Ruling — Las Vegas Royale

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Las Vegas Royalebg-271319-en-1e

The game is played over three rounds.[1]

**Setup**

1. Place the dice arena in the center of the table with the black hexagon in its center.[2]

2. Assemble the ring with the six casinos (three parts) and put it around the dice arena.[2]

3. Shuffle the 90 money cards and set them aside in a face down pile.[2]

4. Draw 2 cards and place them face up next to each other on the table, repeating this process until 6 pairs of cards have been revealed.[2]

5. Place the pair of cards with the highest total value next to the casino 'Sunset'.[2]

6. Place the pair with the next highest value next to the casino 'Cleopatra', and so on.[2]

7. If two card pairs have the same total value, place the one with the higher money card next to the casino with the higher rank.[2]

8. Give each player eight dice of the color of their choice, plus two chips.[2]

**A Turn**

1. The oldest player begins, then the other players follow in clockwise order.[1]

2. On your turn, roll all your remaining dice into the dice arena.[1]

3. You may pay one of your chips and pass the turn by removing all your dice from the arena if you are not satisfied with your roll.[3]

4. Choose exactly one of the rolled numbers.[1]

5. Place all dice of that number in the corresponding casino.[1]

6. Remove the remaining dice from the arena.[1]

7. The next player in turn order rolls their dice and places them, and so on, until all players have placed all their dice.[1]

8. If you are out of dice, you pass for the rest of the round.[1]

**Payout**

1. Payout starts when the last player has placed their final die in a casino.[3]

2. Check each casino to see if two or more players have placed the same number of dice there.[3]

3. If there is a tie, those players remove all their dice from the casino (note: the 'Biggy' counts as two smaller dice).[3]

4. The player with the most dice in the casino wins the money card with the higher value; the runner up wins the other money card.[3]

5. All other players leave the casino empty-handed.[3]

6. Pay out the other five casinos in the same manner.[3]

7. If there are any money cards left in a casino after payout, put them face down under the money card pile.[3]

8. Take back all your dice to prepare for the next round.[3]

**Ending the Game**

1. The game ends after three rounds.[4]

2. Count your money (each leftover chip is worth $10,000).[4]

3. The player with the most money is the winner.[4]

4. In case of a tie, the player with the most money cards and chips is the winner.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook · p.2 · PLAYING THE GAME

[2] RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook · p.2 · LAS VEGAS (basic/introductory game) · GAME SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook · p.3 · THE CHIPS · PAYOUT · Example 1: · Example 2: · casino: · Second and third round

[4] RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook · p.3 · Casino by casino: · END OF THE GAME

The book has spoken.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 92 ms · ask 7400 ms · total 20740 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 13247 ms · generation 7493 ms
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base rulebook doc 829 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 0.88828 of 2023 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 22, 2026 17:47 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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	PLAYING THE GAME · END OF THE GAME	p.4	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
#2	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.2	0.048412 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	BLOCK IT! (tile F1) · HANDICAP (tile F2)	p.7	0.047123 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	BAD LUCK (tile C2) · PAY DAY (tile D1) · POWER PLAY (tile D2) · NO ENTRY! (tile E1)	p.6	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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	NICE DICE (tile H1) · MY CHOICE (tile H2) · VARIANT	p.8	0.045688 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	LAS VEGAS (basic/introductory game) · GAME SETUP	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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	Gamble up to the very last roll!	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
#8	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	THE CHIPS · PAYOUT · Example 1: · Example 2: · casino: · Second and third round	p.3	0.029644 (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 18 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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.2	#2	0.048412 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	THE CHIPS · PAYOUT · Example 1: · Example 2: · casino: · Second and third round	p.3	#8	0.029644 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	LAS VEGAS (basic/introductory game) · GAME SETUP	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
#4	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	Casino by casino: · END OF THE GAME	p.3	#14	0.013514 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	KNOCKOUT? (tile E2)	p.6	#13	0.013889 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	BLOCK IT! (tile F1) · HANDICAP (tile F2)	p.7	#3	0.047123 (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 Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	LUCKY PUNCH (tile A1) · JACKPOT (tile A2) · PRIME TIME (tile B1) · FIFTY FIFTY (tile B2)	p.5	#11	0.028405 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	PLAYING THE GAME · END OF THE GAME	p.4	#1	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	LAS VEGAS (basic/introductory game) · GAME SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	THE CHIPS · PAYOUT · Example 1: · Example 2: · casino: · Second and third round	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Las Vegas Royale — Rulebook (corpus doc 829)	Casino by casino: · END OF THE GAME	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 92 ms · first delta 2481 ms · total 20740 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 13247 ms · retrieval 92 ms · ask 7400 ms · gateway work 7493 ms · total 20740 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3034
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 662
tok/sec: 133.6 tok/sec — 662 output tokens in 4.954 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 42s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, 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 764), 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.