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When does the game end?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Pandemic: On the Brinkbg-40849-en-1e
The game ends based on the specific challenge being played: **Mutation Challenge** * Players win immediately if they cure all 5 diseases or cure the 4 other diseases and have no purple disease cubes on the board [1]. * Players lose if they cannot place the number of purple cubes actually needed on the board [1]. **Bio-Terrorist Challenge** * Non-Terrorist players win if they either cure all 5 diseases or cure the 4 standard diseases and have no purple disease cubes on the board [2]. * Players lose (and the Bio-Terrorist wins) if they cannot place the number of purple cubes actually needed on the board [2]. * The Bio-Terrorist wins if the players lose and there is at least 1 purple cube on the board [2]. * Everyone loses if the players lose and there are no purple cubes on the board [2]. * The Bio-Terrorist loses (and is out of the game) if the players ever eradicate the purple disease [2]. **Virulent Strain Challenge** * This challenge is won or lost normally, as in the base game [3][4].
🔧 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 268 ms · ask 8861 ms · total 9138 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 9138 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 7, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "The non-Terrorist players win if they either cure all 5 diseases or cure the 4 standard diseases and have no purple disease cubes on the board. Like any other disease, if you cannot place the number of purple cubes actually needed on the board, the players lose (and the Bio-Terrorist wins). There ar", "headingPath": "Winning and Losing final size marks", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "Winning and Losing The non-Terrorist players win if they either cure all 5 diseases or cure the 4 standard diseases and have no purple disease cubes on the board. Like any other disease, if you cannot place the number of purple cubes actually needed on the board, the players lose (and the Bio-Terror", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015873, "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}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "When Discovering a Cure for the purple disease, discard 5 City cards in any mix of colors, with at least 1 of them a city that has 1 or more purple cubes on it. When a Scientist or Field Operative turns in fewer City cards, at least 1 of them must be a city with 1 or more purple cubes on it. If the ", "headingPath": "Curing the Purple Disease · Winning or Losing", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Set up the game normally (separating the Player cards into 7 piles before shuffling an Epidemic card into each pile). When you draw the 7 th Epidemic, the infection rate remains at 4 (the track maximum). Warning: Not for the faint of heart... Each challenge adds some difficulty, so you may wish to t", "headingPath": "Shuffle · Adding Challenges", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "PeterSBurg MoS cow iStanB ul Baghdad tehran karachi MuMBai chennai delhi kolkata Bangkok Jakarta ho chi Minh citY Manila taiP ei hong kong Shanghai BeiJ ing Seoul tokY o oSaka SYdneY MiaM i Bogot á 1.Do 4 actions 2.Draw 2 cards •Resolve any epidemics •Discard to 7 cards 3.Infect cities tokYo SYdneY ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "During setup, deal a Role card to the 5th player and 2 Player cards (as with 4 players) to each player. Legendary Game Feeling invincible? Try the Legendary difficulty level. Use the Epidemic card in this expansion to play with 7 Epidemic cards. Play any time. Not an action. EVENT Take 2 exTRa acTIo", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "PeterSBurg MoS cow iStanB ul Baghdad tehran karachi MuMBai chennai delhi kolkata Bangkok Jakarta ho chi Minh citY Manila taiP ei hong kong Shanghai BeiJ ing Seoul tokY o oSaka SYdneY MiaM i Bogot á 1.Do 4 actions 2.Draw 2 cards •Resolve any epidemics •Discard to 7 cards 3.Infect cities tokYo SYdneY ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "VIRULENT STRAIN CHALLENGE · Setup · Prepare the Player Deck · Determining the Virulent Strain · Virulent Strain Epidemic Effects · Winning and Losing · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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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
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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 20:45
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 Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | Winning and Losing final size marks | p.7 | 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.7 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) | 300 | |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.1 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 | |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | Curing the Purple Disease · Winning or Losing | p.4 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | Shuffle · Adding Challenges | p.2 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.1 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 | |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.2 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 | |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.7 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.4 | no quote on the wire | |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.7 | no quote on the wire | |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.3 | no quote on the wire | |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | VIRULENT STRAIN CHALLENGE · Setup · Prepare the Player Deck · Determining the Virulent Strain · Virulent Strain Epidemic Effects · Winning and Losing · … | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 268 ms · first delta 7223 ms · total 9138 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 268 ms · ask 8861 ms · gateway work 9138 ms · total 9138 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 5423
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 252
- tok/sec
- 136.4 tok/sec — 252 output tokens in 1.847 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s 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.