Ruling — Final Girl

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The game is played in turns, each consisting of five phases, and continues until either you or the Killer are dead.[1][2]

The Game Turn Phases:

1. The Action phase [1][2]

2. The Planning phase [1][2]

3. The Killer phase [1][2]

4. The Panic phase [1][2]

5. The Upkeep phase [1][2]

The Action Phase:

* During this phase, you play Action cards to move, attack, rest, search, and/or take various other actions.[1][2]

* Most Action cards are resolved by making a Horror Roll.[1][2]

* The number of dice rolled is based on the current Horror Level on the Horror Track.[1][2]

* A result of 5 or 6 is a success, and a 3 or 4 is a partial success.[1][2]

* You may discard 2 Action cards from your hand to convert a partial success (3 or 4) into a success.[1][2]

* When attacking, you must be in the same space as the Killer (unless you have an item or ability for range).[3] To attack, play an Action card that allows you to inflict damage and make a Horror Roll.[3]

* When playing or discarding Action cards, they must be placed in a central discard pile separate from the Action Tableau.[1][2]

* You may discard any number of Action cards from your hand before the phase ends to gain +1 Time each.[3]

* The Action phase ends if you decide to stop, run out of cards to play, or if the Time marker goes below zero.[4]

The Planning Phase:

* During this phase, you spend remaining Time to purchase cards from the Action Tableau.[4]

* You must perform the following in order:

1. Spend Time to purchase Action cards from the Action Tableau; if a card's cost is greater than zero, move the Time marker down one space for each Time spent.[4]

2. You may purchase cards that were played or discarded since the last Planning phase, provided you do not purchase cards that were just played (even Zero Cost cards).[4]

3. You may purchase a card if paying the cost would move the Time marker below zero.[4]

4. You may purchase a card if you already have 10 cards in your hand.[4]

* After purchasing, reset the Time marker to 6 (any unspent Time is lost).[4]

* Place all Action cards played or discarded since the last Planning phase back into their respective piles in the Action Tableau.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook · p.6 · GAMEPLAY · The Game Turn · The Action Phase · ACTION CARDS · Horror Rolls

[2] RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook · p.6

[3] RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook · p.9 · Attacking · Gaining/Losing Time · Discarding action cards to gain time

[4] RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook · p.10 · Ending the Action Phase · The Planning Phase · You may NOT:

Settled. Play on.

🔧 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 98 ms · ask 10340 ms · total 10818 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 377 ms · generation 10441 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 959 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 959 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 0.88242 of 1786 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 24, 2026 14:57 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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		p.6	0.048387 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	GAMEPLAY · The Game Turn · The Action Phase · ACTION CARDS · Horror Rolls	p.6	0.046642 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Ending the Action Phase · The Planning Phase · You may NOT:	p.10	0.046244 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	The location board · Core box	p.5	0.045287 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		p.10	0.045037 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	THE PLAYER BOARD	p.3	0.042961 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Items	p.14	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
#8	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		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

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 75 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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	The location board · Core box	p.5	#4	0.045287 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Defending Against an Attack with a reaction card	p.12	#22	0.024501 (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 re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Attacking · Gaining/Losing Time · Discarding action cards to gain time	p.9	#16	0.025894 (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 re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	THE PLAYER BOARD	p.3	#6	0.042961 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		p.10	#12	0.028259 (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 re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Ending the Action Phase · The Planning Phase · You may NOT:	p.10	#3	0.046244 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	GAMEPLAY · The Game Turn · The Action Phase · ACTION CARDS · Horror Rolls	p.6	#2	0.046642 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		p.6	#1	0.048387 (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 Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	GAMEPLAY · The Game Turn · The Action Phase · ACTION CARDS · Horror Rolls	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Attacking · Gaining/Losing Time · Discarding action cards to gain time	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Final Girl — Rulebook (corpus doc 959)	Ending the Action Phase · The Planning Phase · You may NOT:	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 98 ms · first delta 5928 ms · total 10818 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 377 ms · retrieval 98 ms · ask 10340 ms · gateway work 10441 ms · total 10818 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3796
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 585
tok/sec: 132.7 tok/sec — 585 output tokens in 4.409 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 10s 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 213), 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.