The Vegas Battleship Dice Machine, Explained

If you've seen a Las Vegas video of someone sinking ships with two dice in a tube, that's Destroyer: Naval Strike, a new machine from Interblock. Players call it "the Battleship game" or "the bubble dice Battleship game". Here's how it works, what it pays, what it really costs, and where to play it free.

What it is

Destroyer: Naval Strike is an arcade-style casino game from Interblock, the company behind the Roll to Win craps tables, in a line it calls AMUSE. It arrived on the Las Vegas floor in 2026: Circa held the launch in May, and it has been seen since at the Plaza, Downtown Grand and the Cosmopolitan, with more casinos to follow. It is not Hasbro's Battleship and carries no Battleship branding; the name is the players'.

Each station has its own clear acrylic tube with two dice in it: a red die lettered A to F and a white die numbered 1 to 6. On the screen is a 6×6 sea. The letter is the row and the number is the column, so a roll of C and 4 is the square C4.

How a battle goes

1. Place four ships on the sea: one of two squares, two of three, one of four. Anywhere you like, horizontal or vertical, not overlapping.
2. Bet. The bet is spent, like a slot machine's. Four missiles go on the rack.
3. Fire. Each missile is one roll of the two dice. Press the button once per missile, or Rapid Fire to empty the rack.
4. A hit on a fresh ship square marks it and earns a free missile. Open water, or a square already rolled, is a miss and the missile is spent.
5. Out of missiles? Buy another at the price on the screen, or take what you've won. The battle also ends when the whole fleet is sunk.

What it pays

Pays are multiples of the bet, and the bet itself is spent: "pays 3" means $5 becomes $15. On each ship the higher line replaces the lower.

On top, a bonus for the ships sunk in one battle: two ships +51×, three +251×, all four +501×. Sink everything and the battle pays 564× the bet. On the machine's screen that reads as "two ships sunk $5,100, three ships sunk $25,100, all four ships sunk $50,100" at a $100 bet.

The real odds

The pay table was worked out from the videos by posters on the Wizard of Vegas forum and then confirmed on the casino floor by the Wizard of Odds himself. The board is small enough to count exactly, and we did: with four missiles the machine returns 94.40% of the bet, a house edge of 5.60%, about the same as a decent slot. How a battle usually ends:

The first missile hits one time in three. A battle averages about 5.75 missiles, because hits keep it going.

Why the extra missiles cost what they do

This is the part the videos never explain. When the rack is empty, the machine offers one more missile at a price that changes with the board. The price is not arbitrary: it is about 1.136 times what the missile is worth, counting the free missiles a hit would chain. So every bought missile gives back about 88 cents on the dollar, a 12% house edge, whatever the board looks like.

An untouched board sells its fifth missile for about 12 cents per dollar bet. With the 4-ship one hit from sinking, the next missile could land 40× and open the fleet bonus, so it costs over a bet and a half. With three ships down and the last one a hit short, it costs around nine bets. Buying is never a good deal in expectation. It is a way to see the battle out, and the players in the videos who keep buying missile after missile are paying 12% a time for the privilege.

Does it matter where you put the ships?

No. Every roll picks one of the 36 squares with exactly the same chance, and a square already rolled is a miss, so only which squares hold ships matters, and twelve squares are twelve squares wherever they sit. Corners, the middle, bunched or spread: identical odds to the last decimal. Arranging the fleet is the fun, like a craps shooter setting the dice.

Play it free

Fleet Strike is our free version, built for a phone held upright: the same 6×6 sea, the same red and white dice tumbling in a tube, the same pay table and the same missile pricing, with play money and nothing to sign up for. The odds are the machine's, checked over ten million battles.

Questions

Is it the Battleship game from YouTube and TikTok?

Yes. The Vegas channels that film new machines have been playing Destroyer: Naval Strike since it arrived in 2026, and that is the game Fleet Strike is modelled on. The creators play the real cabinet, not our version.

Where can I play the real machine?

In Las Vegas at Circa, the Plaza, Downtown Grand and the Cosmopolitan as of 2026, with more installations rolling out across North America. There is no official online version.

What is the house edge?

5.60% on the bet, and 12% on every extra missile you buy.

What is the biggest win?

Sinking all four ships: 564 times the bet. At the machine's $100 maximum that is $56,400; it happens about once in 37 million battles.

Is Fleet Strike real money?

No. Play money only, with nothing to buy and nothing to win. It's for fun and for learning the game.

More free games

• Fleet Strike: the bubble dice Battleship game, four ships, two dice, free missiles for hits.
• Bubble Craps: the dice-in-a-bubble craps machine, regular or crapless.
• Roulette: Las Vegas American roulette with 0 and 00.
• All Mini Velvet games

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