I've been thinking for awhile about if it would be a good or bad thing to set up your own frogs. (ignoring the fact that there has to be a check in place to make sure frogs aren't setup on same spot)

After thinking about it for awhile, I don't think it would be good for the game.

Why do I think that? Well if I could setup my own frogs, I would probable mostly set them up close to each other - that is for example, put 4 frogs in one of the corners - making it impossible to even see the 4th frog hidden in the corner - leaving someone to either guess blindly - or wait until he checks all other squares on the board.

It could also become more predictable. For example, if I know another player always sets up their battleboat boards - I can learn things like how they normally setup boards. Do they never have any touching each other. Do they never have any touching the side. Do they ... etc.. etc... So if a person always set's up their own frogs, it would also become predictable.

So even though occasionally the random computer will set up my frogs in a "bad" way, after thinking about it - I think it is still best to have the computer randomly place the frogs rather then try to let the users do it themselves.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Have you seen a setup which would put 4 frogs touching 1 square? (that is to possible see a "4" on a square)? (or a 5 for that matter, even though that would be VERY rare.)