Welcome to the rooftop shuttle station. The shuttle route must visit a charger before it reaches the roof where the boxes are needed. Your team has the original records on the table. First recover five pieces of information, then use the final plan to plan the rooftop supply route. Keep every result beside its badge so another teammate can check your reasoning.
How your team will think
Compare path costs, capacity and required stops before choosing a journey.
Read the route’s start, destination and rules together. Trace one complete option at a time and keep its resource checks beside it, rather than mixing pieces of different routes.
Set up in one room
Print the six player sheets and two record sheets for each team. Keep answers and hints with the host.
Lay out Travel map (one way), Event cards, the remaining clue sheets and the final plan. All task records are printed inside the sheets; no extra prop is needed.
After each clue, pass roles one seat clockwise. With two players, combine Reader with Recorder and Checker with Builder. With five or six, add a second checker and a source finder; everyone explains one decision.
Ages and durations are design estimates. Choose the pace and reading support that suit your group.
Look before you print
See all 6 player clues
These are the actual figures and instructions from the player pack. Read the final page’s rule along with the earlier clues.
Clue 1 of 6
Path
Trace a legal supply journey from S to F. The map's arrows are one-way roads. Visit every required stop, stay inside the travel budget and use the cheapest complete journey. Report all stop letters.
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Travel map (one way)
S=Loading roof; C=Charger; L=Cargo lift; B=Balcony; F=Receiving roof
S > C: 2 units
S > L: 1 units
C > B: 1 units
B > L: 2 units
C > L: 6 units
L > F: 2 units
B > F: 1 units
L > C: 1 units
Journey rules
Start S; finish F; limit 9 units.
Visit C, L. Use the least total cost.
Write every stop in order, with hyphens.
Clue 2 of 6
Window
The shuttle log mixes two immediate handoffs with longer before notes. Reconstruct all five jobs and report the requested position only after checking each note.
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Event cards
C: Charge shuttle
L: Load box
H: Close hatch
T: Test lift
F: Fly to roof
Witness notes
C is before L.
L is immediately before H.
H is before T.
T is immediately before F.
Report the event ID in position 4.
Clue 3 of 6
Signal
Recover the complete desk-signal legend from the training cards. Compare which signals and words appear together across the cards; word order on a card is not a clue. Decode the received message in order. The desk uses this message when handling the rooftop supply boxes.
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Unlabelled legend
Signals: DOT, BAR, ARC, RING. Words: WAIT, SEND, TURN, REST.
Each signal has one word; each word is used once.
Training messages
DOT means SEND (any order)
BAR+ARC means TURN+REST (any order)
ARC+RING means REST+WAIT (any order)
Received message
RING > BAR
Report decoded words in order, with hyphens.
Clue 4 of 6
Record
Use the roof requests and lift ledger to follow the completed record. Match printed keys, then report the requested field. A planned or cancelled entry cannot prove a move.
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Roof requests
item: Lift | tag: PINE | status: cancelled
item: Roof | tag: WAVE | status: draft
item: Pad | tag: STAR | status: checked
Lift ledger
tag: STAR | bay: NORTH
tag: PINE | bay: EAST
tag: WAVE | bay: WEST
Cross-check
Match A.tag to B.tag.
A.status is checked.
Report B.bay.
Clue 5 of 6
Food
Use the stock and dependency cards to find which transfer system can run now. Follow each chain from an available part. A pair of systems waiting for each other is still unavailable.
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Shuttle readiness dependencies
POWER needs CELL
HATCH needs KEY
LIFT needs POWER AND HATCH
WINCH needs POWER AND ROPE
ROPE needs WINCH
Starting conditions
Available now: CELL, KEY.
A result becomes available when its needs are met.
Which of LIFT, WINCH, ROPE becomes available?
Clue 6 of 6
Final
Use each result to recover the load for its leg. At each leg choose the cheapest road that can carry that load. A road with too little capacity is closed to this cargo. Report the five road IDs in journey order.
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Cargo key, one leg at a time
Leg 1 (Path): S-C-B-L-F=2; S-L-C-B-F=4
Leg 2 (Window): T=2; C=4
Leg 3 (Signal): WAIT-SEND=2; WAIT-TURN=4
Leg 4 (Record): NORTH=2; EAST=4
Leg 5 (Food): WINCH=2; LIFT=4
Roads: load capacity / travel cost
1: B 6/4 | A 3/2
2: C 3/2 | D 6/4
3: F 6/4 | E 3/2
4: G 3/2 | H 6/4
5: K 6/4 | J 3/2
Route rule
Choose the cheapest road carrying each load.
Report the five road IDs in leg order, with hyphens.
Start after: Path, Window, Signal, Record, Food
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