Ruling — Mini Rogue

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Mini Roguebg-311715-en-1e

To play Mini Rogue, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Choose a Character card and place it faceup to the left of your Character mat.[1]

2. Set your Character's starting stats according to the values on the top right corner of your Character card, setting any missing stats to 0.[1]

3. Place the Rewards/Ghost reference card to the right of your Character mat.[1]

4. Keep one Dungeon die and one Character die nearby.[1]

5. Place the black cube on the first Area space of the Dungeon mat.[1]

6. Shuffle all Room cards and lay the first eight cards facedown as indicated.[2][1]

7. Place the unused Room cards facedown to the left of the top-left card of the Area.[1]

8. Place the Og's Remains Boss card facedown at the bottom-right corner of the Area.[1]

9. Shuffle the remaining Bosses and place three of them on top of Og's Remains, all facedown.[1]

10. Reveal the top-left card of the Area and place your Character token or meeple on it.[2][1]

11. (For 2 players) Each player picks a Character card, sets up a Character mat, and randomly determines a Party Leader.[3]

Turn Sequence

1. Guide your Character through a single Area from the entrance, moving left to right and top to bottom towards the exit.[2]

2. Resolve the Room card where your Character token is located.[2]

* If two players are in the same Room, resolve cards one after the other, starting with the Party Leader.[4]

* If resolving a Monster or Boss with both players on the same card, the Party Leader performs their Attack phase, then the Monster attacks the Party and then the second player performs their Attack phase, then the Monster attacks the second player; repeat until the Monster or a player is dead.[5]

* If resolving an Item room card together and both players want the card, they must resolve it; if either succeeds, that player picks up the card.[4]

3. After resolving a card, reveal the two nearest Room cards (the one to the right and the one below) if possible.[2]

4. Choose which of these two Rooms to move to, noting that you cannot move diagonally, up, or left.[2]

5. If a player is in the right column or bottom row, they must move to the only available Room.[2]

6. Repeat the process until you reach the bottom-right (Exit) card.[2]

7. If a Boss card was revealed at the start of the Area, resolve it after reaching the exit.[2]

8. Proceed to the Delving phase, where both players must eat, refresh Character cards, and change Areas together.[5]

Combat (Monster or Boss)

1. Enter Combat whenever you face a Monster or Boss.[6]

2. Your Character attacks first, then defends against the monster's attack.[6]

3. Roll the dice pool (Character dice, Dungeon die, and Poison/Curse dice if applicable).[6]

4. Activate any Curse and Poison effects.[6]

5. Reroll any Character dice that landed on a Critical Hit (adding the new result to the previous value) as many times as desired.[6]

6. Perform Feats by rerolating a die result by reducing XP by 1 or HP by 2 (only one Feat per die).[6]

7. Add all Character dice values together, excluding Misses, to determine damage.[6]

8. Optionally use a single Offensive Potion from your inventory.[6]

9. Apply damage to the Monster; if it survives, continue with the Monster Attack Phase.[6]

Ending the Game

* The game ends and players lose if a Character's HP falls to 0.[3]

* Players win if they reach the last room of the dungeon and defeat the final Boss to collect the Og's Blood.[7][3]

[1] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.8 · TURN SEQUENCE · Preparation Phase · Exploration Phase

[3] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.24 · END OF THE GAME · 2 PLAYER CO-OPERATIVE RULES · Setup · How to Play

[4] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.25 · How to Play

[5] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.26 · How to Play · COMBAT STANCES CARD VARIANT

[6] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.10 · COMBAT · Attack Phase

[7] RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook · p.3 · OBJECT OF THE GAME · COMPONENTS

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 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 116 ms · ask 7574 ms · total 7693 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7693 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1128 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1128 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 0.89996 of 2829 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 13:28 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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play · COMBAT STANCES CARD VARIANT	p.26	0.048139 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	CHARACTER CLASSES AND SKILLS · DIFFICULTY	p.16	0.047643 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play	p.25	0.047493 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	END OF THE GAME · 2 PLAYER CO-OPERATIVE RULES · Setup · How to Play	p.24	0.046432 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	OBJECT OF THE GAME · COMPONENTS	p.3	0.045002 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	TURN SEQUENCE · Preparation Phase · Exploration Phase	p.8	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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	SETUP	p.4	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
#8	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	COMBAT · Attack Phase	p.10	0.029412 (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 39 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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play	p.25	#3	0.047493 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play · COMBAT STANCES CARD VARIANT	p.26	#1	0.048139 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	TURN SEQUENCE · Preparation Phase · Exploration Phase	p.8	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	TURN EXAMPLE	p.22	#10	0.028259 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	COMBAT · Attack Phase	p.10	#8	0.029412 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	OBJECT OF THE GAME · COMPONENTS	p.3	#5	0.045002 (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 Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	SETUP	p.4	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	END OF THE GAME · 2 PLAYER CO-OPERATIVE RULES · Setup · How to Play	p.24	#4	0.046432 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	TURN SEQUENCE · Preparation Phase · Exploration Phase	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	END OF THE GAME · 2 PLAYER CO-OPERATIVE RULES · Setup · How to Play	p.24	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play	p.25	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	How to Play · COMBAT STANCES CARD VARIANT	p.26	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	COMBAT · Attack Phase	p.10	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Mini Rogue — Rulebook (corpus doc 1128)	OBJECT OF THE GAME · COMPONENTS	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 116 ms · first delta 3204 ms · total 7693 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 116 ms · ask 7574 ms · gateway work 7693 ms · total 7693 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3591
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 876
tok/sec: 199.8 tok/sec — 876 output tokens in 4.384 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 17s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 8s 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 1058), 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.