Ruling — Kingsburg (Second Edition)

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The game is played over five rounds called years.[1] Each year consists of eight phases in the following order:

1. The King's Favor [1]

2. Spring (First Productive Season) [1]

3. The King's Reward [1]

4. Summer (Second Productive Season) [1]

5. The King's Envoy [1]

6. Fall (Third Productive Season) [1]

7. Recruit Soldiers [1]

8. Winter (The Battle) [1]

Productive Seasons (Spring, Summer, and Fall)

During productive seasons, players take turns performing the following steps:[1]

1. Roll Dice and Set Turn Order: Players roll all dice simultaneously, including bonus dice.[2] Players may use effects to change or reroll dice.[2] A new turn order is set based on the dice totals, where the lowest total goes first.[2] Players rearrange their disks on the turn order chart accordingly.[2]

2. Influence the King's Advisors [1]

3. Receive Advisor Rewards [1]

4. Construct Buildings: In turn order, each player may construct one building by spending goods equal to the cost shown on their province sheet.[3] The player places a building token on the space to show ownership and immediately gains the VP shown on the building's red banner.[3] A player can only construct a building if they own all buildings to its left in the same row, and they cannot construct a second copy of a building they already own.[3] The player with the king's envoy can use it to construct one additional building this turn.[3]

Winter (The Battle)

In phase 8, players face the invading army using the top card of the enemy deck.[1] Depending on the outcome, players may gain or lose goods, VP, or buildings.[1]

Ending the Game

The game ends at the end of the fifth year.[4][1] The player with the most VP wins.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.4 · Playing the Game · Open Information · Phase 1: The King's Favor · Phase 2: Spring

[2] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.4 · a) Roll Dice and Set Turn Order · Setting the Turn Order

[3] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.7 · d) Construct Buildings · Constructing a Building · Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer

[4] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.2 · Object of the Game · Your First Game · Components

The book has spoken.

🔧 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 93 ms · ask 6344 ms · total 6439 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6439 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing the Game · Open Information · Phase 1: The King's Favor · Phase 2: Spring", "sharpsignalDocId": 136}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "a) Roll Dice and Set Turn Order · Setting the Turn Order", "sharpsignalDocId": 136}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "d) Construct Buildings · Constructing a Building · Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer", "sharpsignalDocId": 136}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Object of the Game · Your First Game · Components", "sharpsignalDocId": 136}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 136 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 136 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 0.88834 of 1415 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 16:12 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Playing the Game · Open Information · Phase 1: The King's Favor · Phase 2: Spring	p.4	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
#2	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	At the end of each productive Expansion Module Components · Setup	p.3	0.047938 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Resolving a Battle · End of the Year · Winning the Game · 2-Player Rule Changes	p.9	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Object of the Game · Your First Game · Components	p.2	0.045285 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	During the Game · Game End	p.11	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
#6	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	a) Roll Dice and Set Turn Order · Setting the Turn Order	p.4	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Setup	p.10	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	b) Influence the King's Advisors · Influencing the King's Advisors	p.5	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

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 32 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	At the end of each productive Expansion Module Components · Setup	p.3	#2	0.047938 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	8 Treasurer · 9 Master Hunter	p.12	#16	0.013699 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Setup	p.10	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Object of the Game · Your First Game · Components	p.2	#4	0.045285 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Module 6: Alternate Advisor Rewards · Setup · During the Game · 1 Jester · 2 Squire · 3 Architect · …	p.12	#17	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	d) Construct Buildings · Constructing a Building · Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer	p.7	#15	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Playing the Game · Open Information · Phase 1: The King's Favor · Phase 2: Spring	p.4	#1	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
#8	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	a) Roll Dice and Set Turn Order · Setting the Turn Order	p.4	#6	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Playing the Game · Open Information · Phase 1: The King's Favor · Phase 2: Spring	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	a) Roll Dice and Set Turn Order · Setting the Turn Order	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	d) Construct Buildings · Constructing a Building · Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 136)	Object of the Game · Your First Game · Components	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 3142 ms · total 6439 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 93 ms · ask 6344 ms · gateway work 6439 ms · total 6439 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3182
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 430
tok/sec: 132.9 tok/sec — 430 output tokens in 3.236 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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 58), 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.