# Ricochet: Battle of Wits — Smarter Than Your Friends? > Smarter Than Your Friends? (iPhone/iPad app by David Hendranata.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ricochet-battle-of-wits/id6761350538 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [David Hendranata](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883620125) - Category: Games, Education, Trivia, Word - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 63 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2026-04-09 - Data updated: 2026-06-22 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ricochet-battle-of-wits/id6761350538/reviews.md ## What is Ricochet? Three modes. One chess clock. Two players. One survivor. Ricochet is a competitive real-time brain-fighting game where your vocabulary, arithmetic, and word-scrambling reflexes get weaponized against another human's. Every second you earn is a second you steal. Every right answer is damage on their clock. The game roasts you when you lose and cheers when you land an ultra. WORDS — Chain words: each one starts with the last letter of the previous. Drop a long one and slam seconds off your opponent's clock. Drop a short one and watch yours drain. MATHS — Solve problems where every answer feeds the next. Same pressure, same clock. Are you faster than a primary school kid? Honestly — are you sure? ANAGRAM — Share a 7-letter tile pool. Form the longest word you can. Use all 7 tiles for a pangram and slam 12 seconds off your opponent in one hit. Pool refreshes every round. Think fast. PICK YOUR FIGHTER Six playable characters, each with their own ability — all free, all the time. Freeze their attacks. Extend your clock. Punish their short words. Start with extra HP. Crush streak curves earlier. Choose your weapon. CAN YOU BEAT VOID? Three bots per mode. Pip is chill. Rune runs hot. Void plays like he owes someone money — steals extra time on every correct answer, never takes it easy. Most people never beat Void at all. If you do, you earned it. FIGHT YOUR FRIENDS Share a code, tap a deep link, or add a friend and hit FIGHT. Full real-time 1v1 with your actual human friends, not random strangers. Find out who's actually good and who's been faking it. DAILY OBJECTIVES A fresh challenge every UTC midnight — beat Rune, beat Void, land a 15-letter killing blow, score a pangram kill, expert-mode maths win. Complete it, claim 50 sparks. LOSE WITH STYLE Every defeat comes with a grade — S, A, B, C, D, or F — and a personal roast. Score an F and you'll hear things like "I have seen more impressive wordplay from a parrot with a head cold" or "A monkey pressing random buttons would have scored higher. Statistically proven." You've been warned. HONEST COSMETICS Want to customize? Earn Sparks by playing, or buy packs if you want. Every pack matches a shop price exactly — no bundles, no bonus multipliers, no psychological tricks: • 500 Sparks — $1.49 (= 1 Emote) • 1,500 Sparks — $2.99 (= 1 Arena) • 3,000 Sparks — $5.99 (= 1 Character Skin) NO ADS. NO TIMERS. NO TRICKS. Open the app, play, close the app. That's it. No banners, no interstitials, no rewarded videos, no "watch to continue," no stamina system, no season pass. Ricochet is a love project, not a money grab — built by one person who got sick of the alternative. Terms of Use: https://trumple.party/terms Privacy Policy: https://trumple.party/privacy Support: https://trumple.party/support ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 1,500 Sparks | $1.99 | one-time | | Premium | $3.99 | one-time | | 500 Sparks | $0.99 | one-time | | 3,000 Sparks | $3.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.2.4 — 2026-04-23 ANIMATION POLISH Fighters now have dedicated ULTRA attack animations that fire on 15+ letter words and Anagram pangrams — every character gets their signature finisher (Blaze supernova, Fria absolute-zero nova, Ash thousand-cut katana, Void void-collapse, and more). Idle loops across the roster have been tightened so nobody's arms flap or mouths drift mid-breath. The hit_ultra SFX is now reserved exclusively for 15+/pangram landings. ### 2.2.2 — 2026-04-18 BATTLE FEELS SHARPER PERFORMANCE We rebuilt the menu and the battle screen. Chess clock no longer stutters, sprite animations run smoother, the app launches faster, and the active-games list on the home screen only renders what you can see. If the app felt a bit heavy on your phone — it should feel lighter now. MODE LINEUP Geography and History are taking a short break while we give their question banks a deep clean. We found some questions that weren't up to our standard, and we're not going to ship a mode that asks you a wrong question. They'll be back soon, better than they were. In the meantime, Words, Maths, and Anagram are all sharper than ever. UNDER THE HOOD - Play Again no longer triggers double-speed battle idle for a split second - Background music no longer goes silent after a rapid mode-switch spam - Friend list no longer flickers when a friend's profile updates ### 2.2.1 — 2026-04-17 HISTORY MODE — DEEPER, SHARPER, WIDER 26,000+ curated entities (up from 21,000). Warring States, Three Kingdoms, Meiji era, Mesopotamia, Maya, Sumer, Indus Valley — the gaps are filled. Three new question shapes: "Which is the oldest?", "Which existed in Asia?", and "Who colonised this?". 