Can't expect users on the shitpost community to understand statistics.

How so? Am I wrong?

If you had a ship on every possible space, they would have a 100% chance of landing a hit, so by your logic this would be worse.

Yeah, because the challenge in Battleship is primarily the locating of the battleships. Having a 100% chance of being hit would indeed be bad.

The grid is 10x10, so 100 spaces. Placed legally, your five ships take up 17 spaces. That means if your opponent picks a space at random, there is a 17% chance they will get a hit.

It you cheat like this, your five ships only take up 5 spaces. That means if your opponent picks a space at random, there is a 5% chance they will get a hit.

So, purely based on chance, this increases the odds of your opponent not beating you. You just have to make sure to also be on the offensive and sink all their battleships quickly, because if they happen to hit your battlestack just once, that means they are going to sink it all within the next 4-7 turns.

Most iterations of the game assume you cannot place ships right next to each other.

I have never heard that rule. I cannot see that anywhere, even as a variation

• https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-ca/instruction/battleship-game
• https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Battleship
• https://officialgamerules.org/game-rules/battleship/
• https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/the-basic-rules-of-battleship-411069

I am not seeing it. In this community?

EDIT: Oh, it's a user I have blocked. No wonder I didn't see that before posting this.

No, I asked. Its illegal