You asked
How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Scythebg-169786-en-1e
On your turn, do the following in sequential order: 1. Place your action token on a different section of your Player Mat than where it was on your previous turn [1]. (Note: The Rusviets faction may choose the same section as the previous turn(s), but this does not apply to Factory cards) [2]. 2. Take the top-row action on that section once (optional) [1]. 3. Take the bottom-row action on that section once (optional) [1]. 4. When taking an action, first pay the cost (all icons on exposed red boxes), then gain as much or as little of the benefit as you wish (exposed green boxes) [1][3]. 5. You may also complete an objective card during your turn [1]. You may reveal a completed objective before or after completing a top- or bottom-row action [4].
🔧 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 233 ms · ask 7732 ms · total 7975 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 7975 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 10, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "10 Scythe uses an ongoing action-selection mechanism (no rounds or phases). Players take turns one after another until a player places their 6th star on the board, immediately ending the game. On your turn, do the following in sequential order: Place your action token on a different section of your ", "headingPath": "RIVERWALK CARD · GAMEPLAY · TOP-ROW ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 31, "score": 0.048387, "snippet": "RESOURCES: All units-characters, mechs, & workers-can carry around resources (any number). TURNS AND PLAYER MATS: On your turn, you must choose a different section of your Player Mat than you did the previous turn. Take either the top-row action, the bottom-row action, or both (starting with the top", "headingPath": "HIGHLIGHTED RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 24, "score": 0.046452, "snippet": "As your character treks across Eastern Europa, they will encounter a number of local people and situations. Each encounter will present you with three options to determine how you want to interact with the people. The choice you make will often impact the peoples' view of you, represented in the gam", "headingPath": "ENCOUNTERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 25, "score": 0.044337, "snippet": "Each Factory card is the equivalent of a fifth section of your Player Mat (place it next to your Player Mat). USING FACTORY ACTIONS: The Factory card is treated as any other section on your Player Mat. On your turn, you may place your action token on the Factory card and take one or both actions (st", "headingPath": "FACTORY CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 26, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "26 Each player starts the game with 2 objective cards that are kept secret from the other players. You may reveal a completed objective card during your own turn before or after you complete a top- or bottom-row action. If you do, place 1 star token on the objective space of the Triumph Track and di", "headingPath": "FACTORY CARDS · O B J E C T I V E S · ALLIANCES AND BRIBES", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Both the Faction Mat and Player Mat indicate your starting cards and track positions in the boxes on the far right of each mat. POWER TOKEN: Place your power token ( ) on the indicated level of the Power Track (on the game board). Power is the commodity you will spend in combat. COMBAT CARDS: Draw t", "headingPath": "STARTING CARDS AND TRACK POSITIONS: · PLAYER MAT · CHARACTER · WORKERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "The top-row actions appear in a different order on each Player Mat, though each action is identical. The Player Mat visuals and the default costs and benefits explained in this section are based on the starting position of each Player Mat. Do one of the following ('/' means 'or'): MOVE: Move up to 2", "headingPath": "TOP-ROW ACTIONS · MOVE", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Your Faction Mat is where you keep your mechs, stars, and coins. Each Faction Mat also shows a special ability in the upper right corner. STARS: Place your 6 star tokens at the upper left near the faction emblem. Do not put tokens on top of the Recruit One-Time Bonuses (bottom left corner)-you'll ga", "headingPath": "FACTION MAT · QUICK-START CARD · RIVERWALK CARD", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "RIVERWALK CARD · GAMEPLAY · TOP-ROW ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 21, "quote": null, "headingPath": "F A C T I O N A B I L I T I E S", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 31, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HIGHLIGHTED RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}, {"page": 26, "quote": null, "headingPath": "FACTORY CARDS · O B J E C T I V E S · ALLIANCES AND BRIBES", "sharpsignalDocId": 114}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 114 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 114 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 3, 2026 05:12
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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | RIVERWALK CARD · GAMEPLAY · TOP-ROW ACTIONS | p.10 | 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | HIGHLIGHTED RULES | p.31 | 0.048387 (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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | ENCOUNTERS | p.24 | 0.046452 (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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | FACTORY CARDS | p.25 | 0.044337 (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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | FACTORY CARDS · O B J E C T I V E S · ALLIANCES AND BRIBES | p.26 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | STARTING CARDS AND TRACK POSITIONS: · PLAYER MAT · CHARACTER · WORKERS | p.7 | 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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | TOP-ROW ACTIONS · MOVE | p.11 | 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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | FACTION MAT · QUICK-START CARD · RIVERWALK CARD | p.9 | 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 |
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 Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | RIVERWALK CARD · GAMEPLAY · TOP-ROW ACTIONS | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | F A C T I O N A B I L I T I E S | p.21 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | HIGHLIGHTED RULES | p.31 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 114) | FACTORY CARDS · O B J E C T I V E S · ALLIANCES AND BRIBES | p.26 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 233 ms · first delta 6633 ms · total 7975 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 233 ms · ask 7732 ms · gateway work 7975 ms · total 7975 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4018
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 189
- tok/sec
- 147.7 tok/sec — 189 output tokens in 1.280 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 2), 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.