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What does a badlands token do?
Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain 0 of 3 books answeredAsked with: Carcassonnebg-822-en-1e · Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedralsbg-4956-en-1e · Carcassonne: Traders & Buildersbg-5405-en-1e
Read together first; no grounded answer, so each book was read on its own.
Carcassonnebg-822-en-1e Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.
The tile you have just drawn could complete the road on the bottom-left tile, but because there is already a meeple on that road, you would not be able to place a meeple on it. Instead, you place the tile so that it matches up with the landscape, but does not connect to that road. You would like to
In Carcassonne , you place down land tiles to create long roads, build large cities, visit monasteries and cultivate the fertile land. While building, you place your meeple as travelers, knights, and monks, or later as farmers. This will earn you points. At the end of the game, players will resolve
When a road is closed at both ends (for example, if the road ends at a village, a city, is visually obstructed in some way or loops into itself ), the road is complete, and is scored during Step 3 of the turn. Let's check whether this road can be scored: Yes, it's closed at both ends, so it must be
These are the most important concepts of Carcassonne . Now that you understand them, you can apply them to other features in the game. Place a meeple as a knight First, check whether there are any meeple anywhere in the city . If there aren't, you may place one of your meeple as a knight on one city
That's all you need to know to start playing Carcassonne ! We've summarized the main points below, and explained a couple more details: You must place the tile you drew, making sure the landscape matches up. In the rare event that you cannot place the tile you drew in a way that continues the landsc
The answerer's own words:
I don't have enough information.
2 books had nothing to add — expansion rulebooks only speak where they change the rules. show them
Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedralsbg-4956-en-1e Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals has nothing to add here — an expansion's rulebook only speaks where it changes the game, so silence on a base-game question is the book working, not failing.
The answerer's own words:
I don't have enough information.
Carcassonne: Traders & Buildersbg-5405-en-1e Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
Carcassonne: Traders & Builders has nothing to add here — an expansion's rulebook only speaks where it changes the game, so silence on a base-game question is the book working, not failing.
The answerer's own words:
I don't have enough information.
🔧 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 null ms · ask null ms · total 12458 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 12458 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- citations (raw)
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
- gate not evaluated for this ruling (boost, supersedence, and wrench all off at ask time), and the base-rulebook arm went unrecorded for the same reason — the wrench that would have stored it was off; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
- layering — route
- layered — the books were read together first and that read did not answer, so each book was then read on its own
- layering — how this ask was counted
- counted as ABSTAINED — carried by layer 1 (Carcassonne); layer 2 ABSTAINED, layer 3 ABSTAINED; 0 not read; rung: ANSWERED ▸ ABSTAINED ▸ UNATTRIBUTABLE ▸ REFUSED
- layering — books not run
- layer valve: rulesage.table.max-layers = 8 (today's setting, not necessarily the one this ask ran under). A book the valve trims is not read and leaves NO row of its own, so it cannot be listed above or counted in the census — an empty list here means the corpus breaker marked nobody, not that nothing was left out.
- layering — the pooled probe
- ABSTAINED — queued 0 ms · search 261 ms · ask 4640 ms · first delta 4768 ms · gateway work 4910 ms · refs 8
- layering — queued between books
- queued between layers: 0 ms of the 0 ms total queue wait (every wait after the first is a mid-ask wait, because the generation permit is released and re-taken for each book)
- answered-before recall
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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 20:50
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.
no payload was recorded for this ruling (the call never returned one)
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.
no payload was recorded for this ruling (the call never returned one)
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval n/a · first delta n/a · total 12458 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 n/a ms · ask n/a ms · gateway work 12458 ms · total 12458 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s ago)
- stream path
- not requested — no progress token attached (stream-answers off, or a non-streaming caller)
- 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
layers — one row per book this ask read
| # | book | outcome | timings | refs | cited | stream | arms | row |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| probe | every book, read together (bg-822-en-1e) | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | queued 0 ms · search 261 ms · ask 4640 ms · first delta 4768 ms · gateway work 4910 ms | 8 | 0 | STREAMED | base rulebook doc 123 boosted · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 45 | ruling 1573 |
| 1 | Carcassonne (bg-822-en-1e) | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | queued 0 ms · search 265 ms · ask 2861 ms · first delta 3012 ms · gateway work 3135 ms | 8 | 0 | STREAMED | base rulebook doc 123 boosted · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 45 | ruling 1574 |
| 2 | Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals (bg-4956-en-1e) | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | queued 0 ms · search 251 ms · ask 1755 ms · first delta 1914 ms · gateway work 2011 ms | 4 | 0 | STREAMED | no base-rulebook boost — this edition registers no ingested rulebook to anchor retrieval to · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 116 | ruling 1575 |
| 3 | Carcassonne: Traders & Builders (bg-5405-en-1e) | Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below | queued 0 ms · search 260 ms · ask 2135 ms · first delta 2248 ms · gateway work 2402 ms | 6 | 0 | STREAMED | no base-rulebook boost — this edition registers no ingested rulebook to anchor retrieval to · no registered errata card matched · keyed on edition 117 | ruling 1576 |
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 45), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one
Errata scope: each book this ask READ got its own errata gate, keyed on that book's own edition — so an expansion's registered cards were matched against that expansion's own layer rather than left outside the match. The per-layer table above shows what each one sent, and any book that was not read ran no gate at all.