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When does the game end?
Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstainAsked with: Dunebg-283355-en-1e
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This question didn't get an answer just now — but Dune has been asked something like it before. The corpus may have changed since, so check the date and the answerer on each one before you rule from it.
The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.
Bidding for Treachery Cards continues until all cards available for bid have been auctioned off or a card is not bid on by anyone. If a card is passed on by everyone, all remaining cards are returned to the top of the Treachery Deck and the Bidding Phase is over.
Wherever two or more players' forces occupy the same territory, battles must occur between those players. Battles continue until just one player's forces or no forces remain in all territories on the map with two exceptions: Players cannot battle one another in a territory if their forces are separa
Once a Shai-Hulud (sandworm) card is turned over on the second or subsequent turns, at the end of the Spice Blow and NEXUS Phase, a Nexus occurs. During a Nexus, all players have a chance to make, join or break Alliances. Once players have had a chance to do so, play continues.
The winning player loses only the number of forces they dialed on the Battle Wheel. These forces are placed in the Tleilaxu Tanks. The winning player may also keep or discard any of the cards they played.
Each faction has a set of unique economic, military, strategic, or treacherous advantages. The object of the game is to use these advantages to gain control of Dune. The winner is the First Player to occupy at least 3 strongholds with at least one of their forces during the Mentat Pause Phase. A pla
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 201 ms · ask 6962 ms · total 7173 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 7173 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 8, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Bidding for Treachery Cards continues until all cards available for bid have been auctioned off or a card is not bid on by anyone. If a card is passed on by everyone, all remaining cards are returned to the top of the Treachery Deck and the Bidding Phase is over.", "headingPath": "End of Bidding", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Wherever two or more players' forces occupy the same territory, battles must occur between those players. Battles continue until just one player's forces or no forces remain in all territories on the map with two exceptions: Players cannot battle one another in a territory if their forces are separa", "headingPath": "Battle Determination", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Once a Shai-Hulud (sandworm) card is turned over on the second or subsequent turns, at the end of the Spice Blow and NEXUS Phase, a Nexus occurs. During a Nexus, all players have a chance to make, join or break Alliances. Once players have had a chance to do so, play continues.", "headingPath": "ALLIANCES (NEXUS)", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The winning player loses only the number of forces they dialed on the Battle Wheel. These forces are placed in the Tleilaxu Tanks. The winning player may also keep or discard any of the cards they played.", "headingPath": "Winning", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Each faction has a set of unique economic, military, strategic, or treacherous advantages. The object of the game is to use these advantages to gain control of Dune. The winner is the First Player to occupy at least 3 strongholds with at least one of their forces during the Mentat Pause Phase. A pla", "headingPath": "OBJECT OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Factions either declare a winner (or winners) or take some time to evaluate their positions on the map and then move the Turn Counter to the next position on the Turn Track to begin the next turn.", "headingPath": "9. Mentat Pause Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Allied players' forces are considered the same for the purposes of victory. If together their joint forces hold 4 strongholds in the Mentat Pause Phase, they have jointly won the game.", "headingPath": "Winning", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.029572, "snippet": "If both leaders are traitors, each a traitor for the opponent, both players' forces in the territory, their cards played, and their leaders, are lost. Neither player gets any spice. Any player with forces in a sector of a territory in which there is spice may now collect that spice. This is done by ", "headingPath": "Two Traitors", "sharpsignalDocId": 104}]
- citations (raw)
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- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 104 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 104 boosted
- answered-before recall
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past answered rulings were found and offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
- ruling 742 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
- ruling 260 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
- debug row retained until
- Nov 3, 2026 17:39
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 |
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| #1 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | End of Bidding | p.8 | 0.032787 (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)) | 263 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | Battle Determination | p.10 | 0.032258 (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 Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | ALLIANCES (NEXUS) | p.12 | 0.031746 (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)) | 278 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | Winning | p.11 | 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)) | 204 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | OBJECT OF THE GAME | p.6 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | 9. Mentat Pause Phase | p.7 | 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)) | 196 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | Winning | p.12 | 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)) | 184 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Dune — Rulebook (corpus doc 104) | Two Traitors | p.11 | 0.029572 (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.
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generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 201 ms · first delta 7054 ms · total 7173 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 201 ms · ask 6962 ms · gateway work 7173 ms · total 7173 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 1708
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 9
- tok/sec
- 136.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.066 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s 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
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- abstain rationale
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I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped
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 35), 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.