Battleships Puzzles - US Puzzle Championship #1

[@Bakedbri]

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]

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

[@Achw3l]

Haha you're right, that's adorable

[@Shlafoutre]

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

[@DukeDezh]

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]

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]

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

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

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]

Thank you very much!

[@SligsTV]

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.

[@zanzlanz]

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]

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

[@LpSamuelm]

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

[@zanzlanz]

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]

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

[@danz107]

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

[@Hannah-le4go]

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

[@elsaqueen8872]

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!!

[@onedeadsaint]

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]

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

[@enochzenithimyuen575]

yay! I love these puzzles!

[@Fox_RZK]

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]

Can you give us an app name?

[@CrankyDay]

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

[@Fox_RZK]

I believe it's called "Battleship Solitaire Puzzles"

[@kyleslentz1326]

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

[@TyphoidBryan]

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

[@marcelvdberg]

Amazing stuff!

[@NAT3s]

Love the logic puzzle content!

[@FLEBpuzzles]

Thanks!

[@ckester5742]

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

[@NAT3s]

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?

[@Kokkilisa]

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]

Maybe! We shall see...

[@katarzynaw4664]

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]

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]

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.

[@collectivelight]

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

[@zalibecquerel3463]

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]

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

[@zalibecquerel3463]

@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).

[@Robertlavigne1]

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

[@FLEBpuzzles]

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

[@PerMortensen]

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]

SquareCells is great!

[@manueldelalas]

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]

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

[@beetle82395]

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

[@emuwarrior13]

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

[@ChrisWEarly]

Happy puzzling 😊

[@FLEBpuzzles]

Happy puzzling to you as well!

[@drewskidmore9392]

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

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

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

[@FLEBpuzzles]

It is! Nice eye!

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

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

[@carpetlick5243]

How do you qualify for a Puzzle Championship?

[@eronth]

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

[@thechocolatefactory]

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]

Nice! I hope you enjoy them!

[@accipiterignitus5123]

Good Job :)

[@gcwrestling888]

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

[@FLEBpuzzles]

Thanks EJS88!

[@coolwolfpower8429]

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

[@LightningSe7en]

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

[@AngrySanta]

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

[@LightningSe7en]

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]

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

[@chelseapeterson35]

Battleship sudoku ??

[@FLEBpuzzles]

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

[@hmm-bw4pg]

What is you real name?

[@yakisobaguitarist]

It's like picross!

[@FLEBpuzzles]

It is like picross! Lots of similarities!

[@oldhippy1017]

Very interesting.

[@FLEBpuzzles]

Thanks!

[@jibster5903]

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]

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

[@Chaytup]

Is your daughter named flebette?

[@FLEBpuzzles]

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

[@danaondrackova3431]

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 :-)

[@garrythirtle]

This is one puzzle i actually solved without cheating 😜

[@Kelis-melissa]

Interesting!

[@ellismiles9109]

Doot doot

[@non-pe8xn]

Hope your daughter is doing well :)

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

looks easy

[@link464]

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]

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

[@FLEBpuzzles]

Zanzlanz is correct. Sorry for the late response!