Ruling — Bärenpark

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Bärenparkbg-219513-en-1e

A turn consists of the following steps:

1. Place exactly one tile from your supply in your park.[1]

* The tile must fit within the marked spaces in your park, and you may not cover the Pit.[1]

* The tile may not hang over the edge of your park.[1]

* The tile may not overlap another tile.[1]

* The tile must be orthogonally adjacent to another previously placed tile (except for the first tile placed in the game).[1]

* If you have no tile in your supply that you could place in your park, you must pass.[2] If you pass, take a free Green Area of your choice (Toilet, Playground, Food Street, River) from the Supply Board and place it in your supply, and your turn ends immediately.[2]

2. Evaluate the icons you covered with the newly placed tile.[3] If you cover more than one icon, you may carry them all out in any order.[3]

3. Place a Bear Statue.[1]

* Check whether you completed a Park Area (covering all spaces except the Pit).[3]

* If you completed a Park Area, take the Bear Statue tile with the highest value from the supply and place it on the Pit of the just-completed Park Area.[3]

* If you complete multiple Park Areas in one turn, you may take one Bear Statue for each newly-completed area.[3]

4. (For expert variant) If you meet the requirements of one or more Achievements, claim the top tile from the appropriate pile and place it in front of you.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.3 · COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile

[2] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.4 · Passing

[3] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.4 · B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue

[4] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.5 · GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 239 ms · ask 4095 ms · total 4341 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4341 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Passing", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 473 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 473 boosted
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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.91577 of 1116 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 24, 2026 03:44 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	Passing	p.4	0.04866 (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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.3	0.048652 (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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue	p.4	0.047379 (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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement	p.5	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
#5	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	SETUP	p.2	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME IDEA	p.1	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	MAYFAIR GAMES	p.6	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	There are the following Achievements: · Pit Variant for Experts: · CREDITS	p.6	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 9 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	Passing	p.4	#1	0.04866 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue	p.4	#3	0.047379 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	SETUP	p.2	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)		p.1	#9	0.014493 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME IDEA	p.1	#6	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	There are the following Achievements: · Pit Variant for Experts: · CREDITS	p.6	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement	p.5	#4	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.3	#2	0.048652 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	Passing	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 239 ms · first delta 1698 ms · total 4341 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 239 ms · ask 4095 ms · gateway work 4341 ms · total 4341 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3066
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 345
tok/sec: 133.4 tok/sec — 345 output tokens in 2.586 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 43s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 3s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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: 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 403), 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.