Ruling — Pandemic

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Pandemicbg-30549-en-1e · Pandemic: On the Brinkbg-40849-en-1e

1. Perform up to 4 actions [1]. (Note: The Generalist may do up to 5 actions [2], and the Bio-Terrorist may take up to 2 actions, plus 1 Drive/Ferry action [3]). 2. Draw 2 cards [4]. 3. Resolve any epidemics [4]. 4. Discard to 7 cards [4]. 5. Infect cities [4]. After infecting cities and discarding Infection cards, your turn is over [5].

[1] RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook · p.4 · ACTIONS · Drive / Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · Shuttle Flight CITY · Build a Research Station · …

[2] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook · p.8 · BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …

[3] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook · p.6 · BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …

[4] RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook · p.5 ·

[5] RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook · p.7 · OUTBREAKS · TURN END · EVENT CARDS

🔧 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 260 ms · ask 10855 ms · total 11125 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 11125 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 8, "score": 0.048147, "snippet": "Each player has a role with special abilities to improve your team's chances. The Contingency Planner may, as an action, take an Event card from anywhere in the Player Discard Pile and place it on his Role card. Only 1 Event card can be on his role card at a time. It does not count against his hand ", "headingPath": "ROLES · CONTINGENCY PLANNER · DISPATCHER · MEDIC · COMMONLY OVERLOOKED RULES · OPERATIONS EXPERT", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.045445, "snippet": "You may do up to 4 actions each turn. Select any combination of the actions listed below. You may do the same action several times, each time counting as 1 action. Your role's special abilities may change how an action is done. Some actions involve discarding a card from your hand; all these discard", "headingPath": "ACTIONS · Drive / Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · Shuttle Flight CITY · Build a Research Station · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.044182, "snippet": "5 Play Example: On the first turn, Ben does 4 actions: (1) Drive to Chicago (from Atlanta), (2) Drive to San Francisco, (3) Treat Disease in San Francisco, removing a blue disease cube there, and (4) Treat Disease in San Francisco again, removing a second blue disease cube. Ben has finished the Acti", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.041611, "snippet": "rSBurg lgierS tehran Play Example: On the first turn, Ben does 4 actions: (1) Drive to Chicago (from Atlanta), (2) Drive to San Francisco, (3) Treat Disease in San Francisco, removing a blue disease cube there, and (4) Treat Disease in San Francisco again, removing a second blue disease cube. Baghda", "headingPath": "Discover a Cure", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031498, "snippet": "On his turn, the Bio-Terrorist may take up to 2 actions, plus 1 Drive/Ferry action. This optional Drive/Ferry action may be done before, after, or between his other 2 actions. As the Bio-Terrorist, record your actions on your Location sheet to track your current location. Suggested notation is provi", "headingPath": "BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030331, "snippet": "When a disease outbreak occurs, move the outbreaks marker forward 1 space on the Outbreaks Track. Then, place 1 cube of the disease color on every city connected to the city. If any of them already has 3 cubes of the disease color, do not place a 4 th cube in those cities. Instead, in each of them, ", "headingPath": "OUTBREAKS · TURN END · EVENT CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030159, "snippet": "The Bio-Terrorist moves secretly about the board, keeping track of his actions on his Location sheet. Whenever the Bio-Terrorist is in the same city as other player(s), the Bio-Terrorist is spotted and puts his pawn on the board. If he (or another player) then moves so that the Bio-Terrorist is not ", "headingPath": "Bio-Terrorist Secrecy · Capturing the Bio-Terrorist · 2. Fold Line · 3. Action Log", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030018, "snippet": "mobilE hospiTal Play any time. Not an action. EVENT selecT a playeR. ThIs playeR may swap hIs Role caRd wITh any one of The unused Roles. NEw assigNmENT Play any time. Not an action. EVENT Take 2 exTRa acTIons ThIs TuRn. borrowEd TimE Play any time. Not an action. EVENT rE-ExamiNEd rEsEarCh selecT a", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ACTIONS · Drive / Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · Shuttle Flight CITY · Build a Research Station · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OUTBREAKS · TURN END · EVENT CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 174 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 174 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 20:23

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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	ROLES · CONTINGENCY PLANNER · DISPATCHER · MEDIC · COMMONLY OVERLOOKED RULES · OPERATIONS EXPERT	p.8	0.048147 (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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	ACTIONS · Drive / Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · Shuttle Flight CITY · Build a Research Station · …	p.4	0.045445 (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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)		p.5	0.044182 (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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	Discover a Cure	p.5	0.041611 (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 Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219)	BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …	p.6	0.031498 (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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	OUTBREAKS · TURN END · EVENT CARDS	p.7	0.030331 (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 Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219)	Bio-Terrorist Secrecy · Capturing the Bio-Terrorist · 2. Fold Line · 3. Action Log	p.5	0.030159 (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 Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219)		p.1	0.030018 (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 Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	ACTIONS · Drive / Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · Shuttle Flight CITY · Build a Research Station · …	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219)	BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219)	BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174)	OUTBREAKS · TURN END · EVENT CARDS	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 260 ms · first delta 10334 ms · total 11125 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 260 ms · ask 10855 ms · gateway work 11125 ms · total 11125 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4795
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 108
tok/sec: 145.9 tok/sec — 108 output tokens in 0.740 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s 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

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 43), 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.