Ruling — Wingspan

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Wingspanbg-266192-en-1e

1. Take one of four possible actions [1][2][3]: * Play a bird from your hand [2][3] * Gain food and activate forest bird powers [2][3] * Lay eggs and activate grassland bird powers [2][3] * Draw bird cards and activate wetland bird powers [2][3] 2. If playing a bird from your hand: place an action cube on the Play a Bird spot above where you will play the bird, pay the bird's food and egg cost, then place the bird on your mat, triggering its white "when played" power if any [2][3]. 3. If taking the Gain Food, Lay Eggs, or Draw Bird Cards actions: * Choose a habitat on your player mat and place an action cube on the leftmost exposed slot in that row [2][3]. * Gain the benefit of that slot [2][3]. * Move your action cube from right to left, activating any birds with a brown "WHEN ACTIVATED" power in that row (using each power is optional) [2][3]. * When the action cube reaches the far left, leave it there [2][3]. 4. If using your forest, grassland, or wetland, you will take a hummingbird action at the end of your turn [4]. 5. Your turn is over [2][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.6 · THE FOUR ACTIONS

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

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

[4] RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion · p.4 · Gameplay

Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings

🔧 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 207 ms · ask 10453 ms · total 10669 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10669 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OVERVIEW · Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gameplay", "sharpsignalDocId": 51}]
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 6, 2026 17:06

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)	OVERVIEW · Turn Structure	p.4	0.046103 (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)	THE FOUR ACTIONS · OPTION 1. Play a Bird From Your Hand · When you choose to play a bird, do the following:	p.6	0.042354 (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 — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Flock Mode Gameplay	p.11	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
#4	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Special circumstances for 7-player games	p.11	0.030282 (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 — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	THE FOUR ACTIONS	p.6	0.029469 (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))	87
#6	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Turn Structure	p.4	0.029418 (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 — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Round Structure · Game End and Scoring	p.5	0.028475 (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)	'Once Between Turns' (PINK) POWERS	p.13	0.027433 (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))	267

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	THE FOUR ACTIONS	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Turn Structure	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	OVERVIEW · Turn Structure	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion (corpus doc 51)	Gameplay	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 207 ms · first delta 8560 ms · total 10669 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 207 ms · ask 10453 ms · gateway work 10669 ms · total 10669 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1807
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 309
tok/sec: 148.9 tok/sec — 309 output tokens in 2.075 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s 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.