Ruling — Beyond the Sun

You asked

When does the game end?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Beyond the Sunbg-317985-en-1e

The game ends according to the following conditions: * The game is played over a variable number of rounds until a number of game-end achievements are collectively claimed by the players [1]. * The last round is triggered when 4 total Achievement discs have been placed on Achievement cards [2]. * Once 4 Achievements are claimed, the current round is finished and one full, final round of the game is played [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.2 · The Story · The Goal of the Game

[2] RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.10 · Triggering the End of the Game Triggering the End of the Game

🔧 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 276 ms · ask 15434 ms · total 30364 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 14642 ms · generation 15722 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 297 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 297 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 6, 2026 14:27

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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Triggering the End of the Game Triggering the End of the Game	p.10	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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Triggering the End of the Game Triggering the End of the Game	p.10	0.048412 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Turn Overview Turn Overview	p.6	0.047379 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	The Story · The Goal of the Game	p.2	0.046642 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	3. Achievement Phase 3. Achievement Phase	p.10	0.045831 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	3. Achievement Phase 3. Achievement Phase	p.10	0.045688 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	2. Check System control and build outposts 2. Check System control and build outposts	p.18	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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Scoring Scoring	p.11	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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	The Story · The Goal of the Game	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Triggering the End of the Game Triggering the End of the Game	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 276 ms · first delta 15720 ms · total 30364 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 14642 ms · retrieval 276 ms · ask 15434 ms · gateway work 15722 ms · total 30364 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3337
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 92
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 92 output tokens in 0.674 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 225), 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.