Ruling — Bohnanza

You asked

When can I sell a field?

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

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

RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.8 · The Bean duel for 2 players

The bean duel with two players uses the same rules as the variant for three players with the following changes: Remove the Garden Beans and the Cocoa Beans from the game. A player may only sell beans from his bean fields on his turn. The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted for the first time.

RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.8 · 2. Plant bean cards & discard

After planting one or two cards in his bean fields (as in the normal game), the player may discard one card from anywhere in his hand face up on the discard pile.

RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.4 · Phase 2: Turn Over and Trade Bean Cards

Turn over the top two cards from the draw pile and put them next to it face-up for all players to see. The turned-over cards belong to you: You can plant them in your fields or use them to trade with the other players. Example #1: Natalie has turned over a Soy Bean and a Blue Bean. She keeps the Blu

RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.8 · 1. Plant or discard offered bean cards

The player may plant or discard the bean cards his opponent left as an offer in step 3 of his turn. This is omitted by the starting player on his first turn.

RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.8 · 3. Draw, plant, and offer beans

The active player draws the three topmost cards from the draw deck and puts them face up on the table so both players can see them. If the topmost card on the discard pile matches any of the cards just drawn, the player adds it to them. He does the same with the new topmost card from the discard pil

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
timings: search 88 ms · ask 4328 ms · total 4427 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4427 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): 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: 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: Oct 14, 2026 16:00

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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The Bean duel for 2 players	p.8	0.030886 (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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	2. Plant bean cards & discard	p.8	0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	162
#3	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 2: Turn Over and Trade Bean Cards	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
#4	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	1. Plant or discard offered bean cards	p.8	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)	157
#5	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	3. Draw, plant, and offer beans	p.8	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
#6	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand	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)	291
#7	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand	p.3	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
#8	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The end of The Game	p.6	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

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generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 88 ms · first delta n/a · total 4427 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 88 ms · ask 4328 ms · gateway work 4427 ms · total 4427 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: the answerer offered no rationale text with this refusal (or the ruling predates the abstain_rationale column, V41)

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 13), 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.