Ruling — Hearts

You asked

What happens if I shoot the moon?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Heartsbg-6887-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook · p.15 · ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.

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

RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook · p.18 · THE LAWS OF HEARTS.

20. If a player leads out of turn, a suit may be called from him when it is next his proper turn to lead. This penalty can be enforced only by the player on his right. If he has none of the suit called, or if all have played to the false lead, no penalty can be enforced. If all have not played to th

RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook · p.14 · ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.

His only dangerous card, the ♡ J, will go on the next round of spades, which must be led again in the next two or three tricks. No. 3. Howell's Settling. | T | No. 4. Auction Hearts. Z dealt, and A leads for | R | A, the successful first trick. | I | bidder, names Hearts. ---------------------------

RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook · p.10 · SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.

Had not A been entirely safe in diamonds the stratagem would have succeeded. In following suit it is important to keep count of the cards played, in order to avoid the unwitting lead of a suit of which the other players have none. The suits that need close watching are those in which you have nothin

RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook · p.14 ·

His only dangerous card, the ♡ J, will go on the next round of spades, which must be led again in the next two or three tricks. No. 3. Howell’s Settling. | T | No. 4. Auction Hearts. Z dealt, and A leads for | R | A, the successful first trick. | I | bidder, names Hearts. ---------------------------

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 246 ms · ask 10057 ms · total 10314 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10314 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 15, "score": 0.032787, "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": 18, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "20. If a player leads out of turn, a suit may be called from him when it is next his proper turn to lead. This penalty can be enforced only by the player on his right. If he has none of the suit called, or if all have played to the false lead, no penalty can be enforced. If all have not played to th", "headingPath": "THE LAWS OF HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "His only dangerous card, the ♡ J, will go on the next round of spades, which must be led again in the next two or three tricks. No. 3. Howell's Settling. | T | No. 4. Auction Hearts. Z dealt, and A leads for | R | A, the successful first trick. | I | bidder, names Hearts. ---------------------------", "headingPath": "ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Had not A been entirely safe in diamonds the stratagem would have succeeded. In following suit it is important to keep count of the cards played, in order to avoid the unwitting lead of a suit of which the other players have none. The suits that need close watching are those in which you have nothin", "headingPath": "SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "His only dangerous card, the ♡ J, will go on the next round of spades, which must be led again in the next two or three tricks. No. 3. Howell’s Settling. | T | No. 4. Auction Hearts. Z dealt, and A leads for | R | A, the successful first trick. | I | bidder, names Hearts. ---------------------------", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "With two men still to bid, a good player would probably make himself safe by shutting out A's bid, probably offering 26. Let us suppose B then to examine his hand, finding ♡ J 10; ♣ Q 9 8 7; ♢ A 10 9; ♠ 10 9 8 2. Being unsafe in everything, he passes, and practically submits to his fate, his only ho", "headingPath": "SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Any player failing to follow suit, when able to do so, may amend his error if he discovers his mistake before the trick in which it occurs has been turned and quitted. The card played in error then becomes an exposed card. Those who have played after him have the privilege of withdrawing their cards", "headingPath": "HEARTS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 222}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.029412, "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}]
citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): 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: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 20:22

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)	ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.	p.15	0.032787 (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)	THE LAWS OF HEARTS.	p.18	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
#3	RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222)	ILLUSTRATIVE HANDS.	p.14	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
#4	RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222)	SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.	p.10	0.03125 (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)		p.14	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
#6	RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222)	SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY.	p.13	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
#7	RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222)	HEARTS.	p.3	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
#8	RULEBOOK Hearts — Rulebook (corpus doc 222)	THE LAWS OF HEARTS.	p.18	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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 246 ms · first delta 10211 ms · total 10314 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 246 ms · ask 10057 ms · gateway work 10314 ms · total 10314 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4657
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 136.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.066 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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.