Ruling — Wingspan

You asked

How many rounds is the game and how many turns are in each round?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Wingspanbg-266192-en-1e

The game is played over 4 rounds [1][2]. The number of turns per player in each round is as follows: 1. Round 1: 8 turns per player [3][4] 2. Round 2: 7 turns per player [3][4] 3. Round 3: 6 turns per player [3][4] 4. Round 4: 5 turns per player [3][4]

[1] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.4 · OVERVIEW · Turn Structure

[2] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.4 · OVERVIEW

[3] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.4 · Duet Mode

[4] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.5 · Round Structure · Game End and Scoring

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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 230 ms · ask 9604 ms · total 9845 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9845 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OVERVIEW · Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Duet Mode", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Round Structure · Game End and Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 198 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 198 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 5, 2026 13:01

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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	END OF THE ROUND · Scoring End-of-Round Goals · Green: Majority of the targeted item	p.11	0.047228 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Round Structure · Game End and Scoring	p.5	0.032266 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	OVERVIEW · Turn Structure	p.4	0.030366 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Blue: One point per targeted item	p.11	0.028446 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	THE FOUR ACTIONS · OPTION 1. Play a Bird From Your Hand · When you choose to play a bird, do the following:	p.6	0.024476 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Player Setup	p.2	0.023772 (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 Wingspan — Asia Appendix (corpus doc 50)	Hunting and Fishing Powers	p.10	0.023375 (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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Duet Mode	p.4	0.016393 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	OVERVIEW · Turn Structure	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	OVERVIEW	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Duet Mode	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Round Structure · Game End and Scoring	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 230 ms · first delta 9150 ms · total 9845 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 230 ms · ask 9604 ms · gateway work 9845 ms · total 9845 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2267
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 100
tok/sec: 150.8 tok/sec — 100 output tokens in 0.663 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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

6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against

anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4

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.