Tonight, we brought out Victory at Sea, which is a generic Battleship game. In hindsight, I should have sprung for Battleship, because this was the travel version of the game, and it was poorly designed. The grid numbers were the same color as the background and difficult to read, the pegs were in a container that should have snapped open but didn’t, and the ships were difficult to get out of their case. However, a Sharpie fixed the grid issue, and the rest we can work around. But that’s not why I’m posting!
We showed her how to play it. “A hit!” we’d say, and put in a red peg, or “a miss!” and put in a white, explaining how we came to this conclusion. Steve helped her. They teamed up against me. We played until one ship was sunk, because she likes to take these things in small doses.
Then she wanted to play with the board on her own. After a few minutes, she came in to ask me what it was called when you put in a red peg. “A hit,” I replied, and she padded back. Curious, I went to see what she was up to. She was playing that the red pegs were boys and the white were girls.
What I found funny? The white pegs were girls for a reason. They were “misses.” Hee! Clever little monkey.
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