Ruling — My City

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How do I play?

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1. In each round, turn over the top construction card of the face-down deck and place it face up in a discard pile.[1][2]

2. All players simultaneously take the building matching the one depicted on the construction card and place it on their game board.[1][2]

3. The first building placed on the game board must be placed alongside the river, with at least one side touching the river.[3][1]

4. All subsequent buildings must be positioned so that they have at least one side bordering another building, though buildings also count as bordering if the river flows between them.[3]

5. Buildings may only be built on light green spaces, not in the mountains or the forest.[1][2]

6. Buildings may be placed on light green spaces containing rocks or trees.[1][2]

7. A building may not be placed on the river in a way that it lies on both sides of the river.[1][2]

8. Buildings may not be placed on top of buildings that are already constructed, and once placed, a building cannot be moved.[3]

9. If the blocking card is turned over, another card from the deck is immediately turned over as well; the building shown on this second card must not be constructed (even if it is a church), and both cards are placed on the discard pile with the blocking card on top.[4][3]

10. If a player is unable to construct the church shown on an uncovered construction card, they must end their participation in the episode and can no longer construct any more buildings.[4][3]

11. A player may choose to pass if they cannot or do not want to construct a building; they must announce this out loud, place the building face down in front of them, and move their scoring token one step backwards (losing one point), unless the token is already at zero, in which case they must end their participation.[3]

12. A player may decide to end their participation in an episode after any construction card is turned over by announcing it out loud and turning the unconstructed building over, without losing points.[3]

13. At the end of the episode, players receive points for their buildings which are marked on the scoring track.[1][2]

[1] RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook · p.3 · GENERAL RULES OF THE GAME · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES

[2] RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook · p.6 · COURSE OF PLAY · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES

[3] RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook · p.7 · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES

[4] RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook · p.7 · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES

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🔧 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 82 ms · ask 5674 ms · total 21587 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 15828 ms · generation 5759 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 343 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 343 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 0.92471 of 1740 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 10:27 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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	GAME SETUP	p.3	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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	4 two-sided game boards	p.2	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
#3	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	COURSE OF PLAY · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.6	0.047131 (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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	OVERVIEW	p.1	0.046875 (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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE ETERNAL GAME · GAME SETUP	p.6	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
#6	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	Assessment with two players: · THE SEALED ENVELOPES	p.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))	300
#7	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	GENERAL RULES OF THE GAME · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.3	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
#8	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.7	0.029437 (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 14 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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	GAME SETUP	p.3	#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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE ETERNAL GAME · GAME SETUP	p.6	#5	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
#3	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	4 two-sided game boards	p.2	#2	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
#4	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.7	#8	0.029437 (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
#5	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.7	#9	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
#6	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	OVERVIEW	p.1	#4	0.046875 (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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	GENERAL RULES OF THE GAME · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.3	#7	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
#8	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	COURSE OF PLAY · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.6	#3	0.047131 (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 My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	GENERAL RULES OF THE GAME · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	COURSE OF PLAY · THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK My City — Rulebook (corpus doc 343)	THE CONSTRUCTION RULES	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 82 ms · first delta 2063 ms · total 21587 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 15828 ms · retrieval 82 ms · ask 5674 ms · gateway work 5759 ms · total 21587 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2928
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 486
tok/sec: 132.9 tok/sec — 486 output tokens in 3.658 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s 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 271), 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.