Ruling — Rolling Heights

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Rolling Heightsbg-331820-en-1e

Setup

1. Flip the 6 Neighborhood boards to the appropriate side based on player count: 2 players use all A sides; 3 players use 4 A sides and 2 B sides; 4 players use 3 A sides and 3 B sides.[1]

2. Arrange the 6 Neighborhood boards randomly in a 2x3 grid to form the map.[1]

3. Place the Score Board and 2 Market Strips alongside the map.[1]

4. Shuffle Building Plan tiles into two groups based on their backs.[1]

5. Stack LEVEL 1 tiles face-down by the draw area on Market Strip Level 1 and lay out 9 tiles face-up.[1]

6. Repeat this for LEVEL 2 tiles and Market Strip Level 2.[1]

7. Sort cubes into color piles, removing specific amounts based on player count: 2 players remove 25 cubes of each color; 3 players remove 13 cubes of each color; 4 players use all cubes.[1]

8. Sort meeples by color and place them near the boards.[1]

9. Place Wild Tokens near the boards.[1]

10. Shuffle Ad tiles face-down, select 3 randomly, and place them face-up on the score board.[1]

11. Shuffle Target tiles face-down and deal 2 to each player; players keep these hidden.[1]

12. Each player chooses a color and takes the corresponding player token, 18 ownership markers, a rolling box, 2 Carpenter meeples, and 2 Construction Worker meeples.[2][1]

13. Place player tokens on space '0' on the score track.[2][1]

14. Randomly determine a start player, who takes the start player token.[3]

15. Starting with the last player and moving counter-clockwise, players select a starting Building Plan and starting location on the map (on land, not water, and not on a space with a cube icon).[3]

16. If a player's starting building matches a map space bonus, they immediately score points and move their token.[3]

17. Place an ownership marker of your color on your starting tile.[3]

18. Players following in counter-clockwise order place tiles but may not place within 2 orthogonal spaces of another player's tile.[3]

19. Slide remaining tiles along Market Strip Level 1 to fill blanks and refill from the draw area.[3]

Game Turn

A player's turn consists of the following 4 phases:

1. PREP: Roll your active meeples in your rolling box.[3] If you have 10 or fewer meeples, roll all of them; if more than 10, choose 10 to roll.[4][5] Re-roll any meeples that land outside the box or in an unclear position.[4][5] Take out any "Working Hard" or "Working Steady" meeples and place them on the table; if more than half of your active meeples are "Exhausted," re-roll them until at least half are "Working Hard" or "Working Steady".[4]

2. RISK: Choose to push your luck or pass.[3]

3. MAIN: Resolve your roll, construct buildings, and buy 1 new Building Plan.[3] During this phase, you may add any number of cubes you've gained to your Building Plan tiles to complete them.[6] Once a building is complete, you immediately score the listed Victory Points, gain any depicted meeples (which become non-active), and place an ownership marker on the tile.[6]

4. CLEANUP: Lose any unspent cubes, refill the market by sliding tiles down the Market Strip, and refill the top of the strip from the draw area.[7][3] Your turn ends, and the next player in clockwise order begins.[7][3]

Game End and Scoring

1. The game is triggered when all cubes of 1 or more colors have been constructed in buildings on the board.[8]

2. Finish the current round until the last player in turn order has completed their turn, then complete 1 more full round so all players have an equal number of turns.[8]

3. Score the 3 Ad tiles on the score board.[8]

4. Each player chooses 1 of their 2 Target tiles to score, revealing it and discarding the other.[8][1]

5. Players score for any unused Wild Tokens.[8]

6. The player with the most VP wins; ties are broken by the player with the most meeples.[8]

[1] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.2 · SET UP

[2] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.2 · SET UP

[3] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.4 · SET UP · STARTING PLACEMENT AND BUILDING PLANS · GAME TURN

[4] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.5

[5] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.5 · PHASE 1: PREP · Cocked or Stacked Meeples

[6] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.9 · Constructing Buildings: · Completing Buildings:

[7] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.9 · PHASE 4: CLEANUP

[8] RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook · p.10 · MISCELLANEOUS CUBES · GAME END · SCORING

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 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 95 ms · ask 6826 ms · total 29858 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 22935 ms · generation 6923 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1218 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1218 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 0.88090 of 3115 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:09 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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP · STARTING PLACEMENT AND BUILDING PLANS · GAME TURN	p.4	0.04866 (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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 1: PREP · Cocked or Stacked Meeples	p.5	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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	BUILDING CLARIFICATIONS · MAYOR'S HOUSE: · HAUNTED HOUSE: · FAIRGROUNDS: · PRITZKER ZOO: · TUMBLE PARK: · …	p.11	0.046244 (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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)		p.5	0.046154 (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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 4: CLEANUP	p.9	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
#8	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)		p.11	0.029828 (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 22 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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)		p.5	#4	0.046154 (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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 4: CLEANUP	p.9	#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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	MISCELLANEOUS CUBES · GAME END · SCORING	p.10	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	Constructing Buildings: · Completing Buildings:	p.9	#11	0.014493 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP · STARTING PLACEMENT AND BUILDING PLANS · GAME TURN	p.4	#1	0.04866 (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 Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 1: PREP · Cocked or Stacked Meeples	p.5	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	SET UP · STARTING PLACEMENT AND BUILDING PLANS · GAME TURN	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 1: PREP · Cocked or Stacked Meeples	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	Constructing Buildings: · Completing Buildings:	p.9	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	PHASE 4: CLEANUP	p.9	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Rolling Heights — Rulebook (corpus doc 1218)	MISCELLANEOUS CUBES · GAME END · SCORING	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 95 ms · first delta 1766 ms · total 29858 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 22935 ms · retrieval 95 ms · ask 6826 ms · gateway work 6923 ms · total 29858 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3426
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1008
tok/sec: 197.8 tok/sec — 1008 output tokens in 5.096 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 9s 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 1148), 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.