You asked
How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredOn your turn, you take one action [1][2]. The actions follow these specific procedures: **Play a bird from your hand:** 1. Place an action cube on the "Play a Bird" spot above the column where you will play the bird [3][4]. 2. Pay the bird's food and egg cost [3][4]. 3. Place the bird on your mat, triggering its white 'When Played' power (if any) [3][4]. **Gain food, Lay eggs, or Draw bird cards:** 1. Choose a habitat on your player mat and place an action cube on the leftmost exposed slot in that row [3][4]. 2. Gain the benefit of that slot [3][4]. 3. Move your action cube from right to left, activating any birds with a brown 'When Activated' power in that row (these are optional) [3][4]. 4. When the action cube reaches the far left, leave it there; your turn is over [3][4]. **Additional Rules:** * If you use a forest, grassland, or wetland, you take a hummingbird action at the end of your turn [5]. * If an activated power gives resources to "all players" or "other players," it affects all players, but the other active player can only use those resources after they have finished their own turn [6].
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)
- gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
- timings
- search 218 ms · ask 11918 ms · total 12145 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 12145 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 11, "score": 0.032266, "snippet": "The 2 players that the turnorder dial points to are the active players. They take their turns simultaneously. When both active players have completed their turns, rotate the turn-order dial clockwise. There are now 2 new active players who take their turns. To avoid confusion, be sure to wait for bo", "headingPath": "Flock Mode Gameplay", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030478, "snippet": "In rounds 2 and 4, everyone has an odd number of turns. This will cause the person to the right of the first-player token to have 1 cube left at the end of the round when everyone else has finished their turns. They take 1 last turn alone at this point. The 2 players on the edges of the 4-player gro", "headingPath": "Special circumstances for 7-player games", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029958, "snippet": "Each turn, you will take 1 action. This section describes each action in more detail.", "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029514, "snippet": "Each turn, you will take one action. This section describes each action in more detail.", "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.02724, "snippet": "If you activate a power that gives things to 'all players' or 'other players,' it affects all players at the table, including the other active player. However, the other active player is only affected after finishing their turn. They cannot use any resources gained from your power on their turn. In ", "headingPath": "'All Players' and 'Other Players' powers", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.027151, "snippet": "On your turn, you will take 1 of 4 actions, as shown on the left side of your player mat: Play a bird from your hand Gain food and activate forest bird powers Lay eggs and activate grassland bird powers Draw bird cards and activate wetland bird powers To place a bird from your hand onto a habitat, p", "headingPath": "Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.026631, "snippet": "On your turn, you will take 1 of 4 actions, as shown on the left side of your player mat: Play a bird from your hand (page 6) Gain food and activate forest bird powers (page 7) Lay eggs and activate grassland bird powers (page 8) Draw bird cards and activate wetland bird powers (page 9) To play a bi", "headingPath": "Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.025649, "snippet": "Note the new construction 'Roll any die.' In general, this means you can take a die from inside or outside the birdfeeder. Roll it outside the birdfeeder, and leave it outside. (Unless the bird's power says to do something else.) Several of the round-end bird powers involve rolling dice. Because the", "headingPath": "Bird powers", "sharpsignalDocId": 50}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gameplay", "sharpsignalDocId": 51}, {"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "'All Players' and 'Other Players' powers", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- answered-before recall
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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
- Oct 22, 2026 14:07
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Flock Mode Gameplay | p.11 | 0.032266 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Special circumstances for 7-player games | p.11 | 0.030478 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | THE FOUR ACTIONS | p.6 | 0.029958 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 85 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | THE FOUR ACTIONS | p.6 | 0.029514 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 87 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | 'All Players' and 'Other Players' powers | p.13 | 0.02724 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Turn Structure | p.4 | 0.027151 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Turn Structure | p.4 | 0.026631 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Appendix (corpus doc 50) | Bird powers | p.4 | 0.025649 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | 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 — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | THE FOUR ACTIONS | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Turn Structure | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Turn Structure | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion (corpus doc 51) | Gameplay | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | 'All Players' and 'Other Players' powers | p.13 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 218 ms · first delta n/a · total 12145 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 218 ms · ask 11918 ms · gateway work 12145 ms · total 12145 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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.