Vanilla Battleship Game | Dataford Interview Questions

Design a Battleship game with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

Implement an interactive board that supports ship placement, alternating turns, hit and miss feedback, sunk-ship detection, and a clear win state without frameworks. For grading the game logic, use play_battleship(board, shots), where board is a list of equal-length strings, . represents water, and identical non-. characters identify cells belonging to the same ship; shots is a list of [row, column] coordinates. Return { "events": [...], "won": boolean }, where each event is miss, hit, sunk, or repeat.

Constraints

1 <= number of rows <= 10
1 <= number of columns <= 10
Every board row has the same length
. represents water; each other character identifies a ship
Every shot coordinate is inside the board
The board contains at least one ship
A ship may occupy one or more cells

Function Signature

def play_battleship(board, shots):

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Problem

Design a Battleship game with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

Constraints

1 <= number of rows <= 10
1 <= number of columns <= 10
Every board row has the same length
. represents water; each other character identifies a ship
Every shot coordinate is inside the board
The board contains at least one ship
A ship may occupy one or more cells

Function Signature

def play_battleship(board, shots):

Your question is Vanilla Battleship Game. Start with the requirements in the Question tab.

Run and submit as often as you like. When you're ready, talk me through your approach or go straight to the code.