You asked
How does hand limit work? Can I go above 8 then discard down?
Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstainThe answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.
Always draw cards from the deck, unless specifically told to draw them from the Meadow cards. There is a strict hand limit of 8 cards. You cannot ever have more than 8 cards in your hand. If you get to draw cards, you can only draw up to 8, no more. If you are required to give cards to an opponent,
When you have reached the end of autumn and cannot perform any more actions (or do not wish to), you have finished the game and must pass. If a player has passed, they cannot be given any cards or resources. If cards or resources have to be given to a player and all other players have passed, discar
The Haven location is a shared space. There is no limit to the amount of workers that may be placed on it, even of the same color. By going here, you may discard any number of cards from your hand, and gain 1 of any resource for every 2 cards you discard. Note: The discard pile is facedown.
In autumn only, you may send a worker on a Journey. You must discard cards equal to the listed points of the Journey location you choose. The 5-point, 4-point, and 3-point locations are exclusive, and the 2-point location is shared. The deployed worker is worth the listed points at the end of the ga
Same rules as Year One with these additional rules: Place his worker on the 4-point Journey space instead of the 3. Rugwort gains 6 points for every special Event that you did not achieve, instead of 3.
Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings
🔧 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 280 ms · ask 6236 ms · total 6526 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 6526 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 11, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Always draw cards from the deck, unless specifically told to draw them from the Meadow cards. There is a strict hand limit of 8 cards. You cannot ever have more than 8 cards in your hand. If you get to draw cards, you can only draw up to 8, no more. If you are required to give cards to an opponent, ", "headingPath": "ORAWING CAROS", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "When you have reached the end of autumn and cannot perform any more actions (or do not wish to), you have finished the game and must pass. If a player has passed, they cannot be given any cards or resources. If cards or resources have to be given to a player and all other players have passed, discar", "headingPath": "ENO GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "The Haven location is a shared space. There is no limit to the amount of workers that may be placed on it, even of the same color. By going here, you may discard any number of cards from your hand, and gain 1 of any resource for every 2 cards you discard. Note: The discard pile is facedown.", "headingPath": "HAVEN", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "In autumn only, you may send a worker on a Journey. You must discard cards equal to the listed points of the Journey location you choose. The 5-point, 4-point, and 3-point locations are exclusive, and the 2-point location is shared. The deployed worker is worth the listed points at the end of the ga", "headingPath": "JOURNEY", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 17, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Same rules as Year One with these additional rules: Place his worker on the 4-point Journey space instead of the 3. Rugwort gains 6 points for every special Event that you did not achieve, instead of 3.", "headingPath": "YEAR 2: \"RUGWORT THE ROTTEN\"", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "Architect: At game end, worth 1 point for each of your leftover resin and pebbles, up to 6 points total. Bard: Discard up to 5 cards from your hand, to gain 1 point token for each card. Barge Toad: When played and during Production, gain 2 twigs for each Farm in your city. Chip Sweep: When played an", "headingPath": "CRITTERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 17, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "Same rules as Year Two with these additional rules: Place his worker on the 5-point Journey space instead of the 4. During Rugwort's autumn Prepare for Season action, he kidnaps one of your workers! Do not move his worker to the 1 berry and 1 card space-instead remove his worker and one of your work", "headingPath": "YEAR 3: \"RUGWORT THE RAPSCALLION\"", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "Your city has a maximum of 15 spaces to play cards into. Each card takes up 1 space. Recommended layout is 3 rows with 5 cards in each. Event cards do not count against this 15 card limit. Suggested City Layout", "headingPath": "CITY", "sharpsignalDocId": 63}]
- citations (raw)
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- 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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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
- Oct 26, 2026 19:25
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 |
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| #1 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | ORAWING CAROS | p.11 | 0.016393 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | ENO GAME | p.14 | 0.016129 (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 Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | HAVEN | p.9 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 291 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | JOURNEY | p.9 | 0.015625 (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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | YEAR 2: "RUGWORT THE ROTTEN" | p.17 | 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) | 202 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | CRITTERS | p.18 | 0.015152 (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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | YEAR 3: "RUGWORT THE RAPSCALLION" | p.17 | 0.014925 (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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 63) | CITY | p.11 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 210 |
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 |
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generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 280 ms · first delta n/a · total 6526 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 280 ms · ask 6236 ms · gateway work 6526 ms · total 6526 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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
- ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
- abstain rationale
- the answerer offered no rationale text with this refusal (or the ruling predates the abstain_rationale column, V41)
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 10), 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.