Ruling — Carnegie

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Carnegiebg-310873-en-1e

If the locomotive is placed to the left, you choose the action for the round [1]. To take your turn: 1. Select a Timeline (Human Resources, Management, Construction, or R&D) [2]. 2. Place the Timeline marker (gear) immediately to the right of that action's marker on the chosen Timeline [2]. 3. If the chosen action's marker has reached the last space of its Timeline, you must still place the Timeline marker to the right of the action marker [2]. 4. If an action's marker has reached the end of its Timeline, you must turn over the action marker in the row immediately below (or Human Resources if R&D was chosen) [3][2][1]. 5. If the turned-over action marker cannot move forward along its row, turn over the action marker on the next row below, moving downwards row-by-row if necessary [2][1]. 6. Placing the Timeline marker will trigger an event (income or donation) for all players [2]. 7. All players take turns using their Departments that correspond to the chosen action type [2]. 8. If taking a Human Resources action, calculate the total number of possible moves based on active employees (each provides 3 moves), then move active and/or inactive employees within the Company orthogonally up to that total [4]. 9. At the end of your turn, you may activate inactive employees in any of your Departments by paying the cost indicated under an empty Workstation in the employee's current Department and standing them upright on their new Workstations [5][6]. 10. After all other actions have been taken, at the end of the round, the action marker is turned face-up and advanced one space along its row [3][2].

[1] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.18 · 2.2.1. Locomotive to the Left: Player's Choice · 2.2.2. Locomotive to the Right: Andrew's Choice

[2] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.7 · P ART 2: PLA YING THE GAME · 1. Select Timeline · 2. Events · 3. Use Departments · 4. Activate Employees & End of Round · 1. Select Timeline · …

[3] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.7 · EXAMPLE

[4] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.9 · 3.1. Human Resources · EXAMPLE

[5] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.19 · 2.5. End of Round · 3. End of Game and Scoring

[6] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.13 · 4. Activ a te Emplo yees & End of Round · 5.1. Connections between Major Cities · EXAMPLE

🔧 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 277 ms · ask 9152 ms · total 9440 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9440 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 302 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 302 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 21:22

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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.3. Andrew's Turn · 2.3.1. Event · Human Resources · Management · Construction · Research & Development ('R&D') · …	p.19	0.047883 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 2: PLA YING THE GAME · 1. Select Timeline · 2. Events · 3. Use Departments · 4. Activate Employees & End of Round · 1. Select Timeline · …	p.7	0.047643 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.2. Make a Donation · 3. Use Dep artments · ACTION CHOICE TILES · TRADE GOODS FOR MONEY	p.8	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
#4	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.5. End of Round · 3. End of Game and Scoring	p.19	0.045695 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.2.1. Locomotive to the Left: Player's Choice · 2.2.2. Locomotive to the Right: Andrew's Choice	p.18	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
#6	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	EXAMPLE	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	4. Activ a te Emplo yees & End of Round · 5.1. Connections between Major Cities · EXAMPLE	p.13	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 1: INTRODUCING CARNEGIE · 1. How to Read these Rules · Part 1: Introducing Carnegie · Part 2: Playing the Game · Part 3: Transportation Tracks, Donations, & Departments Board · Part 4: Solo Game	p.2	0.029462 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.2.1. Locomotive to the Left: Player's Choice · 2.2.2. Locomotive to the Right: Andrew's Choice	p.18	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 2: PLA YING THE GAME · 1. Select Timeline · 2. Events · 3. Use Departments · 4. Activate Employees & End of Round · 1. Select Timeline · …	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	EXAMPLE	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	3.1. Human Resources · EXAMPLE	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.5. End of Round · 3. End of Game and Scoring	p.19	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	4. Activ a te Emplo yees & End of Round · 5.1. Connections between Major Cities · EXAMPLE	p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 277 ms · first delta 6550 ms · total 9440 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 277 ms · ask 9152 ms · gateway work 9440 ms · total 9440 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3566
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 384
tok/sec: 135.5 tok/sec — 384 output tokens in 2.834 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s 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 230), 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.