed loop, which you can block, or where all but one edge to a vertex are blocked, in which case you can block the last one. Hopefully that gives enough to get you started (assuming you haven't just watched FLEB's video he's since uploaded :) ) The corner parity trick is more advanced, but can let you make deductions at a distance - for example, if you have a diagonal run of numbers from a corner square going 32222222221 then you can fill two edges of the 3 and block two edges of the 1. Or a diagonal run of 0222222223 lets you fill in two edges of each 2 and of the 3. Another advanced trick is to mark which squares are inside and which are outside the loop - two adjacent squares whose shared edge is blocked are either both inside or both outside (and vice versa) and squares whose shared edge is filled are one of each (and vice versa). This only occasionally gives you any useful information, but if, particularly in a larger puzzle, you've expanded from two different edges, and the solved regions touch, knowing whether those squares are inside or outside along the shared boundary can give you information that's hard to figure out any other way. A mostly equivalent, slightly more general trick is to imagine drawing a closed curve over the puzzle so that it doesn't pass through any vertices. That curve will have to cross an even number of filled edges (each time it crosses a filled edge, it goes from inside to outside, or vice versa) so picking the right closed curve can sometimes tell you whether a particular edge needs to be filled or blocked.

  • @emuwarrior13
    @emuwarrior136 жыл бұрын

    This one was really cool. I can't wait to try some of them. Congrats on your newborn! Now you have to start dropping dad jokes on us

  • @zalibecquerel3463
    @zalibecquerel34636 жыл бұрын

    Hi Fleb. This reminds me of the first part of the 2015 (?) GCHQ Christmas Puzzle. The answer formed a QR code pointing to the next section of the puzzle. Ever think about doing some of the GCHQ Christmas Puzzles for your videos? The answers are all known, but it would be interesting to see your methodological approach.

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    I could. Are they puzzlehunt puzzles? As in, do they result in an English word or phrase?

  • @zalibecquerel3463

    @zalibecquerel3463

    6 жыл бұрын

    @Fleb Not exactly. If you take a photo of the solved grid with a smartphone, it *might* give you an English word or phrase... (Or a URL).

  • @ChrisWEarly
    @ChrisWEarly6 жыл бұрын

    Happy puzzling 😊

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Happy puzzling to you as well!

  • @thechocolatefactory
    @thechocolatefactory6 жыл бұрын

    yoooo these are really cool. just googled battleships logic puzzles and now i'm doing some on a site called brainbashers. really fun stuff

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nice! I hope you enjoy them!

  • @TheLastPhoen1x
    @TheLastPhoen1x6 жыл бұрын

    Looks like it is similar to one of those Japanese Crosswords, and solves the same way (xcept diagonals)

  • @manueldelalas
    @manueldelalas6 жыл бұрын

    In your link, most of the puzzles have lines or columns with no number, how do you even start those? Like the newest one by T Snyder...

  • @manueldelalas

    @manueldelalas

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm just dumb, lol. No numbers mean any number of pieces; obviously, now I can start.

  • @carpetlick5243
    @carpetlick52436 жыл бұрын

    How do you qualify for a Puzzle Championship?

  • @drewskidmore9392
    @drewskidmore93926 жыл бұрын

    Is that a Pentel Twist-Erase III I'm seeing there? FLEB has great taste in pencils.

  • @0ThrowawayAccount0

    @0ThrowawayAccount0

    6 жыл бұрын

    I am glad I am not the only one looking at his pencil. I still think the Kuru Toga is the best though... :)

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    It is! Nice eye!

  • @gcwrestling888
    @gcwrestling8886 жыл бұрын

    FLEB!!!! CONGRATS ON THE DAUGHTER!!!! FLEB FLEB FLEB FLEB FLEB!!!!!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks EJS88!

  • @LightningSe7en
    @LightningSe7en6 жыл бұрын

    So it's a "ship sudoku". Neat.

  • @AngrySanta

    @AngrySanta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Star Battle is a closer relative as he said. The inferences are much easier with sudoku.

  • @LightningSe7en

    @LightningSe7en

    6 жыл бұрын

    Angry Santa I don't know about Star Battle so I can't really use it for comparison. I am not discrediting it though. Sudoku is simply the closest from my limited knowledge.

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    There is a puzzle called Battleship Sudoku! It's Sudoku, but some numbers are on the ships and must be placed accordingly.

  • @yakisobaguitarist
    @yakisobaguitarist6 жыл бұрын

    It's like picross!

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    It is like picross! Lots of similarities!

  • @coolwolfpower8429
    @coolwolfpower84296 жыл бұрын

    I know it’s a little late but I didn’t know so congrats on becoming a father

  • @danaondrackova3431
    @danaondrackova34316 жыл бұрын

    I really like this games it looks hard but after you get it it is not that hard to play with it, even when it is the easiest one :-)

  • @ellismiles9109
    @ellismiles91096 жыл бұрын

    Doot doot

  • @hmm-bw4pg
    @hmm-bw4pg5 жыл бұрын

    What is you real name?

  • @chelseapeterson35
    @chelseapeterson356 жыл бұрын

    Battleship sudoku ??

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    That is a puzzle type! It's not this, but it's similar!

  • @garrythirtle
    @garrythirtle5 жыл бұрын

    This is one puzzle i actually solved without cheating 😜

  • @Emile.gorgonZola
    @Emile.gorgonZola6 жыл бұрын

    looks easy

  • @jibster5903
    @jibster59036 жыл бұрын

    Warning this comment may spoil the puzzle; (Also youtube add a spoiler tag so people can only see the comment when clicked). I missed the last 2 segment boat and just looked at which of the two three segment arrangements on the left would give me a correct answer, guess i outsmarted the puzzle :)

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's a fine way to do it as well!

  • @eronth
    @eronth6 жыл бұрын

    "The puzzle consists of this grid, which has some shit pieces filled in..."

  • @Chaytup
    @Chaytup6 жыл бұрын

    Is your daughter named flebette?

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    If I called my daughter that, what would I call my wife?

  • @non-pe8xn
    @non-pe8xn6 жыл бұрын

    Hope your daughter is doing well :)

  • @link464
    @link4646 жыл бұрын

    I tried the puzzle before watching the second half of the video and got a solution, but the one you showed is different. Mine seems to work, but maybe I'm missing a mistake I made? i.imgur.com/qzgf3RP.png It was fun working it out though, like another commenter said, this was a lot like Picross, which I love.

  • @zanzlanz

    @zanzlanz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Your solution doesn't work because you erased the water in the last column. You can't place a ship on the water :)

  • @FLEBpuzzles

    @FLEBpuzzles

    6 жыл бұрын

    Zanzlanz is correct. Sorry for the late response!

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