Ruling — Tower Up

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How do I play?

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Setup

1. Place the board in the center of the table; for a 2-player game, fold the board and place the half-board on the back between both players.[1]

2. Place the container with all roofs sorted by color next to the board.[1]

3. Shuffle all Materials cards, create a draw pile, and place it to the left of the container.[1]

4. Reveal 3 cards and display them on the container to form the Market.[1]

5. Place 3 starting floors on the board by checking the cards in the Market: for each card, take a floor matching the color of the bottom floor and place it on 3 construction sites of your choice (anywhere on the main board), ensuring two floors of the same color are never adjacent.[1]

6. Choose a personal board and place it in front of you.[1]

7. Place each vehicle marker on the first spot of the appropriate track.[1]

8. Take all 10 roofs matching the color of your board and take the matching traffic cone to place next to them.[1]

9. For your first game, place the Starting cards face up on the dedicated slots of the board.[2]

10. Place the bonus chips on the dedicated slots according to their shape and value.[2]

11. Take 1 floor of each color and place them in front of your personal board as your starting supply.[2]

12. The player who lives on the highest floor is the 1st player.[2]

Gameplay

The game is played in clockwise order, starting with the 1st player.[3] On your turn, you may take one of two possible actions:[3]

TAKE 1 CARD

1. Choose a card from the Market.[3]

2. Discard it in the space provided on the right of the container and gain what is depicted on it.[3]

3. Immediately draw a new card to refill the Market.[3]

PLACE 1 ROOF

1. For each depicted floor, take the matching floor from the container and place it in your supply (multicolored floors act as jokers).[3]

2. For each depicted vehicle, move the matching marker by 1 step forward on its track.[3]

3. At the end of your turn, ensure your supply does not contain more than 10 floors; if it does, put the floors of your choice back in the container.[3]

START 1 NEW BUILDING

1. Take a floor from your supply and place it on an empty site of the board that is adjacent to at least one other building.[3]

2. Ensure the new building is not the same color as any building adjacent to it.[3]

3. 'Pay' the price of the new building by adding a floor to each adjacent building using floors from your supply; the floor paid must be the same color as the building you are placing it on.[3]

4. Place one (and only one) of your roofs on one (and only one) of the floors you just placed (this can be on the newly started building or any floor that served as payment).[3]

5. Move forward the marker matching the color of the building you placed a roof on by as many steps as the number of floors that building now has.[3]

Additional Rules:

* You may start only one new building per turn and place only one roof per turn.[4]

* After moving a marker, check if all markers have reached (or passed) the column of stars on your board; if so, you immediately play an extra turn.[5]

* An action performed during an extra turn may trigger an additional extra turn.[4]

Game End and Scoring

1. The game ends when a player places their last roof, triggering the final phase.[5]

2. After placing the last roof, finish your turn normally, then immediately count the number of roofs you have on top of a building.[5]

3. Place your cone on the corresponding square at the bottom of the board (maximum 7).[5]

4. All opponents then play their final turn (with possible extra turns) and place their markers.[5]

5. Once everyone is done, sum the millions earned from all markers and the millions earned from bonus chips.[5]

6. The richest player wins; in a tie, the player with the most remaining floors in their supply wins; if a tie persists, the tied players share the victory.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook · p.4 · SET UP

[2] RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook · p.5 · SET UP

[3] RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook · p.6 · SET UP · TAKE 1 CARD · EXAMPLES · START 1 NEW BUILDING · PLACE 1 ROOF · SCORE · …

[4] RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook · p.8 · OBJECTIVES CARDS · GAME TURN · SCORING · TACTICAL ADVICE · EXTRA TURN · GAME END · …

[5] RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook · p.7 · EXTRA TURN · OBJECTIVES · GAME END · FINAL SCORE

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 253 ms · ask 5736 ms · total 5991 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5991 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1245 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1245 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 0.90840 of 3155 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 13:27 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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	EXTRA TURN · OBJECTIVES · GAME END · FINAL SCORE	p.7	0.048652 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	Move:	p.6	0.046642 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP · TAKE 1 CARD · EXAMPLES · START 1 NEW BUILDING · PLACE 1 ROOF · SCORE · …	p.6	0.045037 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.5	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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.4	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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	GAME COMPONENTS · 1 BOARD	p.2	0.03125 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	CREDITS · Game Design · Project Manager · Product Manager · Illustrations · Graphism and layout · …	p.2	0.030622 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	VARIANT	p.8	0.030303 (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 10 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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	Move:	p.6	#2	0.046642 (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 Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.4	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	EXTRA TURN · OBJECTIVES · GAME END · FINAL SCORE	p.7	#1	0.048652 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	GAME COMPONENTS · 1 BOARD	p.2	#6	0.03125 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	OBJECTIVES CARDS · GAME TURN · SCORING · TACTICAL ADVICE · EXTRA TURN · GAME END · …	p.8	#9	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	VARIANT	p.8	#8	0.030303 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP · TAKE 1 CARD · EXAMPLES · START 1 NEW BUILDING · PLACE 1 ROOF · SCORE · …	p.6	#3	0.045037 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.5	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	SET UP · TAKE 1 CARD · EXAMPLES · START 1 NEW BUILDING · PLACE 1 ROOF · SCORE · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	OBJECTIVES CARDS · GAME TURN · SCORING · TACTICAL ADVICE · EXTRA TURN · GAME END · …	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Tower Up — Rulebook (corpus doc 1245)	EXTRA TURN · OBJECTIVES · GAME END · FINAL SCORE	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 253 ms · first delta 1166 ms · total 5991 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 253 ms · ask 5736 ms · gateway work 5991 ms · total 5991 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2710
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 964
tok/sec: 202.4 tok/sec — 964 output tokens in 4.764 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 23s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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 1175), 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.