Ruling — EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin

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Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabinbg-203420-en-1e

1. Get the book and the decoder disk ready on the table [1]. 2. Leave the 'strange items' in the box for now [1]. 3. Sort the cards into three piles based on their back sides: Riddle Cards, Answer Cards, and Help Cards [1]. 4. Ensure that the Riddle Cards and Answer Cards are arranged in ascending order according to their letters or numbers [1]. 5. Sort the Help Cards according to their symbols and place them on the side of the table [1]. 6. Place cards with the same symbol one on top of another, such that the '1st CLUE' card is on top of the '2nd CLUE' card, and the latter is on top of the 'SOLUTION' card [1].

[1] RULEBOOK EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook · p.2 · What's the game about? · Game materials · Game setup

🔧 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 237 ms · ask 3705 ms · total 3951 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3951 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "IMPORTANT: Do not look closely at any of the game materials before starting the game! Do not leaf through the book yet, and do not look at the fronts of the cards yet. Wait until 'the game' tells you to. 86 Cards 23 Riddle Cards 30 Answer Cards 33 Help Cards 3 Strange items (red, green, blue) 1 Book", "headingPath": "What's the game about? · Game materials · Game setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "This number indicates the number of the Answer Card that you are then allowed to look at. If the code is incorrect, you will have to keep searching for a solution or switch to another riddle for the time being. If the code is correct, the Answer Card will tell you how to continue. If so, the Answer ", "headingPath": "Course of play · Is the code incorrect?", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "| | No Help Cards | 1-2 Help Cards | 3-5 Help Cards | 6-10 Help Cards | > 10 Help Cards | | < 60 Min. | 10 stars | 8 stars | 7 stars | 5 stars | 4 stars | | < 90 Min. | 9 stars | 7 stars | 6 stars | 4 stars | 3 stars | | < 120 Min. | 8 stars | 6 stars | 5 stars | 3 stars | 2 stars | | > 120 Min. | 7", "headingPath": "When does the game end? · One final tip · The game begins", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "This game has no game board! You will have to figure out for yourselves what you have to find in the game and what the rooms look like. At the beginning of the game, you will have only the book and the decoder disk available to you. As the game continues, you will add the Riddle Cards -either to be ", "headingPath": "Where is the game board? · Example: · Course of play", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "IMPORTANT: Always take the Help Cards for a specific Riddle Card or riddle in the book. These riddles are usually identified with a symbol (matching a symbol on the decoder disk). It won't help you to use Help Cards if you have not found a riddle with the corresponding symbol. Have a little patience", "headingPath": "Need some help? · Additional playing materials · When does the game end?", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "To continue with this example scenario: Next, you will take a look at the Answer Card pictured next to the safe on the card. You will see that you should now retrieve Answer Card 1 from the pile. The code may be right. Where do you see the code sy Answer Card 5 Is the code really correct? Answer Car", "headingPath": "Is the code incorrect? · Need some help?", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "The following players on in successfully escaped from the abandoned cabin. What an outstanding accomplishment, and how fortunate that they now won’t have to be locked up forever inside the cabin! To do it, it took them and They used a total of Help Cards. This earned them stars in the assessment! Th", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "For 1-6 Players, Ages 12 and up CAUTION: Do not look at the playing materials (cards, book, etc.) yet! First, read this manual together out loud and carefully follow all of its instructions. You and your friends are in the car on your way to a well-deserved vacation. Your spirits are high as you tal", "headingPath": "What's the game about?", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "What's the game about? · Game materials · Game setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 470}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 470 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 470 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 7, 2026 05:50

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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	What's the game about? · Game materials · Game setup	p.2	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	Course of play · Is the code incorrect?	p.4	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	When does the game end? · One final tip · The game begins	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
#4	RULEBOOK EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	Where is the game board? · Example: · Course of play	p.3	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	Need some help? · Additional playing materials · When does the game end?	p.6	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	Is the code incorrect? · Need some help?	p.5	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)		p.8	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	What's the game about?	p.1	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 EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin — Rulebook (corpus doc 470)	What's the game about? · Game materials · Game setup	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 237 ms · first delta 2711 ms · total 3951 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 237 ms · ask 3705 ms · gateway work 3951 ms · total 3951 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3092
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 162
tok/sec: 135.9 tok/sec — 162 output tokens in 1.192 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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 400), 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.