Ricochons: Quand Satan brouille l'écoute
Ricochons: Quand Satan brouille l'écoute Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 15 boards (each side presenting one puzzle)
- 20 numbered pebbles (galets)
- 2 white pebbles
Starting a Puzzle
Take puzzle no. 1 out of the box and follow the procedure of the demonstration grid shown in the rulebook (different from the one you hold in your hands):
- First read the instructions, specific to the puzzle.
- Then read the help, if any.
- Read the dialogue. The last sentence of the dialogue has disappeared! Your mission: find the last sentence of the dialogue!
- Prepare your pebbles so you can play them in the indicated order. Sometimes certain pebbles are not played. In that case, the instructions say so.
To find the last sentence of the dialogue, look closely at the indications given to you to start:
- Example: "Rébus de 3 mots. Départ : Métier - Paris" (Rebus of 3 words. Start: Job - Paris).
- You are looking here for a rebus made of 3 words! Some puzzles offer rebuses of 4, 5 or even 6 words.
- Two starting words are given to start your ricochets! Sometimes a puzzle offers another start (a single word, a question, etc.).
With all this information, then look at the 25 words offered. To find the final rebus, you must hide 22 words using your pebbles. There will then remain 3 visible words. Reading these words ALOUD, IN THE RIGHT ORDER, creates an AUDITORY rebus that will give you the last sentence of the dialogue!
How to Ricochet
To hide the words, you must make ricochets, that is, go from one word to another by association of ideas.
Each of the starting words must make you think of a word in the grid. In the example, "Métier" (Job) must make you think of one word, and "Paris" of another word. The links between the words are strong and obvious: synonym, opposite, compound word, category, component, expression of everyday or literary language, title of a work (book, song, film...), etc. (Conjugation and plurals can also help you from time to time.)
The only rule to respect to validate the choice of your ricochets: the two words considered MUST BE ALIGNED (same row or same column)!
When you think you have found them, place the two pebbles above each word.
Example:
- "Métier" makes you think of "Cuisinier" (Cook). "Paris" makes you think of "France". The hypothesis is possible because the two words are in the same column.
Next, each of the words no. 1 must make you think of another word. The two new words no. 2 must also be aligned.
Example:
- "Cuisinier" makes you think of "Restaurant". "France" makes you think of "Europe".
When you have placed the pebbles no. 2, you can then lower the pebbles no. 1 to mask the words.
Then, the two words no. 2 must make you think of two new aligned words that you will mark with your pebbles no. 3, and so on until the white pebbles!
The White Pebbles
The white pebbles are the last pebbles of the path. Their words (or sometimes only one) give you a CLUE (context, rebus, comment...) to solve the final auditory rebus.
If you have a doubt about a word, use the side of the pebble with a question mark to signal a hypothesis.
End of a Puzzle
When you have filled the whole grid with pebbles, some words remain uncovered. In the example:
- The two white pebbles indicate the words "Avant" - "Jouer" (Before - Play). That is the clue to solve the final rebus.
- The three remaining words are: "Aigle" - "Lard" - "Lire".
- Read aloud in the right order: "Lire Lard Aigle" = "Lire la règle !" (Read the rules!)
If the rebus gives a sentence, related to the clue, that makes sense with the dialogue, then congratulations, you have solved the puzzle! You can therefore move on to the next one (on the back, then on the next board) and continue the story.
Conversely, if you find no meaning, you will have to go back (to your question marks) or start again from the beginning.
Finally, if your patience is put to too harsh a test, if a fit of nerves lies in wait for you, if the game is about to go out the window... you can consult the solutions.
The Solutions
We decided to trust you to solve the puzzles. The solutions are therefore not in this box but only on the website: www.flipflapeditions.fr
On the page of the game Ricochet and the relevant adventure, you will find the answers to each puzzle, pebble by pebble. By clicking on the number of the desired puzzle, the answers appear in two columns.
Once you have found your error, you can finish the puzzle by yourself.
In all cases, the final rebus is never given in the answers so that you have the pleasure of solving it thanks to the clues. If you still do not find it, you have the option of calling a friend! To do so, send a message to [email protected] (stating the name of the adventure, the number of the puzzle and the words that remain).
Tips
- Check all the words of the grid carefully before making your choices, to gauge all possible hypotheses.
- There are no puns or rebuses during the path (unless the instructions tell you so), only for the white pebbles and the final rebus.
- Read the final rebuses and the clues aloud.
- The difficulty of the grids increases with the use of symbolic links, cultural references, tricks, etc., but the links between the words are always strong and obvious.
- Do not hesitate to use a search engine, typing the two words you are wondering about to see whether a link reveals itself (the website www.cnl.fr can also be useful to you).
- You can time yourself and note the time spent on each solution. When you redo the puzzles in a few months, you can compare!
- For our French-speaking friends (Benelux, Quebec...): in the answers, words coming from references or expressions that are very (too) French are marked with an asterisk (*).