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how do i break i tie?
Answered counted as answeredDepending on which scoring method is being used, there are different rules for ties: * **Majority Goals (Rankings 1st, 2nd, and 3rd):** If players tie, both cubes are placed on the tied place, and the next place is not awarded [1][2]. Points are calculated by adding the points for the tied place and the next place(s), then dividing by the number of players who tied and rounding down (4th place scores 0) [1][2]. * **Points-per-item Goals (Rankings 5-4-3-2-1-0):** If two players tie for 1st place, each gets the sum of the points for 1st and 2nd place divided by the number of players (rounded down), and the 2nd place is not awarded to another player [3][4]. * **"Ties are friendly":** In some instances, if two players tie for first place, both get full points and the second place remains available [5]. In other cases, if there is a tie, both players get the points, and the first-player token goes to the player who did not have it that round [6].
Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings
🔧 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 113 ms · ask 5635 ms · total 5755 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 5755 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "score": 0.016393, "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": 4, "score": 0.016129, "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": 14, "score": 0.015873, "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": 1, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "Round end bird powers. Score end-of-round goal. Remove all action cubes. Discard and replace all cards on the bird tray. Rotate first-player token clockwise. EE EE in personal supply EE in one row 5/5/19 1:25 PM 5/5/19 1:25 PM", "headingPath": "End of Round Reference", "sharpsignalDocId": 47}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Place 1 action cube to mark your score on the end-of-round goal: If playing with majority goals and players tie, add the values of the tied and next places and divide by number of players, rounded down. 4th place scores 0. If playing with points-per-item", "headingPath": "End of the Round", "sharpsignalDocId": 46}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.015152, "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", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.014925, "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": 14, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "At the end of the round, players will each place a player cube to score, as in the base game (page 1 5). Points are only awarded to the player who contributes the most to each endof-round goal: If you place your token here instead, you may remove it on your turn to reset the birdfeeder or the bird t", "headingPath": "Duet Mode End of Round", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Green: Majority of the targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Green: Majority of the targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Blue: One point per targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Blue: One point per targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Oceania:", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Duet Mode End of Round", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- 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 11, 2026 11:37
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) | End of Round Reference OE | p.1 | 0.016393 (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) | Round Structure | p.4 | 0.016129 (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 — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | END OF THE ROUND left | p.14 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion (corpus doc 47) | End of Round Reference | p.1 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 226 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Appendix (corpus doc 46) | End of the Round | p.2 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | END OF THE ROUND | p.11 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Game End and Scoring | p.5 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode End of Round | p.14 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and 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) | Green: Majority of the targeted item | p.15 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Green: Majority of the targeted item | p.11 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Blue: One point per targeted item | p.11 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Blue: One point per targeted item | p.15 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Oceania: | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode End of Round | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 113 ms · first delta n/a · total 5755 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 113 ms · ask 5635 ms · gateway work 5755 ms · total 5755 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 28s 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.