RIght, I understand what a tie is, but they aren’t used in the game. You don’t compare your roll to the room number. If you look at the ‘Making a Roll’ section, you’ll see the way the dice rolls work is by checking what the highest result in your roll is. If your highest result was a 1-3, you fail. If your highest is 4-5, it’s a partial success which means the rat gains a wound, but succeeds. This lets you remove one obstacle or reduce a threat. If you get a 6, that is a success. That means the rat succeeds and you get to remove one obstacle or reduce a threat, then pick a bonus: • Remove an extra obstacle or reduce a threat. • Gain a resource. • Reduce notoriety by 1.
Just to clarify, you don’t compare your rolls against any room or threat, you simply roll the dice and look at the table in the making a roll section. The value of the threat determines how many times you’ll need to ‘reduce’ the threat before it is dealt with permanently, and the value of a room determines how many obstacles you need to overcome.
Hope that helps!