Battleships

Battleships also known as Bimaru is a logic puzzle with simple rules and challenging solutions.

The rules of Battleships are simple:
You have to find the location of the battleships hidden in the grid. Some battleships may be partially revealed.
A battleship is a straight line of consecutive black cells.
The number of the battleships from each size is shown in the legend below the grid.
2 battleships cannot touch each other (even diagonally)
The numbers outside the grid show the number of cells occupied by battleships on that row/column.

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1.	Piroska9	00:03.53
2.	beatrixwashere	00:03.68
3.	Puzzleist	00:04.17
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5.	Truth-or-Peace	00:05.59
6.	exformation	00:06.20
7.	Zemmel	00:06.42
8.	OCMEROS	00:06.70
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10.	Muskul23	00:06.94
11.	Alyname	00:07.20
12.	May John	00:07.31
13.	llmt9	00:07.48
14.	pouldu	00:07.69
15.	thrasymachus	00:07.80
16.	SlugBugBlue	00:07.87
17.	nonograms01	00:08.20
18.	alxp1	00:08.58
19.	whitevoidsky	00:08.84
20.	JernauGurgeh	00:08.92

This Week
1.	Piroska9	00:03.53
2.	Puzzleist	00:04.39
3.	willy86ylliw	00:05.79
4.	OCMEROS	00:06.70
5.	kennethaw88	00:06.78
6.	Muskul23	00:06.94
7.	whitevoidsky	00:08.84
8.	JernauGurgeh	00:08.92
9.	SlugBugBlue	00:09.65
10.	ks360	00:10.87
11.	PDX2021	00:10.93
12.	nonograms01	00:11.65
13.	llmt9	00:11.88
14.	Kailo	00:12.70
15.	DumbKojiShimizu	00:12.78
16.	HackMan	00:13.70
17.	jacek66	00:13.82
18.	j1y2y3	00:14.30
19.	hexe222	00:14.51
20.	RisottoGroupon	00:15.87

Today
1.	Piroska9	00:04.04
2.	Puzzleist	00:04.39
3.	JernauGurgeh	00:10.65
4.	PDX2021	00:10.93
5.	HackMan	00:13.70
6.	DumbKojiShimizu	00:15.84
7.	YairCap	00:16.60
8.	chube	00:17.57
9.	dkmvn	00:17.74
10.	chrispy	00:18.95
11.	grimgrin	00:20.33
12.	CaptainBen	00:20.72
13.	celiajoy	00:31.96
14.	KylieBindiRosRo	00:33.07
15.	Peter	24d 20:31:23.64
16.	--- empty ---	--:--
17.	--- empty ---	--:--
18.	--- empty ---	--:--
19.	--- empty ---	--:--
20.	--- empty ---	--:--

MO3
1.	numbrr	00:02.58
2.	mtanzer	00:02.62
3.	vowels	00:02.76
4.	BingBongBob	00:03.04
5.	nabi	00:03.46
6.	jaybrainer	00:03.70
7.	Arok	00:03.93
8.	Ben65732	00:04.02
9.	Piroska9	00:04.11
10.	boru	00:04.18

AO5
1.	mtanzer	00:02.74
2.	vowels	00:02.76
3.	numbrr	00:02.83
4.	BingBongBob	00:03.16
5.	jaybrainer	00:03.85
6.	nabi	00:03.89
7.	Arok	00:03.99
8.	Ben65732	00:04.19
9.	Piroska9	00:04.48
10.	boru	00:04.64

AO12
1.	mtanzer	00:03.28
2.	numbrr	00:03.40
3.	BingBongBob	00:03.48
4.	vowels	00:03.62
5.	nabi	00:04.40
6.	Ben65732	00:04.76
7.	jaybrainer	00:04.96
8.	Arok	00:05.49
9.	Piroska9	00:05.52
10.	boru	00:05.53

Robots / programmatic solvers		info
1.	tlstyer	00:00.006
2.	browserEx	00:00.496
3.	Paul Bismuth	00:01.211

* MO3 - Mean of 3. The average of 3 consecutive times.
AO5 - Average of 5. The average of 5 consecutive times ignoring the highest and the lowest.
AO12 - Average of 12. The average of 12 consecutive times ignoring the highest and the lowest.
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