41 templates total. FRIENDS - Your friend code now appears on the Friends screen — share it so people can add you - INVITE button actually sends a push notification now (previously it just copied to clipboard) UNDER THE HOOD - Challenge invite push notifications fully wired across all paths ### 2.2.0 — 2026-04-16 RICOCHET 2.2 — A FIFTH MODE. A SMARTER CLOCK. AND A BOT THAT STOPPED PRETENDING. NEW MODE: HISTORY HP-based combat across the entire span of human history. Pick a difficulty, get a multiple-choice question, deal damage on correct, hurt yourself on wrong. From ancient dynasties to last-century revolutions — wars, treaties, leaders, events. 80,000+ unique questions across 21,000 hand-curated entities, sourced from Wikidata under CC0. Easy is "household name" famous. Hard is "your history teacher would respect you" obscure. Nine question shapes — direct ("When did X happen?") and reverse-lookup ("Who was born in 1452?") — so you're not answering the same flavor of question twice. PLAYABLE END-TO-END - Bot games vs Pip / Rune / Void with history-themed taunts - Friendly challenges via codes + deep links — every mode has parity now - Daily objective: win a history match picking only hard questions - Era banner shows you what century you're guessing in - Six character abilities adapted for history — Ivy gets +3 damage on ancient-era questions CHESS-CLOCK PHILOSOPHY (WORDS + ANAGRAM REBALANCE) Your clock always drains. Playing a monster word now SLAMS the opponent — it doesn't top up your own runway. Base earn reduced, steal boosted — a 15-letter ultra or a pangram lands as a genuine attack on the other player, not a self-heal. Maths goes pure zero-sum (earn = steal) — every correct answer is a symmetric exchange, because math is balance. GEOGRAPHY + HISTORY: HARD IS HARD, NOT A COIN-FLIP Hard self-damage dropped from 14 to 10. Picking hard is no longer strictly worse than medium under uncertainty — it's a real risk/reward dial again. VOID STOPPED CHEATING The hard bot was quietly submitting 20+ letter dictionary words that scored almost nothing but felt cheap. Fixed — Void now respects the 15-letter cap like the rest of us. UNDER THE HOOD - Server-authoritative answer validation with AFK auto-resolution (no force-quit-to-stall) - Wikidata courtesy credit added to in-app Credits screen ### 2.1 — 2026-04-15 RICOCHET 2.1 — FREE. ZERO ADS. FULL GAME. NOW WITH EXTRA SHADE. WE WENT FREE. LIKE, ACTUALLY FREE. Every mode. Every character. Every bot. Every daily. Every challenge. No premium tier, no paywall, no ads, no timers, no "watch a video to continue." Just the full game, open forever. FRIENDS, NOT STRANGERS - Add friends by username or share sheet - Deep link challenges — tap a link, skip straight into a match - Friend requests with push notifications - Real-time 1v1 with your actual human friends BOT COMPENDIUM Inline bot cards on the home screen — Pip, Rune, Void. Each with their own taunts, their own FIGHT button, and their own difficulty curve. Tap, fight, rematch. DAILY OBJECTIVES Eight rotating daily challenges. Beat Rune. Land a 15-letter killing blow. Score a pangram kill. Sweep geography on hard. Complete it, claim 50 sparks. Fresh every UTC midnight — with a live countdown on the card so you always know when it resets. CHARACTERS WITH OPINIONS (NEW IN 2.1) Speech bubbles now react to what's happening. About to close out the match? Your character swaggers. Clock running dry? They panic. Mirror match? They get weird about it. Comeback after being down? They roar. Blaze doesn't just say "BURN!" anymore — she reads the room. PUNCHLINE TRAILS (NEW IN 2.1) Win a match and your punchline pops off with a cosmetic particle effect — flame, frost, confetti, starlight, or glowing runes. 500 Sparks each. Global equip — one trail follows you across every fighter. Small screen, big personality. BATTLE POLISH - Damage numbers redesigned — clean, naked, tier-sized. Big hits read BIG. Small hits read small. - Defender taunts and fumble taunts — deal zero damage, opponent mocks your weak attack. Fumble a maths or geo answer, opponent mocks the miss. Character-specific shade either way. - Dual-sprite callouts — attacker and defender bubbles now coexist. The wrong-answer "BRAIN FART!" and the opponent's "MISCALCULATED." both land, side by side. - Maths wrong answers now cost 2 seconds off your own clock (2.1) — no more garbage-guessing your way out of a hard problem. - Streak callouts and damage numbers decoupled — a 3-letter word on a 5-streak no longer shows a massive damage pop. - TIME OVER announcer cinematic now fires correctly on every timer-depletion finish. UNDER THE HOOD - Chess clock display refactored — no more 10Hz cascading recomputation, navigation between screens feels buttery. - Fixed a nasty bug where Void would silently skip his anagram turn if he won the coin toss. - Background music fades fixed — no more audio pileup on rapid mode switches. - Daily card no longer slides in on every return to home. ## More apps by David Hendranata - [Trumple](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trumple/id6760281440) All apps by David Hendranata: https://appshunter.io/developer/1883620125 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-22.*