Ruling — Schotten Totten

You asked

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

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Schotten Tottenbg-372-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Schotten Totten — Rulebook · p.9 · Expert variant · credits

If you're familiar with the rules described above, you might want to spice up the game a little bit. This variant plays according to the base rules but with this change: you can only claim a Stone at the beginning of your turn, before playing a card. Designer: Reiner Knizia • Illustrations: Djib Pro

RULEBOOK Schotten Totten — Rulebook · p.6 · End of the Game · The player who controls these Stones is declared the winner. · Note · Set Up · Gameplay

The game ends immediately if one of the following two things happen : A player controls three adjacent Stones. A player controls fi ve Stones scattered along the Border. If you want to play over several rounds, the winner gains 5 victory points and his opponent gains as many victory points as Stones

RULEBOOK Schotten Totten — Rulebook · p.1 ·

Rules A warm spring breeze flows through the Scottish valley as the birds begin to sing and the snow slowly melts away. Your precious village is slowly uncovered and the stones that define your territory begin poking through. The earth is soft and the stones could easily roll just a bit into your ne

RULEBOOK Schotten Totten — Rulebook · p.4 · Game Play · Note · Conditions for claiming a Stone · Claiming a Stone

Beginning with the First Player and taking turns, choose a card from your hand and place it face-up next to a Stone, on your side of the border. Once you have placed a card next to a Stone, it cannot be moved. Then draw a card and play moves to your opponent. If the deck is empty, you continue playi

RULEBOOK Schotten Totten — Rulebook · p.5 · Color-Run · Three of a Kind · Run · Sum · Example

Three cards of the same color and of three successive strengths Three cards of the same strength Three cards of the same color Three cards of successive strength and of any color Any three cards The order in which you play cards doesn't matter for runs of successive strengths. If the combinations ar

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 554 ms · ask 3341 ms · total 3916 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3916 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 478 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 478 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 05:52

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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	Expert variant · credits	p.9	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	End of the Game · The player who controls these Stones is declared the winner. · Note · Set Up · Gameplay	p.6	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)		p.1	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	Game Play · Note · Conditions for claiming a Stone · Claiming a Stone	p.4	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	Color-Run · Three of a Kind · Run · Sum · Example	p.5	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	2 Combat Modes (played on a Stone tile) · 3 Ruses (played face-up next to the deck)	p.8	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	Tactic cards · Example · 1 Elite Troops (played like a Clan card)	p.7	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 Schotten Totten — Rulebook (corpus doc 478)	Tactic cards (see variant p. 12) · Stone tiles · Set Up	p.3	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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 554 ms · first delta 3771 ms · total 3916 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 554 ms · ask 3341 ms · gateway work 3916 ms · total 3916 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2785
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 140.6 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.064 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 50s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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 409), 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.