Ruling — Daybreak

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: Daybreakbg-334986-en-1e

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

RULEBOOK Daybreak — Rulebook · p.6 · Play cards in 3 ways

Play cards in front of a stack to make their actions available. Here, you might play Long Range Transmission in front because you can use it once per blue Grid tag, which the Clean Electricity Plants card has. When you take actions, you get to use all the tags behind it! Play in front Tuck a card be

RULEBOOK Daybreak — Rulebook · p.5 · Here's how you win

Reach Drawdown : the moment you collectively remove more Carbon from the atmosphere than you produce. You'll do that by playing cards that remove Dirty Energy and Emissions tokens from your player board, while adding Clean Energy tokens to keep up with the Energy Demand of your World Power. Everyone

RULEBOOK Daybreak — Rulebook · p.17 · Growth stage · Check for victory · Advance the round · Increase Energy Demand · Game end · Reminders

Players check if they've won, and if not, they all increase their Energy Demand. If the round marker shows Drawdown at this point, you win! Otherwise… Advance the Current Round token to the next space on the round tracker. All the Local Project cards in your Play Area and hand carry over into the ne

RULEBOOK Daybreak — Rulebook · p.14 · Adjust Temperature

Move all remaining Carbon cubes in the Recent Emissions area to the Thermometer. Each 1-value Carbon cube fills one of the small squares and each 5-value Carbon cube fills a big square. Fill the Thermometer from bottom-to-top and from left to right. Only fill columns equal to the number of players.

RULEBOOK Daybreak — Rulebook · p.3 · Variants 34

In Daybreak, you'll build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need for a warming planet. Each player takes the role of a different World Power-China, Europe, the United States, and the Majority World. All of you have a shared goal: cut carbon emissions before it gets too hot or

🔧 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 297 ms · ask 6888 ms · total 7458 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 262 ms · generation 7196 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 521 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 521 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 06:03

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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Play cards in 3 ways	p.6	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Here's how you win	p.5	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Growth stage · Check for victory · Advance the round · Increase Energy Demand · Game end · Reminders	p.17	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Adjust Temperature	p.14	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Variants 34	p.3	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	How to play · Global stage · Local stage · Emissions stage · Crisis stage · Growth stage · …	p.10	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Set up central board · Prepare card decks	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 Daybreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 521)	Start a Local Project · Support a card · Support a Local Project · Support a Global Project	p.12	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 297 ms · first delta 7061 ms · total 7458 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 262 ms · retrieval 297 ms · ask 6888 ms · gateway work 7196 ms · total 7458 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3666
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 152.5 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.059 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s 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 452), 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.