Ruling — Lockup: A Roll Player Tale

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A game of Lockup is played over six rounds.[1] Each round is divided into three phases, which must be performed in order:[1]

I. Roll Call Phase

1. Players take turns assigning their crew tokens to various locations in the prison, starting with the current first player and proceeding clockwise.[1]

2. On a turn, a player may assign one or more crew tokens to a single location, but they may not assign tokens to a location if they have already assigned tokens to that location on a previous turn in the current round.[1]

3. Players may not assign crew tokens to the LIBRARY location.[1]

4. Each player may assign up to two crew tokens face down (hidden from opponents), while the rest must be assigned face up (in a two-player game, players may assign up to three tokens face down).[1]

5. A player must pass if they have no more crew tokens to assign, or they may pass even if they have tokens remaining.[1]

6. Once a player passes, they can no longer participate in this phase.[1]

II. Lights Out Phase

1. Each location is resolved one at a time in numerical order, starting with the EXERCISE YARD and ending with the LIBRARY.[1]

2. To resolve each location:

* Determine crew strengths.[2]

* Gain suspicion.[2]

* Collect rewards.[2]

3. At each location, players collect rewards based on the relative strength totals of their assigned crew tokens.[1]

4. In order of strength rank, each player with one or more crew tokens at the location collects the reward (if any) for their strength rank.[2]

5. If there are suspicion cubes at the location, the player with the most strength gains all of those cubes and puts them on their crew board, unless that player's lookout is present; if a lookout is present, the next player in strength rank without a lookout gains the cubes.[2]

6. If no one has tokens at a location, or if all players with tokens have lookouts present, the suspicion cubes remain at the location.[2]

7. After collecting rewards, players return their crew tokens from that location to their holding cell.[2]

8. For each player who did not collect a reward, move their crew tokens from that location to the LIBRARY (unless the LIBRARY is the location currently being resolved, in which case tokens are returned to the holding cell).[3]

III. Patrol Phase

1. This phase is skipped during the sixth round.[3]

2. Players must discard resources back to the supply if they are over their storage limit.[3]

Ending the Game

1. After six rounds, the game end is triggered.[4]

2. Initiate one final raid, regardless of remaining suspicion cubes in the supply.[4]

3. Perform final scoring.[4]

4. If the player has more reputation stars than the guards, the player wins; otherwise, the guards win (including ties).[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook · p.8 · How to Play v · ROUND OVERVIEW · I. ROLL CALL PHASE · Assigning Crew Tokens · Passing · II. LIGHTS OUT PHASE

[2] RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook · p.9 · 1. Determine Crew Strengths · 2. Gain Suspicion · 3. Collect Rewards

[3] RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook · p.9 · 4. Move Stragglers to the Library · III. PATROL PHASE · 1. Check Resource Limits

[4] RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook · p.18 · Reshuffle Decks · SOLITARY MODE - GAME END

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 82 ms · ask 5027 ms · total 38777 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 33665 ms · generation 5112 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1225 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1225 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 0.91347 of 2265 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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	How to Play v · ROUND OVERVIEW · I. ROLL CALL PHASE · Assigning Crew Tokens · Passing · II. LIGHTS OUT PHASE	p.8	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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	SOLITARY MODE - SETUP · SOLITARY MODE - ROLL CALL PHASE	p.17	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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Claiming Goals v · LEADER GOAL CARDS · INSTANT GOAL CARDS	p.13	0.044776 (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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Advanced Setup v · Solitary Mode v · GUARD BOARD · GUARD DECK · LOCATION DECK	p.16	0.043496 (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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	v Game Setup v	p.7	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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	v Game Setup v	p.7	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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	2. Refill Item Display · 3. Advance Goon Cards · 4. Add Suspicion Cubes · Game End v · FINAL SCORING	p.10	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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	END GAME GOAL CARDS	p.13	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 26 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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	How to Play v · ROUND OVERVIEW · I. ROLL CALL PHASE · Assigning Crew Tokens · Passing · II. LIGHTS OUT PHASE	p.8	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	SOLITARY MODE - SETUP · SOLITARY MODE - ROLL CALL PHASE	p.17	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	v Game Setup v	p.7	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Crafting Items v · CRAFTING ITEMS · RESERVING ITEMS · Special Effect Icons v	p.14	#9	0.029911 (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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	1. Determine Crew Strengths · 2. Gain Suspicion · 3. Collect Rewards	p.9	#14	0.027972 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	4. Move Stragglers to the Library · III. PATROL PHASE · 1. Check Resource Limits	p.9	#12	0.028577 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Reshuffle Decks · SOLITARY MODE - GAME END	p.18	#18	0.013699 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Advanced Setup v · Solitary Mode v · GUARD BOARD · GUARD DECK · LOCATION DECK	p.16	#4	0.043496 (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 Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	How to Play v · ROUND OVERVIEW · I. ROLL CALL PHASE · Assigning Crew Tokens · Passing · II. LIGHTS OUT PHASE	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	1. Determine Crew Strengths · 2. Gain Suspicion · 3. Collect Rewards	p.9	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	4. Move Stragglers to the Library · III. PATROL PHASE · 1. Check Resource Limits	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1225)	Reshuffle Decks · SOLITARY MODE - GAME END	p.18	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 82 ms · first delta 1768 ms · total 38777 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 33665 ms · retrieval 82 ms · ask 5027 ms · gateway work 5112 ms · total 38777 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3552
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 645
tok/sec: 199.4 tok/sec — 645 output tokens in 3.235 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 22h, checked 6s 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 1155), 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.