Ruling — Carcassonne

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Carcassonne: Traders & Buildersbg-5405-en-1e

On your turn, you simply draw a tile from the bag and then place it as usual [1]. During a double turn (which can be obtained if you place a Land tile that continues the road or city your builder occupies) [2], you may do the following on each turn: 1. Place a tile [3] 2. Place a meeple [3] 3. Score a feature [3]

[1] RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook · p.6 · 3. Final scoring - Scoring fields with pigs in them · 1. Placing a tile

[2] RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook · p.4 · 1. Placing a Land tile and getting a double turn · More information regarding the builder

[3] RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook · p.5 · More information regarding the builder · 3. Scoring a feature · 1. Placing a tile · 2. Placing your pig

🔧 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 229 ms · ask 2648 ms · total 2885 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 2885 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "If you place a Land tile that continues the road or city your builder occupies, you may immediately draw and place another Land tile. You place this tile following all the normal rules. A You place this tile that continues the road that your builder occupies. B Then, you draw another tile which you ", "headingPath": "1. Placing a Land tile and getting a double turn · More information regarding the builder", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "As long as the road is incomplete, the builder will stay there , allowing you to get a double turn (as described above) the first time you add a tile to that road each turn. During a double turn, you may do the following on each turn: 1. Place a tile , 2. Place a meeple , and 3. Score a feature . Mu", "headingPath": "More information regarding the builder · 3. Scoring a feature · 1. Placing a tile · 2. Placing your pig", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "During final scoring, Goods tokens are scored as follows: For each type (Wine, Grain, or Cloth), the player who has the most tokens scores 10 points. In case of a tie for a type, tied players each score 10 points. 2-player game example: You score 20 points. Blue scores 30 points. Builders and pigs a", "headingPath": "Goods tokens are scored at the end of the game. · BUILDERS AND PIGS · 2. Placing your builder", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "One road ends at the city , while the other ends at the small cottage . The roads split the field into 3 separate fields . The monastery splits the roads and fields into 3 separate roads and 3 separate fields . The Goods tokens only have an impact on step 3. Scoring a feature . Steps 1. Placing a ti", "headingPath": "THE NEW LAND TILES · THE GOODS TOKENS · Scoring a city with Goods symbols · You have just completed this city.", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Once placed, your pig will stay in its field until game end. Your pig allows you to score more points for the field it occupies at game end. However, for your pig to be worth any points, you must have the most meeples in that field. Unfortunately, the pig itself is not counted for majority. If you h", "headingPath": "3. Final scoring - Scoring fields with pigs in them · 1. Placing a tile", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "A copy of CARCASSONNE is required to play this expansion. You may integrate it fully or partially. It may also be combined with other CARCASSONNE expansions. 24 Land tiles , and 5 with Cloth (marked with ) including 9 with Wine , 6 with Grain 20 Goods tokens (9x Wine , 6x Grain , and 5x Cloth ) 6 Bu", "headingPath": "Traders & Builders · COMPONENTS · SETUP · THE NEW LAND TILES", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3. Final scoring - Scoring fields with pigs in them · 1. Placing a tile", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1. Placing a Land tile and getting a double turn · More information regarding the builder", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "More information regarding the builder · 3. Scoring a feature · 1. Placing a tile · 2. Placing your pig", "sharpsignalDocId": 215}]
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 20:57

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 Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	1. Placing a Land tile and getting a double turn · More information regarding the builder	p.4	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	More information regarding the builder · 3. Scoring a feature · 1. Placing a tile · 2. Placing your pig	p.5	0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#3	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	Goods tokens are scored at the end of the game. · BUILDERS AND PIGS · 2. Placing your builder	p.3	0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#4	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	THE NEW LAND TILES · THE GOODS TOKENS · Scoring a city with Goods symbols · You have just completed this city.	p.2	0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#5	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	3. Final scoring - Scoring fields with pigs in them · 1. Placing a tile	p.6	0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#6	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	Traders & Builders · COMPONENTS · SETUP · THE NEW LAND TILES	p.1	0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	3. Final scoring - Scoring fields with pigs in them · 1. Placing a tile	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	1. Placing a Land tile and getting a double turn · More information regarding the builder	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Carcassonne: Traders & Builders — Rulebook (corpus doc 215)	More information regarding the builder · 3. Scoring a feature · 1. Placing a tile · 2. Placing your pig	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 229 ms · first delta 2170 ms · total 2885 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 229 ms · ask 2648 ms · gateway work 2885 ms · total 2885 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2259
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 89
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 89 output tokens in 0.652 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s 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 45), 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.