Battleship (game)

"You've literally sunk my battleship."

- Jovenshire

Battleship is a strategy board game referenced on Smosh and Smosh Games.

Game information
Battleship was originally a pencil-and-paper public domain game known by different names, such as Battleships and Sea Battle, but was made by the into the well-known board game in 1967, featuring plastic grids with holes that could hold plastic pegs used to record players' guesses, instead of the original pencil-and-paper grids. In Battleship, each player deploys their ships, of lengths varying from 2 to 5 squares, secretly on a square grid. Each player then "shoots" at the other's grid by calling a square's coordinates on the grid. The defender responds with "Hit!" or "Miss!"; using this, players must deduce where the enemy ships are and sink them. The first to do so wins.

Battleship was included in the 2008 game  for the PlayStation 2, Wii, and the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. A minigame version was used in the third season of 's television game show. In 2012, the military science fiction action film  was released, which was inspired by the board game. A version of Battleship based on the movie was released in, which one side had alien ship playing pieces.

Smosh

 * In "Battleship", Ian and Anthony play a game of Battleship. When Anthony wins, Ian flies into a rage and beats Anthony with a cardboard tube before shooting him to death with a toy gun.
 * Battleship is the third game spoofed in the If It Were Real episode "IF BOARD GAMES WERE REAL". In its segment, a naval general orders his ship to fire at coordinates B9; however, instead of hitting a ship, they hit a bus filled with orphan children.

Smosh Games

 * In the Grand Theft Smosh episode "BATTLESHIP BLOOD FEUD", the Smosh Games Crew plays a game of Battleship on Grand Theft Auto Online.