Ruling — Wingspan

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When does the game end?

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Asked with: Wingspanbg-266192-en-1e

The game ends at the conclusion of Round 4 [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.5 · Game End and Scoring

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🔧 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 189 ms · ask 9714 ms · total 9913 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9913 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 5, "score": 0.043442, "snippet": "When all players have placed all of their action cubes, the round is over. Follow these steps in order: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and restock the bird tray with cards fro", "headingPath": "Round Structure · Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.042682, "snippet": "When players have placed all their available action cubes (1 cube per turn), the round is over. At round end: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and replenish them. Rotate the fir", "headingPath": "END OF THE ROUND · Scoring End-of-Round Goals · Green: Majority of the targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.039284, "snippet": "This method uses the side of the goal board that has spaces labeled 5-4-3-2-1-0 next to the space for each goal. For example, when using the goal that scores 5, 2, or 1 points, if two players tie for 1st place, each gets 3 points (5 + 2 divided by 2 players, rounded down). Do not award 2nd place to ", "headingPath": "Blue: One point per targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.03317, "snippet": "There is no limit on how many food tokens you can have by your mat or on your birds (some bird cards allow you to cache food tokens on them until the end of the game), nor is there a limit on food tokens in the supply. In the unlikely event that any type of food token is unavailable in the supply, u", "headingPath": "Managing food tokens", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.031778, "snippet": "The game ends at the conclusion of Round 4. After activating yellow 'Game End' powers, use the scorepad to add together the following: Points for each face-up bird card on your player mat (printed on the cards) Points for each bonus card (printed on the cards) Points for end-of-round goals (shown on", "headingPath": "Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030622, "snippet": "These powers activate only once, at the end of the game. Activate these powers after completing all end-of-round steps in round 4. If you have more than one bird with a yellow 'Game End' power, you may activate them in any order. These actions do not trigger birds with pink 'Once Between Turns' powe", "headingPath": "Game End (Yellow):", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03009, "snippet": "Some birds have yellow powers that activate only once, at the end of the game. Activate these powers after completing all end-of-round steps. If you have more than one bird with a 'game end' power, you may activate them in any order. These birds do not trigger birds with pink 'once between turns' po", "headingPath": "Game End Powers", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029911, "snippet": "When playing with the Oceania Expansion the general structure of game play is the same as in the base game, but there is one additional step and one note about end of game (see bold). At the end of each round: Use 'round end' bird powers, if playing with European Expansion. Discard any unused nectar", "headingPath": "GAME PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 198 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 198 boosted
answered-before recall: 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 05:13

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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Round Structure · Game End and Scoring	p.5	0.043442 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	END OF THE ROUND · Scoring End-of-Round Goals · Green: Majority of the targeted item	p.11	0.042682 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Blue: One point per targeted item	p.11	0.039284 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Managing food tokens	p.7	0.03317 (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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Game End and Scoring	p.5	0.031778 (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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Game End (Yellow):	p.13	0.030622 (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 Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48)	Game End Powers	p.3	0.03009 (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 Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48)	GAME PLAY	p.2	0.029911 (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
[1]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Game End and Scoring	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 189 ms · first delta 9771 ms · total 9913 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 189 ms · ask 9714 ms · gateway work 9913 ms · total 9913 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1478
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 14
tok/sec: 138.6 tok/sec — 14 output tokens in 0.101 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 50s 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

6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against

anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4

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.