Ruling — Zombicide: 2nd Edition

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Zombicide: 2nd Editionbg-286751-en-1e

To play, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Choose a Mission.[1]

2. Place the tiles.[1]

3. Place the Spawn Zones, tokens, and miniatures as indicated by the Mission and tiles.[1]

Game Round Sequence

1. The player with the First Player token activates all of their Survivors, one after the other, in any order.[2]

2. Each Survivor has 3 Actions to spend, which can be:

* MOVE: Move 1 Zone (spending extra Actions if there are Zombies in the starting Zone).[2]

* SEARCH (1x per Turn): In a building Zone free of Zombies only, draw a card from the Equipment deck (or the Pimpweapon deck if searching from a Pimpweapon Crate).[2]

* OPEN DOORS: Use Door-opening Equipment to open a door in the Survivor's Zone.[2]

* REORGANIZE/TRADE: Reorganize inventory or exchange any number of cards with 1 other Survivor in the same Zone.[2]

* COMBAT ACTION: Perform a Melee Action (requires equipped Melee weapon) or a Ranged Action (requires equipped Ranged weapon).[2]

* TAKE OR ACTIVATE AN OBJECTIVE in the Survivor's Zone.[2]

* MAKE NOISE: Put a Noise token in the Survivor's Zone.[2]

* DO NOTHING: All remaining Actions are lost.[2]

3. Once all Survivors have been activated, the Zombies activate.[3]

4. Zombies perform their actions in order, resolving all Attacks first, then all Moves.[3][2]

5. Each Zombie spends its Action on either an Attack or a Move.[3][2]

* ATTACK: Each Zombie in the same Zone as Survivors performs an Attack, which is always successful and does not require die rolls.[3][2]

* MOVE: Zombies that have not Attacked use their Action to Move 1 Zone toward Survivors.[2]

* Note: Runners have 2 Actions per Activation; after their first Action is resolved, they go through the Activation step again to use their second Action.[4]

6. After the Zombie Phase, Zombies spawn using Zombie Spawn tokens as indicated by the Mission map.[2][4]

Winning and Losing

* Winning: Accomplish the Objectives in the specified order.[5][6]

* For some missions: 1- Stash all Objectives in the Pimpmobile; 2- Reach the Exit with all Survivors.[5]

* For other missions: 1- Take all Objectives; 2- Reach the Exit with all Survivors.[6]

* A Survivor (or the Car with its Driver, Passengers, and stashed Objectives) may escape through the Exit Zone at the end of their Turn, provided there are no Zombies in it.[5][6]

* Losing: The game is lost if a Survivor is eliminated (when their Wound Bar reaches the bottom).[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.6 · 48 TRACKERS

[2] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.68

[3] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.23 · DO NOTHING · STEP 1: ACTIVATION · -ATTACK

[4] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.25 · -PLAYING RUNNERS · STEP 2: SPAWN · COLORED SPAWN ZONES

[5] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.57 · Hard / 60 minutes · -OBJECTIVES

[6] RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.58 · Hard / 45 minutes · -OBJECTIVES · -SPECIAL RULES

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 164 ms · ask 7519 ms · total 7686 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7686 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "48 TRACKERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}, {"page": 68, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}, {"page": 23, "quote": null, "headingPath": "DO NOTHING · STEP 1: ACTIVATION · -ATTACK", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}, {"page": 25, "quote": null, "headingPath": "-PLAYING RUNNERS · STEP 2: SPAWN · COLORED SPAWN ZONES", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}, {"page": 57, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Hard / 60 minutes · -OBJECTIVES", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}, {"page": 58, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Hard / 45 minutes · -OBJECTIVES · -SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 583}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 583 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 583 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.88299 of 2017 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 19:08 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 45 minutes · -OBJECTIVES · -SPECIAL RULES	p.58	0.045957 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)		p.68	0.044237 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 60 minutes · -OBJECTIVES	p.57	0.044192 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	DO NOTHING · STEP 1: ACTIVATION · -ATTACK	p.23	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	I don't have time for dummies. Get out of my way! - Lili · Let's head this way! More zombies to kill! - Josh · REMEMBER: Kids can use the Slippery Skill (P. 66) once per Turn. · Open the door! Open the door! I want to see what's inside! What? Curious? Me? - Ostara · A Survivor can only perform a single Search Action per Turn (even if it's a free Action). · DOOR ACTION	p.19	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	TAKE OR ACTIVATE AN OBJECTIVE · MAKE NOISE · DO NOTHING	p.22	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Veteran Zombicide players, please note: · PLAYER PHASE · ZOMBIE PHASE · END PHASE · WINNING AND LOSING	p.8	0.029911 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)		p.68	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 80 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 60 minutes · -OBJECTIVES	p.57	#3	0.044192 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 45 minutes · -OBJECTIVES · -SPECIAL RULES	p.58	#1	0.045957 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	DO NOTHING · STEP 1: ACTIVATION · -ATTACK	p.23	#4	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)		p.68	#2	0.044237 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	-PLAYING RUNNERS · STEP 2: SPAWN · COLORED SPAWN ZONES	p.25	#14	0.026387 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	DARK ZONES	p.33	#18	0.023667 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	48 TRACKERS	p.6	#20	0.021085 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	MOVEMENT · - Wanda	p.11	#42	0.01087 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	48 TRACKERS	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)		p.68	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	DO NOTHING · STEP 1: ACTIVATION · -ATTACK	p.23	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	-PLAYING RUNNERS · STEP 2: SPAWN · COLORED SPAWN ZONES	p.25	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 60 minutes · -OBJECTIVES	p.57	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Zombicide: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 583)	Hard / 45 minutes · -OBJECTIVES · -SPECIAL RULES	p.58	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 164 ms · first delta 4382 ms · total 7686 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 164 ms · ask 7519 ms · gateway work 7686 ms · total 7686 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3374
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 652
tok/sec: 201.4 tok/sec — 652 output tokens in 3.238 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 0s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 515), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.