Ruling — Puerto Rico

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Puerto Ricobg-3076-en-1e

Setup

1. Place the game board in the middle of the table.[1]

2. Place all buildings on their assigned spaces on the game board.[1]

3. Sort the doubloons by value and place them on the bank on the game board.[1]

4. Each player takes one player board, one plantation tile, and a specific amount of money (2 doubloons for 3 players, 3 doubloons for 4 players, or 4 doubloons for 5 players).[1][2]

5. Players store their doubloons on the windrose on their player boards.[1][2]

6. Players choose a starting player.[1][2]

7. The starting player takes the governor card and a blue indigo tile, placing it face-up on any of the 12 spaces on their island.[1][2]

8. Other players take tiles in clockwise order:

- 3 players: 2nd player takes indigo; 3rd player takes corn.[1][2]

- 4 players: 2nd player takes indigo; 3rd and 4th players take corn.[1][2]

- 5 players: 2nd and 3rd players take indigo; 4th and 5th players take corn.[1][2]

Gameplay

The game is played over approximately 15 rounds.[3] The player with the governor card begins the round.[3]

The Round Structure:

1. The player with the governor card takes a role card, places it face-up next to their player board, and takes the action allowed by that role card.[3]

2. Players continue around the table in clockwise order, each taking the action allowed by that same role card, until every player has taken the action once.[3]

3. The left neighbor of the governor then takes a turn: they take a remaining role card, place it face-up next to their player board, and take the action allowed by that card.[3]

4. Players continue around the table in clockwise order, each taking the action allowed by that new role card, until every player has taken that action once.[3]

5. This process repeats, with the left neighbor of the previous card-taker taking a new role card, until all players have taken a role card and all players have taken the actions allowed by the cards taken.[3]

6. After all actions are completed, place one doubloon on each of the three role cards that were not taken by a player during the round.[3]

7. Place the used role cards back on the table next to the unused cards.[3]

8. The left neighbor of the player who held the governor card takes the governor card, becoming the governor for the next round.[3]

Rules for Role Cards:

- A player must take a role card when it is their turn, but they may choose not to use the card's action or privilege.[3]

- The action of a role card is optional (except for the captain).[3]

- The action is always taken first by the player who took the card, followed by others in clockwise order (with the exception of the prospector).[3]

- If a card has doubloons on it, the player who takes the card receives them in addition to the card's privilege and action.[3]

- A role card remains in front of the player who took it until the end of the round and cannot be taken by another player during that round.[3]

Winning the Game

The winner is the player who earns the most victory points.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.2 · PREPARATION · Each player takes:

[2] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.3 · PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:

[4] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.1 · GOAL · CONTENTS

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 164 ms · ask 8253 ms · total 8419 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8419 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 238 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 238 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 0.90049 of 2472 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 24, 2026 18:03 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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GOAL · CONTENTS	p.1	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
#3	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE SETTLER (settler phase k place a new plantation on the island) · Notes:	p.3	0.046176 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	0.032258 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	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
#6	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · THE PROSPECTORS · A new round...	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GAME END	p.7	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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	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 25 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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	#4	0.032258 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE SETTLER (settler phase k place a new plantation on the island) · Notes:	p.3	#3	0.046176 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE BUILDINGS · The production buildings (blue, white, light and dark brown)	p.8	#19	0.012821 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE TRADER (trader phase k selling goods) · Notes:	p.5	#15	0.013514 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.6	#13	0.013889 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GOAL · CONTENTS	p.1	#2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GOAL · CONTENTS	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 164 ms · first delta 2393 ms · total 8419 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 164 ms · ask 8253 ms · gateway work 8419 ms · total 8419 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3515
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 782
tok/sec: 131.7 tok/sec — 782 output tokens in 5.938 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 30s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 8s 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 164), 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.