--- title: "Fleet Hunt with the fleet printed: free printable with answers" description: "Free printable battleship puzzles that print the fleet under every grid, so you always know what you are looking for." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/with-fleet-key" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt) 3. With a fleet key Free printable # With a fleet key Fleet Hunt Every puzzle here prints the fleet under the grid: one silhouette per ship, grouped by size. That is not decoration. Which ships are left to find is half the deduction, and a board that does not tell you the fleet is not a harder puzzle, it is an unanswerable one. PuzzleDesign Difficulty A bigger fleet in a bigger sea is harder, and harder grades reveal less of it. Every puzzle hides exactly one fleet. 10×10 sea, 10 ships. Ships never touch, and the numbers count the ship squares in each row and column. The fleet to find is printed under the grid. Theme ClassicBoldSoftShadedNavyIndigoSkyTealEmeraldForestPlumBerryCrimsonEmberAmberCocoa **Customise colours** Numbers Cell lines Box lines Page background Style StandardClean Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the grid. Generate puzzlePrint / save PDF Two pages: the puzzle and its answer. Every puzzle is proved to have exactly one answer by the same engine as our KDP studio. ## Want the whole book? This makes one puzzle. Sign up to turn it into a full Fleet Hunt book for Amazon KDP: hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as print-ready PDFs. [Build the full book](https://app.oncebooks.com/publisher-studio/fleet-hunt/edit?from=fleet-hunt&v=2&s=eyJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiSEFSRCIsImNvbG9yVGhlbWUiOnsidGhlbWVJZCI6ImNsYXNzaWMiLCJvdmVycmlkZXMiOnt9fX0) Free to build · pay once to export Preview The puzzle and its answer, as they print. Hide the preview - Fleet Hunt Hard 1 Puzzle - Fleet Hunt Hard · Solution 2 Solution Generate puzzlePrint / save PDF ## How to solve a fleet hunt A whole fleet is hidden in the sea. Ships never touch, not even at a corner, the numbers beside each row and column count the ship cells in that line, and a few squares are revealed to start you off. ### The method 1. Cross out the zeros, then fill the full lines. A row or column numbered 0 is all water. A line whose number equals the squares it has left is all ship. Both are free information and both usually settle a corner of the board straight away. 2. Work outward from every revealed square. A revealed square tells you more about its neighbours than about itself. The four diagonals of any ship square are always water, because a ship runs straight and no two ships touch. A round end points at open water on its curved side and at the rest of its ship on the flat one. A single is surrounded by water on all eight sides. 3. Place the biggest ship first. The longest ship has the fewest places it can possibly go, and every square it takes puts a ring of water around it that the smaller ships cannot use. Work down the fleet by size and cross each ship off as you find it. 4. Check a line can still reach its number. If a row still wants three ship squares but only two are left that any ship could use, something earlier is wrong. That check catches a mistake several moves before the board visibly contradicts itself. **The one rule people get wrong** Ships never touch, and that includes corner to corner. A square diagonally next to a ship is always water, which is the single most useful fact on the board. **What the answer page shows** The whole fleet, drawn in place on the same grid. **How the grades differ** A bigger fleet in a bigger sea, with less of it revealed. The numbers alone almost never pin a fleet, so the revealed squares are what make the puzzle solvable, and the harder grades give you fewer. **Good for** Anyone who likes working from a few fixed points outward. ## Making a whole Fleet Hunt book? This page makes one puzzle. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the [KDP Fleet Hunt maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-fleet-hunt-maker) generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and solutions PDF. ## More printable battleship puzzles - [Fleet Hunt for beginners](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/for-beginners) - [Large print Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/large-print) - [Easy Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/easy) - [Medium Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/medium) - [Fleet Hunt with the standard fleet](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/standard-fleet) - [Hard Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt/hard) [See every printable Fleet Hunt](https://www.oncebooks.com/fleet-hunt) ## Questions **Are these fleet hunt with the fleet printed free to print?** Yes. Generate the puzzle above and print it with its answer, at no cost and with no sign-up. **Does every puzzle have one solution?** Yes. The numbers alone almost never pin a fleet, so the revealed squares are what close the gap, and every board is checked to hide exactly one fleet before it prints. The answer is on the second page. **Can I make a Fleet Hunt book to sell on KDP?** Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. The KDP Fleet Hunt maker generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and solutions PDF.