Unbelievable "Battleship" Coincidence!

During the course of my life, I must've played hundreds of games of the board game "Battleship" -- first with my siblings as a child and now with my own children as a parent. In all of those times, I have *never* had this happen to me!

Last night, I played a game with my 9-year-old daughter, and I knew about mid-way through that something freaky was going on (yes, it was a full moon!). We confirmed it when the game ended and had to document it with this photo:


In case you can't see the coincidence, here's the breakdown:

Battleship: columns identical, rows identical
Carrier: columns identical, rows off by 1
Destroyer: columns identical, rows off by 1
Submarine: columns identical, rows off by 3
PT Boat: columns off by 1, rows off by 1, rotation inverted

I'm absolutely certain that we'll never get closer to independently setting up identical boards!