The patented game board was different from that many of us grew up playing. While the claims include a perforated game board and pins insertable in the perforations, it suggested a number of different games: “The game herein illustrated as in progress might be called Battleships' which requires two players facing each other. “One player, making use preferably of some erasable marking means, such as chalk, places an enclosure or line around a number of arbitrarily chosen series of perforations in groups of 4 (representing a battleship), in groups of 3 (a cruiser). Play will go back and forth with each player calling out shots at the others' unseen targets and continues when one of the series of perforations within an enclosure has been filled with pins, that ‘ship’ is ‘sunk’.”
