Battleship (game) Battleship (game) Battleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle) is a guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each players fleet of ships (including battleships) are marked. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player. Players alternate turns calling "shots" at the other player's ships, and the objective of the game is to destroy the opposing player's fleet. "Battleship" is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was
Mark Winkler short story, "Ink", was awarded third prize in the 2016 Short Story Day Africa competition and was published in the anthology Water. Winkler is a member of PEN South Africa. Mark Winkler Mark Winkler (born 29 January 1966) is a South African writer of literary fiction living in Cape Town. He is the author of two novels, "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything" (2013) and "Wasted" (2015). His third novel, "The Safest Place You Know", is due to be published in September 2016. Winkler was born in Johannesburg in 1966. He grew up in what is now Mpumalanga and