Ruling — Distilled

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The game is played over seven rounds.[1] The goal is to earn the title of Master Distiller by having the most spirit points (SP) at the end of the game.[1]

Each round consists of four phases:[1]

1. Market Phase

* Resolve any start of round powers from distillery identities or distillery upgrade cards, using turn order if any compete.[2][1]

* Players take turns, starting with the first player and moving clockwise, to purchase recipe cubes, basic ingredient or item cards, premium ingredient or item cards, or distillery upgrade cards.[2]

* On your turn, you may purchase one cube or card, or you may pass.[2]

* You can make multiple purchases in this phase, but only one at a time.[2]

* Once you have passed, you may not make any further purchases this round.[2]

* When purchasing, take the item from the market and pay the market cost by returning money from your personal supply to the general supply.[2]

* Place recipe cubes on your recipe clipboard.[2]

* Place ingredient cards in your pantry or directly into your washback.[2]

* Place item cards in your storeroom.[2]

* Place distillery upgrades on one of the three upgrade spaces.[2]

* Note: You can only purchase two cards from the basic market each round.[2]

* After purchasing a face-up card from the premium market, refill the market by sliding cards to the right and drawing a new card from the deck to fill the leftmost space.[2]

* After all players have passed, discard the rightmost face-up card from each premium market row (or two in a two-player game) to the truck, then shift cards and refill the leftmost space.[3] (In solo play, this is replaced by discarding cards based on the revealed B goal card [4]).

2. Distill Phase

* Distill a spirit using ingredients, add a barrel, and claim a spirit label.[1]

* (Example process: A player may shuffle ingredients together, remove the top and bottom cards to return to the pantry, and use the remaining spirit stack to determine the distilled spirit [5]).

3. Sell Phase

* Bottle and sell spirits, score SP, receive money, and take label bonuses.[1]

4. Aging/End of Round

* Age spirits in your warehouse to add flavor and prestige.[1]

* At the end of each round, check if any spirit awards have been fulfilled, hold tastings, advance the round marker, and pass the first player token clockwise.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook · p.4 · PLAYER SETUP · GAME OVERVIEW · ROUND OVERVIEW · Each round is made up of four phases: · 2. Distill Phase · 3. Sell Phase · …

[2] RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook · p.6 · GAMEPLAY · 1. MARKET PHASE

[3] RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook · p.6 · MARKET CLEAN UP

[4] RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook · p.12 · SOLO GAMEPLAY

[5] RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook · p.7 · DISTILL PHASE EXAMPLE: RUM

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 105 ms · ask 7308 ms · total 14351 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 6936 ms · generation 7415 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP · GAME OVERVIEW · ROUND OVERVIEW · Each round is made up of four phases: · 2. Distill Phase · 3. Sell Phase · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 376}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY · 1. MARKET PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 376}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MARKET CLEAN UP", "sharpsignalDocId": 376}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SOLO GAMEPLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 376}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "DISTILL PHASE EXAMPLE: RUM", "sharpsignalDocId": 376}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 376 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 376 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 0.91032 of 1929 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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	SOLO GAMEPLAY	p.12	0.048412 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)		p.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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	GAMEPLAY · 1. MARKET PHASE	p.6	0.045002 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)		p.3	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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	MARKET CLEAN UP	p.6	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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	SOLO GAMEPLAY	p.12	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
#7	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	COMMONLY FORGOTTEN RULES:	p.10	0.030679 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	END OF ROUND	p.8	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

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 38 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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	GAMEPLAY · 1. MARKET PHASE	p.6	#3	0.045002 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	PLAYER SETUP · GAME OVERVIEW · ROUND OVERVIEW · Each round is made up of four phases: · 2. Distill Phase · 3. Sell Phase · …	p.4	#9	0.029877 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)		p.3	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	MARKET CLEAN UP	p.6	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	DISTILL PHASE EXAMPLE: RUM	p.7	#22	0.0125 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	COMMONLY FORGOTTEN RULES:	p.10	#7	0.030679 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	SOLO GAMEPLAY	p.12	#1	0.048412 (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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	SOLO GAMEPLAY	p.12	#6	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))	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 Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	PLAYER SETUP · GAME OVERVIEW · ROUND OVERVIEW · Each round is made up of four phases: · 2. Distill Phase · 3. Sell Phase · …	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	GAMEPLAY · 1. MARKET PHASE	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	MARKET CLEAN UP	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	SOLO GAMEPLAY	p.12	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Distilled — Rulebook (corpus doc 376)	DISTILL PHASE EXAMPLE: RUM	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 105 ms · first delta 3016 ms · total 14351 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 6936 ms · retrieval 105 ms · ask 7308 ms · gateway work 7415 ms · total 14351 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3479
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 569
tok/sec: 131.7 tok/sec — 569 output tokens in 4.319 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 6s 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 305), 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.