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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Catan: Cities & Knightsbg-926-en-1e

Each turn consists of three phases, which occur in this order [1][2]: 1. Roll Dice phase: Roll all 3 dice, resolving the event die before resolving the production dice [1][2]. You may only play an Alchemy card before rolling the dice [1][2]. If the event die shows a ship icon, move the barbarian ship along the barbarian track one space closer to the shore [2]. If the event die shows a city improvement icon, players may draw progress cards based on their position on the city improvement track [2]. 2. Production phase: (No specific steps provided for this phase) [1][2]. 3. Action phase: You may take actions as often as you like and in any order, as long as you have the resources to do so [3]. You may play any number of progress cards during this phase, except for the Alchemy card (which must be played before rolling) and Victory Point cards (which must be played immediately) [4]. If you have not won after finishing the Action phase, pass the dice to the player on your left [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook · p.6 · Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).

[2] RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook · p.6 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook · p.7 · COLLECT RESOURCES · RESOLVE A 7 · 1. DISCARD RESOURCES · 2. ACTIVATE THE ROBBER · ACTION PHASE · Trading Commodities · …

[4] RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook · p.10 · Displace a Knight · Chase Away the Robber · Progress Cards

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🔧 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 242 ms · ask 8999 ms · total 9250 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9250 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of)
layering — route: not layered — one pooled read, because one book was in scope and there is nothing to split
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 20:43

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 TWO-ARM fuse (full-text + vector), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.03279 — both arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). Measured healthy band on this fuse: 0.016–0.033. 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 Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).	p.6	0.030214 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)		p.6	0.029911 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#3	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	VICTORY POINT: PRINTING (1x) · PROGRESS CARDS: POLITICS Each player must give you 1 card of that type · MERCHANT FLEET (2x) · RESOURCE MONOPOLY (4x) · TRADE MONOPOLY (2x) · DIPLOMACY (2x) · …	p.15	0.029851 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#4	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	COMBINING WITH CATAN - SEAFARERS EXPANSION™	p.12	0.029828 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#5	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	MEDICINE (2x) · Play immediately into your player area, even if it is PROGRESS CARDS: TRADE · COMMERCIAL HARBOR (2x) · GUILD DUES (2x) · MERCHANT (6x) · MINING (2x) · …	p.14	0.02967 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#6	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Draw Progress Cards	p.6	0.028665 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#7	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Knights · Recruit a Knight · Promote a Knight · Activate a Knight · Knight Actions	p.9	0.028125 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#8	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	COMBINING WITH CATAN - SEAFARERS EXPANSION™	p.12	0.027778 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Collect Your Starting Resources · TURN OVERVIEW · ROLL DICE PHASE · PLAY A PROGRESS CARD Basic City · ROLL THE DICE · Move the Barbarian Ship to mighty knights (Level 3).	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	COLLECT RESOURCES · RESOLVE A 7 · 1. DISCARD RESOURCES · 2. ACTIVATE THE ROBBER · ACTION PHASE · Trading Commodities · …	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Catan: Cities & Knights — Rulebook (corpus doc 217)	Displace a Knight · Chase Away the Robber · Progress Cards	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 242 ms · first delta 7480 ms · total 9250 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 242 ms · ask 8999 ms · gateway work 9250 ms · total 9250 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3869
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 233
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 233 output tokens in 1.707 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 1), 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.