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Ships ahoy--ten of them, in fact--and you have to find them! This solitaire version of the classic paper and pencil game consists of an "ocean," represented by a grid, in which a flotilla of vessels is concealed. Each fleet contains one battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers, and four submarines, and they may be oriented either horizontally or vertically, but never occupy adjacent squares. Most of the puzzles start you off by revealing the contents of a few squares, and digits alongside and below the grid indicate the number of squares in the corresponding rows and columns that contain ships. Fill in what you know in squares adjacent to ship segments, fill in water in rows and columns that have all the segments in place, and fill in segments in rows and columns that must have all their remaining empty spaces completed in order to equal the corresponding number. Go step-by-step through sample puzzles to learn strategies for eliminating possibilities and clueing into likely arrangements. Puzzles are ranked according to difficulty.Keep on working, and you'll be sure to sink that enemy fleet! 96 pages, 284 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.