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- 14 January
2006: Added two
Battleship variants from the 13th PQRST Puzzle Championship.
The new variants include:
- Square
Box: a variant of Squared Battleships where all ships are
squares but the composition of the fleet is not specified
- PQRST
Letters: Five ships shaped like the letters P, Q, R, S, and T
need to be placed on the board. Ships may be adjacent.
- 30 December
2005: Added lots
of new Battleship variants found on the Russian puzzle site, Diogen.
The new variants include:
- 16 December
2005: Added an Omnibus
entry about Constraint Programming and its relationship to
Battleship puzzles.
- 9 September
2005: Added analysis
of Fathom It!'s #190 puzzle (hard grading).
Created a new page entitled "How
to solve Battleship puzzles". This provides a quick
solving aid for Battleship lovers straight from the 'Net.
- 28 August
2005: Added a new
entry for the "Pentomino Camps" variant,
featured in the 2004 World Puzzle Championship.
Added a new entry for the "Hexagonal
Tetrominoes" variant, featured in the 2004 World Puzzle
Championship.
- 20 August
2005: Added analysis
of Fathom It!'s #7 puzzle (hard grading).
- 19 August
2005: Added analysis
of Fathom It!'s #9 puzzle (hard grading).
- 12 August
2005: Updated the "Rain
Clouds" entry, adding a reference to the Russian Diogen
puzzle site.
Added a new entry for Diogen's "Russian Battleship"
variant.
Added a new entry for Diogen's "Aiming
Battleships" variant.
Just sit back and enjoy Mountain
Vista Software's new RSS feed. You will be notified whenever
a new Battleship variant, article, puzzle solution, and more are added
to the site.
- 28 January
2005:
Added link to Merlijn Sevenster's interesting article in the
September 2004 issue of ICGA
Journal entitled "Battleships as Decision Problem".
- 26 January
2005: Added Unknown
Battleships variant to omnibus, featured in
the 12th PQRST Puzzle Championship.
- 14 January
2005: Added new
variations: Tent
Pairs, Chess Battleships,
Rhombus
Battleships.
Added text to existing Tents variant.
- 9 November
2004: Added new
variation from the 11th PQRST Championship: Moving Battleships
(without tallies).
- 10 October
2004: Added new
variation by Andrei Bogdanov of Russian "Diogen" puzzle club: Japanese
Battleships.
- 9 October
2004: Added an analysis
of a World of Puzzles Battleship puzzle from (July?) 1994. The analysis is from a newsgroup
posting by Mark Brader.
- 15 September
2004: Added new
variation: Sea
Battle.
- 11 September
2004: Added new
variation: Numbers
by Numbers,
Arithmetic Battleships.
- 10 September
2004: Added
complete analyses and solutions of Digital
Battleships
and Squared Battleships puzzles.
Added link to Ian Stewart's enlightening
article
explaining the connection between Minesweeper and the "P=NP?" question.
Added review of Yoogi Logic Software's
Hexip, a
Fathom It! look-alike for Hexagonal Battleships.
Added new variations:
Product
Battleships,
Task Search, Height Battleships, and Optimum Battleships.
- 19 March 2004: Put the entire Fathom It! help file on-line.
- 31 October
2003: Added Dave
Tuller's
Wraparound Battleships variant to omnibus.
Added Takahiko
Saito's Two-Story Battleships and Crowded Black-and-White
Battleships variants to omnibus.
- 9 August 2003: Added Bigrid Battleships variant to
omnibus, featured
in the 6th PQRST Puzzle Championship.
- 27 June
2003: Added Fathom It! quote from Kit Woolsey, one of the world's foremost
backgammon experts.
Omnibus page: Added link to Battleships puzzle description on Everything2.net.
- 3 June 2003: Added link from Web Sites page to Michael Rios and Dave Tuller's book
"Mensa Math & Logic Puzzles"
- 12 April
2003: Added Moving Battleships and Six Packs variants, both from the recent 11th
World Puzzles Championship.
- 1 December
2002: Added Erich
Friedman's Square Puzzles and PQRST 02's Thermometer Battleships descriptions to the variants page.
- 20 October
2002: Added the "Level Battleships" puzzle description to the variants page.
- 14
September 2002:
Added the "Magnets" Battleship-like puzzle to the variants page.
- 23 August
2002: Added a quote from Brendan Emmett Quigley about
Battleships puzzles in GAMES Magazine.
- 2 August
2002: Corrected
broken links to www.puzzler.ne.jp, added information on recent issues of
GAMES and World of Puzzles that carried
Battleships puzzles
(standard and variants)
- 27 June 2002: Added "T It Up" and Path Battleships variants to the variants page. Also added a new entry and link from
the Battleships Omnibus page to the 2002 US/Canada/Finland Team Qualifying
Test.
- 15 March
2002: Fathom It!
version 1.2 released. Minor bug fixes, including Windows XP issues.
- 3 November
2001: Added Tim Peeters's Alphabet Battleships variation to
the variations page.
- Lots added,
just not recorded here ...
- 3 July 2000: Added lots of information about
exciting Battleships
variations.
Created a new page entitled "Battleships
Omnibus",
which will collect and organize all known Web pages related to Fathom
It! and Battleships puzzles.
- Added
instructions to FAQ page to disable
the initial splash screen.
- November
1999: Author
becomes the contributing editor of the "Battleships" column in "GAMES"
and "World of Puzzles" Magazines.
- 7 May 1999: Added complete analysis of 7x7 intermediate board #176.
Fathom It! featured in CSPLib
(a problem library for constraints).
- 11 January
1999: Check out
the complete analysis of 7x7
intermediate board #2462.
- 23 November
1998: New board with incomplete row and
column tallies, with full analysis!
- 3 November
1998: Updated FAQ
page, website page, and more.
- 12 October
1998: Author page now has link to picture of author (yup, the author really exists :-).
- 18
September 1998: FAQ page explains how to modify the colors used
by Fathom It!
- 11
September 1998:
Added link to Gordon
and Shenk's new book.
- 11
September 1998:
Added link to WebFoot
Games
Web site.
- 26 July 1998: Added 7x7 board analyses.
- 12 July 1998: Added question of board uniqueness in
solutions
to FAQ page.
- 27 June 1998: Added page "What are people saying about Fathom
It! ?"
- 26 June 1998: Analysis of board with incomplete row and
column tallies!
- 9 June 1998: Updated "Web Sites of Interest" with many great sites to visit!
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