Educational Battleship

Each team places their fleet in secret on the board. To fire, the active team must answer a question correctly. If the answer is correct, they choose a square on the enemy board to attack. If they hit a ship, they attack again! If they miss, the turn passes. The winner is the first team to sink the entire opposing fleet.

Yes, it is completely free. You do not need to create an account, sign up, or install anything. Open the link in any browser and start playing in seconds. It is an online tool designed for teachers who want to use interactive activities without complications.

Yes. In settings choose 'My own questions', write each question with its answer, and during the game the teacher confirms whether the team answered correctly. You can use it to review any content: science, math, history, English, or whatever you are working on in class.

280+ questions spread across 11 topics: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, History, Language and Literature, Geography, General Culture, Art and Music, Sports, Technology, Human Body and Environment. You can also enable mix mode to blend all topics in one game.

Ideal for upper elementary (4th, 5th, 6th grade) and secondary school. The pre-designed topics work perfectly for those levels. Using custom questions you can adapt it to any level, from early childhood to adults, since the teacher always controls what questions are used and how difficult they are.

Yes. The game has a full-screen button for comfortable projection. The high-contrast design with large typography is built for students at the back of the room to read the questions and see the board from their seats.

Unlike Kahoot or Mentimeter, where everyone answers simultaneously from their own devices, Battleship is a team game to project on one device. It encourages group discussion, strategy and live competition between teams. Students do not need their own phone or tablet.

Each team has 4 ships: Aircraft Carrier (4 squares), Destroyer (3 squares), Submarine (3 squares) and Patrol Boat (2 squares). At the start of the game, each team places them on their board in secret — while the other team looks away — choosing horizontal or vertical orientation for each ship.

A game on the 8×8 board lasts between 20 and 30 minutes, ideal for a 40-minute class with time to set up and introduce the game. On the 10×10 board it can extend to 35–45 minutes. If time is short, the 8×8 is the best option.

Yes. The tool includes a 'Print boards' button that generates a template ready to print on letter-size paper. You can play the physical version in class without a projector or student devices: each team receives their sheet with two grids (one to place their fleet and one to record their shots) and the game instructions.

The printable template generates one page per team in landscape format. Each sheet includes: the team name, the 'My fleet' grid for placing ships in secret, the 'My attacks' grid for marking hits (✕) and misses (○), the fleet legend with the size of each ship, and a rules summary. If you loaded your own questions, it also prints a third page with cut-out question cards.

Yes, but only with custom questions. If in settings you choose 'My own questions' and load them, printing generates an extra page with cut-out cards: each card shows the question and its answer. Shuffle the deck, put it on the table, and the teacher or a student reads one card per turn before firing.

Educational Battleship falls primarily within Game-Based Learning and Purposeful Gamification, two approaches that use game mechanics to enhance real learning. It also aligns with Question-Based Learning, since game progress depends on teams answering correctly, and with Formative Assessment, because the teacher can identify in real time which content teams handle well and which needs reinforcement.

Beyond content review, the game works several key competencies: Collaboration (teams discuss the answer together), Decision-making (choosing where to attack with incomplete information), Logical reasoning (deducing the position of enemy ships), Frustration tolerance (managing lost turns and mistakes), and Metacognition (students become aware of what they know and don't know when facing each question).