Ruling — Sushi Roll

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Sushi Rollbg-271869-en-1e

To play the game, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Separate all tokens (chopsticks, menu, pudding, scoring) into piles in the center of the table.[1]

2. Each player takes 2 chopsticks and 3 menu tokens.[1]

3. Select a number of conveyor belts equal to the number of players, ensuring the red-bordered belt is included.[1]

4. Shuffle conveyor belts face-down and deal 1 randomly to each player, then turn them face-up.[1]

5. Place all dice into the dice bag and shake.[1]

6. Each player takes dice randomly from the bag and places them on their conveyor belt.[1]

7. Each player takes a tray and places it face-up in front of them to store collected dice.[1]

Starting a Round

1. All players pick up all dice on their conveyor belts and roll them on the table.[2]

2. Everyone places their dice back on their conveyor belts without changing their faces.[2]

3. The player with the red-bordered conveyor belt goes first.[2]

A Turn

1. On your turn, you may optionally use any number of menu and/or chopsticks tokens:[2]

* Menu: Return 1 menu token to the supply, then pick up any number of dice from your conveyor belt and re-roll them on the table, placing them back on the conveyor belt as rolled.[2]

* Chopsticks: Return 1 chopsticks token to the supply, then choose 1 die on another player's conveyor belt and swap it with 1 die on your conveyor belt without changing either's face (you may never swap dice in another player's tray).[2]

2. Choose 1 die to keep.[2]

3. Move the chosen die from your conveyor belt to your tray without changing its face.[2]

* If you take a pudding die, you immediately take pudding tokens from the center equal to the number of pudding icons on that die.[2]

* If you take a die showing menu or chopsticks icons, you immediately take tokens corresponding to the type and number of icons on the die.[2]

* If you choose a nigiri die and already have a die showing wasabi on your tray, you must place the nigiri die on top of that die (only 1 nigiri die can go on top of each wasabi).[2]

* If you choose a nigiri die and have no wasabi die, you simply place it on your tray.[2]

Continuing the Round

1. Once everyone has taken a turn, if any dice remain on the conveyor belts, all players simultaneously slide their conveyor belts (and the dice on them) to the player on their left.[3]

2. Re-roll all dice just passed to you as done at the start of the round.[3]

3. The player who now has the red-bordered conveyor belt becomes the new starting player, and each player takes another turn.[3]

Scoring a Round

1. At the end of each round, players score the dice collected in their trays.[4]

2. Each player looks at all faces showing on their dice and takes scoring tokens equal to the points scored.[4]

3. Maki Rolls: Players compare the number of maki roll icons; the player with the most scores 6 points, and the player with the second most scores 3 points (ties receive full points).[4]

4. Nigiri: Each egg nigiri is worth 1 point, salmon is worth 2 points, and squid is worth 3 points; a nigiri die on top of a wasabi die is tripled in value.[4]

5. Note: In a 3-player game only, players slide conveyor belts to the left at the end of the round; otherwise, belts stay in place to ensure the start player changes.[4]

Ending the Game

1. After the third round, perform final scoring.[5]

2. Pudding: The player with the most pudding tokens scores 6 points; the player with the fewest (including 0) loses 6 points (in a 2-player game, the player with the fewest does not lose 6 points).[5]

3. Unused Tokens: Each player receives 1 point for every set of 2 unused menu and/or chopsticks tokens remaining.[5]

4. Appetizers: Score dumplings, tempura, and sashimi based on the number of icons in sets:[5]

* Dumplings: 1 icon = 1 pt, 2 = 3 pts, 3 = 2 pts, 4 = 8 pts.[5]

* **Temp

[1] RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook · p.2 · CONTENTS · OVERVIEW · SET UP · TRAYS

[2] RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook · p.3 · PLAYING A ROUND · EVERYBODY TAKES A TURN · 2 Choose 1 die to keep. [Mandatory]

[3] RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook · p.3 · SLIDE AND ROLL!

[4] RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook · p.4 · SCORING A ROUND · STARTING A NEW ROUND

[5] RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook · p.4 · ENDING THE GAME

Settled. Play 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 207 ms · ask 5963 ms · total 6172 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6172 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS · OVERVIEW · SET UP · TRAYS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1234}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYING A ROUND · EVERYBODY TAKES A TURN · 2 Choose 1 die to keep. [Mandatory]", "sharpsignalDocId": 1234}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SLIDE AND ROLL!", "sharpsignalDocId": 1234}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SCORING A ROUND · STARTING A NEW ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 1234}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ENDING THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 1234}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1234 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1234 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 0.88762 of 3159 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 08:52 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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	PLAYING A ROUND · EVERYBODY TAKES A TURN · 2 Choose 1 die to keep. [Mandatory]	p.3	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT · Follow us!	p.4	0.046875 (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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	CONTENTS · OVERVIEW · SET UP · TRAYS	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)		p.1	0.04598 (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))	70
#5	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SLIDE AND ROLL!	p.3	0.032258 (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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SCORING A ROUND · STARTING A NEW ROUND	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
#7	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	ENDING THE GAME	p.4	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 7 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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	PLAYING A ROUND · EVERYBODY TAKES A TURN · 2 Choose 1 die to keep. [Mandatory]	p.3	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SCORING A ROUND · STARTING A NEW ROUND	p.4	#6	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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	ENDING THE GAME	p.4	#7	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
#4	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)		p.1	#4	0.04598 (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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT · Follow us!	p.4	#2	0.046875 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	CONTENTS · OVERVIEW · SET UP · TRAYS	p.2	#3	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
#7	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SLIDE AND ROLL!	p.3	#5	0.032258 (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 Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	CONTENTS · OVERVIEW · SET UP · TRAYS	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	PLAYING A ROUND · EVERYBODY TAKES A TURN · 2 Choose 1 die to keep. [Mandatory]	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SLIDE AND ROLL!	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	SCORING A ROUND · STARTING A NEW ROUND	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Sushi Roll — Rulebook (corpus doc 1234)	ENDING THE GAME	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 207 ms · first delta 1064 ms · total 6172 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 207 ms · ask 5963 ms · gateway work 6172 ms · total 6172 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2292
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 202.7 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 5.053 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 4s 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 1164), 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.