Ricochet: Le Profil de l’Homme Sans Visage

About this board game

Ricochet: Le Profil de l’Homme Sans Visage is a solo or cooperative riddle game for 1–10 players, with sessions designed to take about 10 minutes.

Across 30 linked riddles, players follow a crazy secret-agent story. Each riddle asks you to find the final sentence missing from a dialogue, using association of ideas and a grid of words.

The central puzzle begins with a grid containing 25 words. For each riddle, you must hide 20 to 22 of them, leaving a smaller group visible. The remaining words then provide the clues needed to uncover the answer.

• 30 riddles connected by a secret-agent story
• Solo or cooperative play for 1–10 players
• Word grids that lead to a spoken rebus

Once the correct words remain, read them in the right order and say them out loud. Together, their sounds form a hearing rebus: an auditory wordplay clue that gives the missing sentence from the dialogue.

Ricochet: Le Profil de l’Homme Sans Visage combines short-form deduction with creative language connections. Rather than simply reading a clue and selecting an answer, players manipulate the word grid, identify the relevant terms, and listen to the resulting phrase as it comes together.

With its compact play time, this 2021 game offers a focused puzzle experience for one player or a group working cooperatively. Solve the riddles, follow the unusual story, and reconstruct each secret-agent exchange one missing sentence at a time.