You asked
how does the game end?
Answered counted as answeredThe game ends at the conclusion of Round 4 [1][2]. After completing all end-of-round steps in Round 4 and activating yellow "Game End" powers [3][4], players use a scorepad to calculate their total points based on the following: * Points for each face-up bird card on the player mat [1][2] * Points for each bonus card [1][2] * Points for end-of-round goals [1][2] * Points for nectar (if playing with the Oceania Expansion) [1] * 1 point for each: egg on a bird card, food token cached on a bird card, and card tucked under a bird card [1][2] The player with the most points wins [1][2]. In the event of a tie, the player with the most unused food tokens wins; if they are still tied, the players share the victory [1][2].
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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
- timings
- search 101 ms · ask 4863 ms · total 4973 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 4973 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "score": 0.03125, "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}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030886, "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": 1, "score": 0.029052, "snippet": "If Round 4 is over, use game-end powers. game-end powers. Otherwise, pass the 18/07/2025 23:04 Remove all action cubes. . Remove all action cubes. emove all action cubes. iscard and replace all Discard and replace all . Discard and replace all Otherwise, pass the first-player token. ards in the bird", "headingPath": "Components", "sharpsignalDocId": 51}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.028324, "snippet": "When players have placed all their available action cubes (1 cube per turn), the round is over. At round end: Use round-end bird powers for birds on your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. If Round 4 is over, use game-end powers and then count final scores. Oth", "headingPath": "END OF THE ROUND left", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.028219, "snippet": "When all players have placed all of their action cubes, the round is over. Follow these steps in order: Use 1 of your action cubes to mark your score on the end-of-round goal. As a result, you will have 1 fewer action cube to use each round: Use round-end bird powers for birds on your player mat. Sc", "headingPath": "Round Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.027984, "snippet": "1. Use round end bird powers (if playing with European Expansion). 2. Discard any unused nectar. 3. Score end-of-round goal. 4. Remove all action cubes. Discard and replace all cards in the bird tray. If Round 4 is over, use game-end powers. Otherwise, pass the first-player token. WS_OE_Punchboard_r", "headingPath": "End of Round Reference OE", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.0272, "snippet": "The game ends at the conclusion of Round 4. 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 goal board) 1 point for each: » egg on a b", "headingPath": "Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.027052, "snippet": "Eggs are laid after scoring the round-end goal for Round 4. | | Red-Backed Fairywren | GAME END: Lay 1 on each of your birds with a nest, including this one. | This bird lays eggs only on birds with the nest icon. Eggs are laid after scoring the round-end goal for Round 4. | | Black Swan Splendid Fa", "headingPath": "Egg-Laying Powers", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End (Yellow):", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
- gate not evaluated for this ruling (boost, supersedence, and wrench all off at ask time), and the base-rulebook arm went unrecorded for the same reason — the wrench that would have stored it was off; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=false, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=false
- 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
- Oct 9, 2026 03:21
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48) | GAME PLAY | p.2 | 0.03125 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Game End and Scoring | p.5 | 0.030886 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion (corpus doc 51) | Components | p.1 | 0.029052 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | END OF THE ROUND left | p.14 | 0.028324 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Round Structure | p.4 | 0.028219 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48) | End of Round Reference OE | p.1 | 0.027984 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Game End and Scoring | p.5 | 0.0272 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48) | Egg-Laying Powers | p.7 | 0.027052 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Game End and Scoring | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Game End and Scoring | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Game End (Yellow): | p.13 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48) | GAME PLAY | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 101 ms · first delta n/a · total 4973 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 101 ms · ask 4863 ms · gateway work 4973 ms · total 4973 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 32s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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.