Ruling — Everdell

You asked

How do I place an adornment on the river?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Everdellbg-199792-en-1e · Everdell: Pearlbrookbg-259996-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP

Follow the setup rules for the normal game with these additions: Place the River board to the side of main board. Place the pearl tokens on the Shoal spat on the board. Place the Wonder boards beneath the Ever Tree, covering the costs for the basic Events (the basic Events will not be used with this

RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook · p.6 · SETUP

1) Place the board on the table. Place the Ever Tree on the stump at the top of the board. Place the twigs, resin, pebbles, and berries in piles along the bank of the river. Place the point tokens and 'occupied takens beside the board, Shuffle the Forest cards and place them on the forest clearings.

RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook · p.7 · Rugwort returns! · SETUP · GAMEPLAY

You succeeded in chasing away that old Rapscallion before, and Everdell enjoyed. atime of peace and tranquility. However, tales ofthe new riches and beauty found in Pearlbrook have lured him out from his dark haunts, and once again he is tyingto claim Everdell for himself. You must stop him! 'When p

RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook · p.21 · CONSTRUCTIONS,

Post Office: When you place a worker here, give an. 'opponent 2 cards from your hand and then diseard any amount of cards fromyourhand that youwant You imustbe abe to ghe the cards in order to place aworker here. Then drave cards from the deck up to your hand limit. ou gain I point token fan opponen

RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook · p.9 · Forest LOCATIONS · EVENTS · HAVEN · JourNey

You may place a worker on any Destination eard in your city, or on a Destination card in another ety that has an BEDE symbol, in which case the owner ofthe Destination gains 1 point token from the supply. Gnd Tor Bosna ane 'You may also place 1 of your workers on any remaining basic Event or special

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🔧 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 279 ms · ask 6254 ms · total 6542 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6542 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 113 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 113 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 20:32

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 Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221)	SETUP	p.4	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))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	SETUP	p.6	0.031778 (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 Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221)	Rugwort returns! · SETUP · GAMEPLAY	p.7	0.031281 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	CONSTRUCTIONS,	p.21	0.030835 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	Forest LOCATIONS · EVENTS · HAVEN · JourNey	p.9	0.030366 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	SETUP · Forest LOCATIONS	p.8	0.029911 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	OVERVIEW	p.3	0.029469 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 113)	YEAR k 'RUGWORT THE RASCAL	p.16	0.02904 (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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 279 ms · first delta 6405 ms · total 6542 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 279 ms · ask 6254 ms · gateway work 6542 ms · total 6542 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3071
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 150.0 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.060 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s 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: 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 10), 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.