RICOCHET(6)

🎀 RICOCHET — the games manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you found the RICOCHET(6) page, which lives in the Games Manual section (yes, section 6, the fun one). sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

ricochet — the client application for the multi-player ricochet robots game 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ricochet --host <hostname> --port <port> --name <username> --game
<gamename> --watch

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so Ricochet is a client for the Ricochet Robots server (that's rrserve, iykyk). what does it do? it gives you a whole view of the board and lets you go absolutely feral interacting with the server — both managing the set of games running on the server and actually playing individual games. main character energy on both fronts, no cap. 👑

✨ USAGE ✨

the options are as follows, and honestly, every single one of them ate:

• --help, --usage — prints a help/usage message and then dips. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨
• -h, --host hostname — picks the host that's running the Ricochet Robots server. by default, ricochet connects to localhost (your own machine, your own little kingdom 💖).
• -p, --port port — picks the TCP port to connect to. by default, ricochet connects to port 5252.
• -n, --name username — the player name you present to the server. everybody else in the game sees this one, so choose wisely bestie. by default, it's the user's login name.
• -g, --game gamename — selects a game to join or create. by default, ricochet pops up a dialog showing you the available games, and it also lets you create a brand new one. iconic behavior honestly.
• -w, --watch — this lets you watch the selected game instead of participating in it. spectator mode. lurking. observing. valid. 🙈

✨ AUTHOR ✨

icochet is the work of Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> 💜

Ricochet is Copyright 2003,2012 Keith Packard. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

⚠️ real talk though: that big block up there isn't decoration. the no-warranty bit is fr fr — it literally says WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, so don't come crying to Keith if your robots ricochet somewhere unexpected. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this little slice of the Games Manual is dated 2025-12-08 and it's serving <rainbow>RICOCHET(6)</rainbow> realness from the Games Manual section — go forth, connect to port 5252, and slay. 💅🌸