You asked
what are the steps in taking my turn?
Answered counted as answeredDuring your turn, you must perform the following actions in order [1]: 1. **Select a Tile and Fish:** Choose a Fish from the Pool and a Coral or Sealife Tile that pairs with that Fish [2]. (Note: You may refresh a pool if it contains 4 or more items of the same color before making your selection [2]). 2. **Move an Incomplete Fish (Optional):** At any point during your turn, you may spend 2 Seashells to move an Incomplete Fish to a different Bubble as a Free Action [3]. This must follow placement rules: the Fish must be on a bubble surrounding an existing Tile, and only one Fish is allowed per Bubble [3]. 3. **Complete Tiles:** If any Tile meets its completion conditions (including those met after moving a Fish), you must complete that Tile before the end of your turn [4][5][3]. Completing a Tile involves flipping it to its back side and placing a gained Seashell in the corresponding space on your Ocean Board [5]. 4. **Refill Pools:** At the end of your turn, refill the empty spots in the Pools so that there are 5 Coral Tiles, 5 Sealife Tiles, and 5 Fish available before the next player takes their turn [6].
🔧 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 106 ms · ask 5121 ms · total 5236 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 5236 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
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- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GOAL OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1. SELECT 1 TILE AND 1 FISH FROM THE POOL", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2. PLACE THE SELECTED TILE AND FISH IN YOUR OCEAN", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3. IF ANY TILE MEETS ITS CONDITION, COMPLETE AND GAIN A SEASHELL", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH", "sharpsignalDocId": 64}]
- 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 14, 2026 10:20
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 Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | GOAL OF THE GAME | p.4 | 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 124 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH | 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)) | 231 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH | p.10 | 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 Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | 3. IF ANY TILE MEETS ITS CONDITION, COMPLETE AND GAIN A SEASHELL | p.5 | 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) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | 2. PLACE THE SELECTED TILE AND FISH IN YOUR OCEAN | p.4 | 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) | 157 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | SCORING | p.13 | 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 Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | END OF THE GAME | p.10 | 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 Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | GAME SETUP | p.12 | 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) | 132 |
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 Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | GOAL OF THE GAME | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | 1. SELECT 1 TILE AND 1 FISH FROM THE POOL | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | 2. PLACE THE SELECTED TILE AND FISH IN YOUR OCEAN | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | 3. IF ANY TILE MEETS ITS CONDITION, COMPLETE AND GAIN A SEASHELL | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Shallow Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 64) | SPEND 2 SEASHELLS TO MOVE AN INCOMPLETE FISH | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 106 ms · first delta n/a · total 5236 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 106 ms · ask 5121 ms · gateway work 5236 ms · total 5236 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s 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
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 11), 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.