Paper Boats

How to play

1. Pick who to play: a friend on the same device, or the bot.
2. Hide your boats: tap Shuffle until you like where they are, then tap Ready. Boats never touch each other.
3. Take turns tapping a square on the other player's page. A splash means nothing's there; an X means you hit a boat.
4. Hit every square of a boat to find it. The first player to find all four boats wins.
5. Playing a friend? The game asks you to pass the phone between turns, so nobody peeks at the other page.

Controls

• Tap or click a square on the big page to guess it.
• Your own page and boats are shown small underneath, with the other player's guesses on it.
• New round hides new boats. Mode switches between a friend and the bot.
• The Sound button turns sound on or off.

Tips

• Spread out your first guesses in a checkerboard pattern. Every boat is at least two squares long, so you'll still find them all.
• After a hit, try the squares next to it. After two hits in a line, keep going along that line.
• Boats never touch, so the squares all around a found boat are always empty. Don't waste guesses there.
• The Boats to find list shows which boats are left. If only the Big boat is left, look for gaps long enough to hold four squares.