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How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Heartsbg-6887-en-1e
1. The player to the left of the dealer begins by leading any card they please [1]. 2. Other players must follow suit if they are able to do so [1][2]. 3. If a player has none of the suit that was led, they may discard any card they please [1]. 4. The highest card played, if it is of the suit led, wins the trick [1]. 5. The winner of the trick takes the cards and leads for the next trick [1]. 6. This process continues until all cards have been played [1].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 203 ms · ask 11012 ms · total 11229 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 11229 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 17, "score": 0.048412, "snippet": "The cards are dealt 3-2-3 at a time. The eldest hand leads any card he pleases, and the others must follow suit if they can. If all follow suit, the highest card played wins the trick, which is turned face down, and the cards in it are dead. The winner leads for the next trick, and so on. But if any", "headingPath": "ENFLÉ, OR SCHWELLEN.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.045831, "snippet": "Hearts — Foster's Complete Hoyle (1914) 4 of withdrawing their cards and substituting others, without penalty. Should the revoking player not discover his error in time, the hand must be played out, and if the revoke is detected and claimed the player in error must pay all the losses on that hand. S", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.045743, "snippet": "If there are more than seven candidates for play, two tables must be formed. Players draw from an outspread pack for the choice of seats and cards, the lowest cut having the first choice, and the others following in their order. The player cutting the lowest card takes the first deal, which afterwar", "headingPath": "HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.044776, "snippet": "12. Any one dealing out of turn may be stopped before the last card is dealt. After that the deal must stand, and the packs, if changed, must so remain. 13. It is a misdeal: If the dealer omits to have the pack cut, and the error is discovered before the last card is dealt; or if he deals a card inc", "headingPath": "THE LAWS OF HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "It is never advisable to attempt to take all thirteen hearts, because there are no Jacks; but there are many cases in which it is better deliberately to take three or four, in order to avoid the chance of taking six or eight. For an example of these tactics adopted by two players, see Illustrative H", "headingPath": "SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "B sees that if he passes this trick A will at once lead the ♢2, and he will take all the remaining hearts; so he takes these three and throws the lead to Y, who has no chance to injure him. 11th Trick. Z keeps two clubs, hoping that if Y gets in and leads clubs, B may discard a diamond instead of a ", "headingPath": "ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "There are two ways of settling at the end of the hand, each of which has its good points. SWEEPSTAKE HEARTS. After the hand has been played, each player announces the number of hearts he has taken in, and pays into the pool one counter for each. All thirteen hearts having been paid for, any player h", "headingPath": "HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "But 2 to 1 in his favour is a much better chance than the certainty, almost, that he will be loaded if a particular player is allowed the opportunity to lead a certain suit again. See B's play in Illustrative Hand No 2, and Y's in No 4. A player may have no desire to prevent any particular adversary", "headingPath": "SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 18, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THE LAWS OF HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 222 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 222 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 2, 2026 20:21
retrieval — what the search arm returned
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 Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | ENFLÉ, OR SCHWELLEN. | p.17 | 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 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | p.4 | 0.045831 (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 Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | HEARTS. | p.2 | 0.045743 (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 Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | THE LAWS OF HEARTS. | p.18 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY. | p.12 | 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 Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS. | p.15 | 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 Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | HEARTS. | p.3 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY. | p.11 | 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)) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | HEARTS. | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222) | THE LAWS OF HEARTS. | p.18 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 203 ms · first delta 10261 ms · total 11229 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 203 ms · ask 11012 ms · gateway work 11229 ms · total 11229 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4321
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 124
- tok/sec
- 136.4 tok/sec — 124 output tokens in 0.909 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 3s ago)
- 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 148), 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.