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Salvo

The pencil-and-paper game that the board game came from. Each player secretly draws five ships on a grid. Take turns calling out squares like "B7", and your opponent says hit or miss. Sink every one of their ships before they sink yours.

Set up · 1 of 3

Each player draws two grids, ten squares by ten. Label the columns A to J and the rows 1 to 10. One grid is for your ships, the other is for tracking your shots.

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Secretly draw five ships on your ship grid, each running across or down: one 5 squares long, one 4, two 3 and one 2. Ships can't overlap.

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Sit so you can't see each other's paper.

How to play · 1 of 4

Call a shot

On your turn, call out one square, like "B7."

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Hit or miss

Your opponent checks their ship grid and says "hit" or "miss". Mark it on your shots grid: an X for a hit, a dot for a miss.

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Sink it

When every square of a ship has been hit, its owner says which one sank: "You sank my 3."

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Take turns

Then it's their shot. One shot each, back and forth.

How to win

The first player to sink all five of the other player's ships wins.