Ruling — Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

You asked

When does the game end?

Answered counted as answered

The game ends after 6 rounds [1], which occurs when all spaces of the round indicator are empty [2]. The end of the game is followed by a final scoring phase [1]. To determine your final score, you must carry out these three steps: 1. On the score track, gain 1 point for every 3 pane pieces left on your pattern strips [3]. 2. Lose the points shown to the right of your marker on the broken glass track [3]. 3. If you are playing with side B of the palace boards, follow specific scoring details as noted in the End of the game section [4].

[1] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.3 · Object of the game

[2] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.5 · End of the round

[3] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.5 · End of the game

[4] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.5 · Then your turn is over.

🔧 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 244 ms · ask 3564 ms · total 3819 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3819 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Object of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "End of the round", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "End of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Then your turn is over.", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): 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: 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 23, 2026 20:47

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 Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Object of the game	p.3	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded)	117
#2	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the game	p.5	0.032002 (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 Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the round	p.5	0.031514 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Game Setup	p.2	0.031025 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Playing the game	p.3	0.03055 (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 Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Then your turn is over.	p.5	0.030118 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	269
#7	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Diffif iculties distinguishing the colors of the pane pieces?	p.6	0.029236 (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 Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 3- Check if the pattern is complete	p.4	0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded)	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Object of the game	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the round	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the game	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Then your turn is over.	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 244 ms · first delta n/a · total 3819 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 244 ms · ask 3564 ms · gateway work 3819 ms · total 3819 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 25s 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

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 27), 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.