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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.
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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.
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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"
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12 April 2003: Added Moving Battleships and Six Packs variants, both from the recent 11th World Puzzles Championship.
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1 December 2002: Added Erich Friedman's Square Puzzles and PQRST 02's Thermometer Battleships descriptions to the variants page.
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20 October 2002: Added the "Level Battleships" puzzle description to the variants page.
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14 September 2002: Added the "Magnets" Battleship-like puzzle to the variants page.
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23 August 2002: Added a quote from Brendan Emmett Quigley about Battleships puzzles in GAMES Magazine.
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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.
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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.
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Lots added, just not recorded here ...
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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.
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Added instructions to FAQ page to disable the initial splash screen.
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November 1999: Author becomes the contributing editor of the "Battleships" column in "GAMES" and "World of Puzzles" Magazines.
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7 May 1999: Added complete analysis of 7x7 intermediate board #176.
Fathom It! featured in CSPLib (a problem library for constraints).
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11 January 1999: Check out the complete analysis of 7x7 intermediate board #2462.
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23 November 1998: New board with incomplete row and column tallies, with full analysis!
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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 :-).
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18 September 1998: FAQ page explains how to modify the colors used by Fathom It!
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11 September 1998: Added link to Gordon and Shenk's new book.
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11 September 1998: Added link to WebFoot Games Web site.
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26 July 1998: Added 7x7 board analyses.
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12 July 1998: Added question of board uniqueness in solutions to FAQ page.
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27 June 1998: Added page "What are people saying about Fathom It! ?"
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26 June 1998: Analysis of board with incomplete row and column tallies!
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9 June 1998: Updated "Web Sites of Interest" with many great sites to visit!
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