Ruling — Vegas Showdown

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Vegas Showdownbg-15364-en-1e

Each turn, do the following in order:

1. Drop prices: The player with the Turn Order Button starts each turn by dropping the prices of each premier tile on the game board by moving the Minimum-Bid marker for each premier tile to the next-lower circular space, skipping the next-lower square space.[1] If the marker is lowered from the '3' space, the tile on that space is removed from the game.[1] For a 3-player game, the space marked '4-5 Players Only' is left empty.[1]

2. Flip new tiles (if needed): Fill an empty premier space on the game board by drawing 1 card from the Event deck and following its instructions.[1] After completing an Event card action, look at the symbol in the center of the card, flip the top tile of the indicated premier stack, and fill an empty premier space with it.[2] Put a Minimum-Bid marker on the circular bidding-track number that matches the starting-bid price of the newly placed tile, then repeat for each empty premier space.[2] If no tiles remain in a stack to replace a tile, the game ends.[2]

3. Collect income: The banker gives each player an amount of money chips equal to the lesser of that player's Population and Revenue numbers ($5 to start).[2]

4. Choose actions: Starting with the player with the Turn Order Button and proceeding in clockwise order, each player chooses one of the following actions:[2]

* Bid on Tiles: To bid, put your Bid marker on the bidding-track space showing the amount you want to bid.[2] For a premier tile, you must bid at least the price indicated by the Minimum-Bid marker; for a non-premier tile, you must bid at least the price indicated by the minimum-bid space in yellow.[2] If another player has already bid on a tile, you must bid higher than them.[2] You cannot bid more than your cash on hand or higher than the highest space on the bidding track.[2] Bidding is complete once each player has taken an action and no players have been outbid.[3] Once bidding is complete, players with a bid pay the bank and either place the tile on their hotel-casino sheet or set it aside for later.[3]

* Renovate: (No specific steps provided for the action itself, but note that after renovating, tiles must follow placement rules [4]).

* Publicity: Put your Bid marker on the Publicity space on the game board; any number of players may choose to publicize on any given turn.[4] When you publicize, you immediately gain 1 Fame and may place 1 tile you own that is off your hotel-casino sheet onto your sheet, provided you meet the prerequisites.[4]

5. Adjust Fame, Revenue, and Population: After renovating or placing a tile, add any Fame, Revenue, or Population bonuses from newly placed tiles to the appropriate tracks.[4] If renovating, remove bonuses from removed tiles first.[4] Move markers up or down the tracks by the amount shown on the tile.[4] Each player retrieves their Bid marker at this time.[4]

6. Pass the Turn Order Button: The player with the Turn Order Button passes it to the player on their left.[4] If any No-Bid markers were placed during the Flip New Tiles step, remove them now.[4] (Note: This step is skipped on the first turn [1]).

[1] RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook · p.5 · HOW TO PLAY · 1. Drop Prices · 2. Flip New Tiles · Starting-Bid Price · Population · Revenue · …

[2] RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook · p.6 · Theme Bonus · 3. Collect Income · 4. Choose Actions · Bidding on Tiles

[3] RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook · p.7 · Bidding on Tiles · Purchase & Placement of Tiles · Tiles must be placed as follows:

[4] RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook · p.9 · Renovate · Publicity · 5. Adjust Fame, Revenue, and Population · 6. Pass the Turn Order Button

The sage rests. The game continues.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 105 ms · ask 9048 ms · total 9161 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9161 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 793 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 793 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 0.92620 of 2588 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 16:57 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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)		p.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))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	HOW TO PLAY · 1. Drop Prices · 2. Flip New Tiles · Starting-Bid Price · Population · Revenue · …	p.5	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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	You are a multimillionaire. · OVERVIEW	p.3	0.047379 (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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Theme Bonus · 3. Collect Income · 4. Choose Actions · Bidding on Tiles	p.6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Renovate · Publicity · 5. Adjust Fame, Revenue, and Population · 6. Pass the Turn Order Button	p.9	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
#6	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Renovate	p.8	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
#7	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	OVERVIEW · SETUP	p.4	0.030366 (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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	GAME END · Scoring Ties · Winning the Game · QUESTIONS? · avalonhill.com	p.11	0.029851 (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 13 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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	HOW TO PLAY · 1. Drop Prices · 2. Flip New Tiles · Starting-Bid Price · Population · Revenue · …	p.5	#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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Theme Bonus · 3. Collect Income · 4. Choose Actions · Bidding on Tiles	p.6	#4	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	OVERVIEW · SETUP	p.4	#7	0.030366 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	GAME END · Scoring Ties · Winning the Game · QUESTIONS? · avalonhill.com	p.11	#8	0.029851 (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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Renovate · Publicity · 5. Adjust Fame, Revenue, and Population · 6. Pass the Turn Order Button	p.9	#5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	You are a multimillionaire. · OVERVIEW	p.3	#3	0.047379 (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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Bidding on Tiles · Purchase & Placement of Tiles · Tiles must be placed as follows:	p.7	#9	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
#8	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)		p.1	#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 Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	HOW TO PLAY · 1. Drop Prices · 2. Flip New Tiles · Starting-Bid Price · Population · Revenue · …	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Theme Bonus · 3. Collect Income · 4. Choose Actions · Bidding on Tiles	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Bidding on Tiles · Purchase & Placement of Tiles · Tiles must be placed as follows:	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Vegas Showdown — Rulebook (corpus doc 793)	Renovate · Publicity · 5. Adjust Fame, Revenue, and Population · 6. Pass the Turn Order Button	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 105 ms · first delta 3651 ms · total 9161 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 105 ms · ask 9048 ms · gateway work 9161 ms · total 9161 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3307
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 727
tok/sec: 133.3 tok/sec — 727 output tokens in 5.452 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s 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 3s 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 728), 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.