Ruling — Blood on the Clocktower

You asked

When does the game end?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Blood on the Clocktowerbg-240980-en-1e

The game ends when one team wins [1]. Specific conditions for ending the game include: * **Good Team Wins:** * The Demon dies [2][3][1]. (Note: All Demons must die for good to win, as some editions allow multiple Demons) [1]. * If both teams would win at the same time (e.g., the Demon dies but only two players are left), the good team wins [1]. * **Evil Team Wins:** * There are only two players left alive, not including Travellers [2][3]. * All remaining players are evil, meaning good players cannot nominate the Demon [4]. * **Other Endings:** * The Storyteller can end the game early when victory is certain for one team [4]. * A player told to be mad by the Cerenovus can end the game by being executed [5].

[1] RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook · p.18 · ENDING THE GAME · DOES THE GAME ALWAYS END WHEN THE

[2] RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook · p.45 · GLOSSARY

[3] RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook · p.44 · GLOSSARY

[4] RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook · p.30 · FABLED CHARACTERS

[5] RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook · p.33 · MAKING THINGS FUN

🔧 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 228 ms · ask 13353 ms · total 13592 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 13592 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 159 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 159 boosted
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 4, 2026 17:58

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 THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. 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 Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	ENDING THE GAME · DOES THE GAME ALWAYS END WHEN THE	p.18	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	FABLED CHARACTERS	p.30	0.047875 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	DOES THE GAME ALWAYS END WHEN THE	p.19	0.046676 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	51
#4	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	MAKING THINGS FUN	p.33	0.046176 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	DOES THE GAME ALWAYS END WHEN THE	p.21	0.045956 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	NOMINATIONS AND VOTING · EXECUTION AND DEATH · WHEN A PLAYER DIES, IS THEIR IDENTITY REVEALED?	p.17	0.042964 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	NOMINATIONS AND VOTING	p.16	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	NOMINATIONS AND VOTING	p.16	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	ENDING THE GAME · DOES THE GAME ALWAYS END WHEN THE	p.18	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	GLOSSARY	p.45	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	GLOSSARY	p.44	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	FABLED CHARACTERS	p.30	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Blood on the Clocktower — Rulebook (corpus doc 159)	MAKING THINGS FUN	p.33	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 228 ms · first delta 12167 ms · total 13592 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 228 ms · ask 13353 ms · gateway work 13592 ms · total 13592 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3577
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 205
tok/sec: 147.3 tok/sec — 205 output tokens in 1.392 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 81), 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.