Ruling — Blueprints

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Blueprintsbg-140933-en-1e

Setup

1. Pull two dice of different colors from the bag and place them in the 'In-Demand Materials' spots on the scoreboard to serve as tie-breakers.[1]

2. Deal one Blueprint card randomly to each player, who keeps it face up behind their screen.[1]

3. Draw a specific number of dice from the bag based on player count: 8 dice for 2 players, 9 dice for 3 players, or 7 dice for 4 players.[1]

4. Roll the drawn dice and sort them by value to form the pool of available materials.[1]

5. Determine turn order: in the first round, the player who most recently visited a building under construction goes first; in the second and third rounds, the player whose building scored the least in the previous round goes first.[1]

A Turn

1. Play proceeds clockwise.[2][1]

2. Select one die from the pool of available materials and place it on your Blueprint card.[2]

3. Dice may be placed on an empty space of your Blueprint card (excluding hatched spaces) or on top of a previously-placed die of equal or lower value.[2][3]

4. If a die cannot be legitimately placed, it is removed from play.[2]

5. Draw a replacement die from the bag, roll it, and add it to the pool of available materials.[2]

6. (In a 2-player game): Select one die for your building and select another die from the pool to discard, then draw and roll two replacement dice from the bag instead of one.[4]

7. Each placement is final; dice cannot be moved once placed, and their values cannot be changed.[2]

8. The turn sequence continues until each player has drawn 6 dice from the pool.[2]

Scoring and End of Round

1. After each player has drawn and placed 6 dice, reveal all buildings and score them.[2]

2. Scoring is done by going through each material in order and scoring every die of that color in every building:[5]

- Orange (wood): Score each die individually; score 2 points per die adjacent to the die being scored.[5]

- Green (recycled): Score a total of 2/5/10/15/20/30 points for using a total of 1/2/3/4/5/6 green dice.[5]

- Black (stone): Score each die individually; the die is worth 2/3/5/8 points for being on the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th (or higher) level of a building.[5]

- Clear (glass): Score each die individually; the die is worth the value of its top face.[5]

3. Every player whose building perfectly matches their Blueprint card immediately scores 6 points.[2]

4. Hand out Award cards (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) based on the highest scores.[5]

5. Prizes are awarded if buildings meet specific criteria.[5]

6. Use "In-Demand Materials" to break ties for Awards and Prizes.[5][6][1]

7. The score used for Awards is not victory points, and scoring markers are reset at the end of the round.[2]

8. Once Awards and Prizes are given, the round is over.[4]

9. To begin a new round: return all dice to the bag, discard used Blueprint cards, and remove scoring markers from the scoreboard.[4]

End of the Game

1. The game consists of three rounds.[3][1]

2. After the third round, reveal all Award and Prize cards and compare the total number of points.[4]

3. The player with the most points from Prizes and Awards wins.[3]

4. In case of a tie, the winner is the player with the most Prizes, then the most Gold Awards, then the most Silver Awards, then the most Bronze Awards; if still tied, players share the victory.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.2 · Gameplay · GET READY · DETERMINE TURN ORDER

[2] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.3 · BUILD · Placement Rules · SCORE · Blueprint Bonus

[3] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.1 · Overview · Components · Blueprint Cards

[4] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.6 · END OF THE ROUND · Game End · Two-Player Game · CREDITS

[5] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.4 · Materials · Awards · BREAKING TIES: IN-DEMAND MATERIALS · Prizes

[6] RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook · p.5 · SKYSCRAPER PRIZE · GEOMETER'S PRIZE · BLUEPRINT BONUS:

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 92 ms · ask 5313 ms · total 29744 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 24337 ms · generation 5407 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gameplay · GET READY · DETERMINE TURN ORDER", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BUILD · Placement Rules · SCORE · Blueprint Bonus", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Overview · Components · Blueprint Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF THE ROUND · Game End · Two-Player Game · CREDITS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Materials · Awards · BREAKING TIES: IN-DEMAND MATERIALS · Prizes", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SKYSCRAPER PRIZE · GEOMETER'S PRIZE · BLUEPRINT BONUS:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1192}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1192 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1192 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 0.88253 of 2724 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:07 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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Gameplay · GET READY · DETERMINE TURN ORDER	p.2	0.048916 (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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	BUILD · Placement Rules · SCORE · Blueprint Bonus	p.3	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
#3	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	END OF THE ROUND · Game End · Two-Player Game · CREDITS	p.6	0.047619 (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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Materials · Awards · BREAKING TIES: IN-DEMAND MATERIALS · Prizes	p.4	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
#5	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Overview · Components · Blueprint Cards	p.1	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
#6	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	SKYSCRAPER PRIZE · GEOMETER'S PRIZE · BLUEPRINT BONUS:	p.5	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 6 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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	BUILD · Placement Rules · SCORE · Blueprint Bonus	p.3	#2	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
#2	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Overview · Components · Blueprint Cards	p.1	#5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Materials · Awards · BREAKING TIES: IN-DEMAND MATERIALS · Prizes	p.4	#4	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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	SKYSCRAPER PRIZE · GEOMETER'S PRIZE · BLUEPRINT BONUS:	p.5	#6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	END OF THE ROUND · Game End · Two-Player Game · CREDITS	p.6	#3	0.047619 (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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Gameplay · GET READY · DETERMINE TURN ORDER	p.2	#1	0.048916 (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 Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Gameplay · GET READY · DETERMINE TURN ORDER	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	BUILD · Placement Rules · SCORE · Blueprint Bonus	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Overview · Components · Blueprint Cards	p.1	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	END OF THE ROUND · Game End · Two-Player Game · CREDITS	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	Materials · Awards · BREAKING TIES: IN-DEMAND MATERIALS · Prizes	p.4	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Blueprints — Rulebook (corpus doc 1192)	SKYSCRAPER PRIZE · GEOMETER'S PRIZE · BLUEPRINT BONUS:	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 92 ms · first delta 1033 ms · total 29744 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 24337 ms · retrieval 92 ms · ask 5313 ms · gateway work 5407 ms · total 29744 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2402
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 872
tok/sec: 202.0 tok/sec — 872 output tokens in 4.317 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 23h, checked 5s 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 1122), 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.