Ruling — Bridge

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Bridgebg-2181-en-1e

1. The player designated by the board as dealer makes the first call [1]. 2. The player to the dealer's left makes the second call [1]. 3. Thereafter, each player calls in turn in a clockwise rotation [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Bridge — Rulebook · p.49 · A. Auction Period Starts · B. The First Call · C. Successive Calls · D. End of Auction Period

🔧 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 279 ms · ask 8551 ms · total 8842 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8842 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 62, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "When a player has passed out of rotation and the call is cancelled, the option in Law 29A not having been exercised, the following provisions apply (if the pass is artificial see C): When a pass out of rotation is made at offender's RHO's turn to call, the offender must pass when next it is his turn", "headingPath": "LAW 30 PASS OUT OF ROTATION · A. RHO's Turn to Call · B. Partner's or LHO's Turn to Call · C. When Pass Is Artificial", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 63, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "When a player has bid out of rotation, has passed artificially or has passed partner's artificial call (see Law 30C) and the call is cancelled, the option in Law 29A not having been exercised, the following provisions apply: When the offender has called at his RHO's turn to call, then: If that oppon", "headingPath": "LAW 31 BID OUT OF ROTATION · A. RHO's Turn to Call · B. Partner's or LHO's Turn to Call · C. Later Bids at LHO's Turn to Call", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 35, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "When a board is to be played it is placed in the center of the table where it shall remain, correctly oriented, until play is completed. Each player takes a hand from the pocket corresponding to his compass position. Each player counts his cards face down to be sure he has exactly thirteen; after th", "headingPath": "A. Placement of Board · B. Removal of Cards from Board · C. Returning Cards to Board · D. Responsibility for Procedures", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 33, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Players change their initial compass direction or proceed to another table in accordance with the Director's instructions. The Director is responsible for clear announcement of instructions; each player is responsible for moving when and as directed and for occupying the correct seat after each chan", "headingPath": "B. Change of Direction or Table · A. The Shuffle · B. The Deal · C. Representation of Both Pairs · D. New Shuffle and Redeal", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 36, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "The Director instructs the players as to the proper movement of boards and progression of contestants. Unless the Director instructs otherwise, the North player at each table is responsible for moving the boards just completed at his table to the proper table for the following round. In general, a r", "headingPath": "A. Movement of Boards and Players · B. End of Round · C. End of Last Round and End of Session · A. Drawing Attention to an Irregularity", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 61, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "A call is considered to be in rotation when it is made by a player at his RHO's turn to call if that opponent is required by law to pass. A call is considered to be in rotation when made by a player whose turn it was to call before rectification has been assessed for a call out of rotation by an opp", "headingPath": "A. RHO Required to Pass · B. Call by Correct Player Cancelling Call Out of Rotation · A. Forfeiture of Right to Rectification · B. Out-of-Rotation Call Cancelled · C. Call Out of Rotation Is Artificial", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 32, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "The same sequence is repeated for Boards 17-32 and for each subsequent group of 16 boards. No board that fails to conform to these conditions should be used. If such board is used, however, the conditions marked on it apply for that session. Four players play at each table, and tables are numbered i", "headingPath": "LAW 2 THE DUPLICATE BOARDS · LAW 3 ARRANGEMENT OF TABLES · LAW 4 PARTNERSHIPS · A. Initial Position", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}, {"page": 49, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The auction period on a deal begins for a side when either partner withdraws his cards from the board. The player designated by the board as dealer makes the first call. The player to dealer's left makes the second call, and thereafter each player calls in turn in a clockwise rotation. The auction p", "headingPath": "A. Auction Period Starts · B. The First Call · C. Successive Calls · D. End of Auction Period", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 49, "quote": null, "headingPath": "A. Auction Period Starts · B. The First Call · C. Successive Calls · D. End of Auction Period", "sharpsignalDocId": 170}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 170 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 170 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 14:25

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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	LAW 30 PASS OUT OF ROTATION · A. RHO's Turn to Call · B. Partner's or LHO's Turn to Call · C. When Pass Is Artificial	p.62	0.032787 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	LAW 31 BID OUT OF ROTATION · A. RHO's Turn to Call · B. Partner's or LHO's Turn to Call · C. Later Bids at LHO's Turn to Call	p.63	0.032258 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	A. Placement of Board · B. Removal of Cards from Board · C. Returning Cards to Board · D. Responsibility for Procedures	p.35	0.031746 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	B. Change of Direction or Table · A. The Shuffle · B. The Deal · C. Representation of Both Pairs · D. New Shuffle and Redeal	p.33	0.03125 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	A. Movement of Boards and Players · B. End of Round · C. End of Last Round and End of Session · A. Drawing Attention to an Irregularity	p.36	0.030769 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	A. RHO Required to Pass · B. Call by Correct Player Cancelling Call Out of Rotation · A. Forfeiture of Right to Rectification · B. Out-of-Rotation Call Cancelled · C. Call Out of Rotation Is Artificial	p.61	0.030303 (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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	LAW 2 THE DUPLICATE BOARDS · LAW 3 ARRANGEMENT OF TABLES · LAW 4 PARTNERSHIPS · A. Initial Position	p.32	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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	A. Auction Period Starts · B. The First Call · C. Successive Calls · D. End of Auction Period	p.49	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 Bridge — Rulebook (corpus doc 170)	A. Auction Period Starts · B. The First Call · C. Successive Calls · D. End of Auction Period	p.49	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 279 ms · first delta 8398 ms · total 8842 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 279 ms · ask 8551 ms · gateway work 8842 ms · total 8842 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2816
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 53
tok/sec: 137.3 tok/sec — 53 output tokens in 0.386 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s 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 93), 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.