Battleship

Battleship is a recurring Survivor challenge. It appeared in Survivor: Alabasta, Survivor: Dressrosa, and Survivor: Tottoland. It is infamous for being very time-consuming, especially in Tottoland.

Rules
The game is played identically to the board game, where the opposing sides place down five ships of varying sizes onto a grid. They must then shoot at one spot on the other team's grid. If the shot hits one of the other team's ships, they must say Hit, if it does not, they must say Miss. Each ship takes up a certain number of spots on the grid, and if all of the spots constituting a ship are hit, the ship is Sunk. The side that manages to sink all of the other side's ships before the other side sinks all of their ships wins the game.

History
The game first appeared as the first reward challenge in Survivor: Alabasta. It pitted the Erumalu Tribe against the Yuba Tribe, and lasted for almost four hours. Eventually, Yuba emerged victorious.

The game returned in Survivor: Dressrosa as the eighth reward challenge, where it was called Gaining their Trust. Diamante Tribe and Trebol Tribe competed against each other, with each tribe managing a single grid and communicating among themselves about what to do. A twist in the game was that rather than battleships, the tribes were shooting at huts. After a two-hour game, Diamante Tribe won.

The next appearance of this game was in Survivor: Tottoland, where it was the second immunity challenge, called Whipped Ships. In this version, the pairs faced each other in a tournament-style competition, where the winners would move on to the next round. The three pairs that made it to the third and final round won immunity, and the winner of the three-way final battle between them would get first place and become a trio. The Human Females, Human Males, and Half-Fishmen made it to the final round, with the Human Females eventually emerging victorious. This challenge became extremely notorious due to taking two days to complete, with battles as long as 23 hours. It became the poster child for Tottoland 's multiple time-consuming competitions, and was frequently used as a memetic threat.