Ruling — Dominion

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How do I play?

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Setup

1. Randomly choose a starting player; if you just played a game that was not a tie, the previous winner goes last.[1]

2. Each player draws an initial hand of 5 cards.[1]

3. Each player has their own deck, discard pile, hand of cards, and play area.[1]

A Turn

Each turn consists of three phases (ABC):

I. Action Phase

1. You can play one Action card from your hand.[1]

2. To play an Action card, announce it, move it to your "in play" area, and follow its instructions in order from top to bottom.[1]

3. If a card has a dividing line, stop there; instructions below the line happen at a different time.[1]

4. If you cannot do everything a card tells you to do, do as much as you can.[1]

5. Some cards provide "+1 Action" or "+2 Actions," which increases the number of Action cards you can play this turn.[1]

6. You must finish resolving the current card before playing additional Action cards granted by "+1 Action" effects.[2][1]

7. Using Actions is optional.[3]

II. Buy Phase

1. You can play any number of Treasure cards from your hand in any order.[4]

2. Play Treasures by moving them to the "in play" area to gain coins based on the card's value.[4]

3. After playing Treasures, you can buy one card (or more if you have "+1 Buy" effects) that costs as much as or less than your available coins.[4]

4. To buy a card, choose it from the Supply and "gain" it by moving it to your discard pile.[4]

5. You cannot play more Treasures after you have bought a card.[4]

III. Clean-up Phase

1. Sweep up all cards from your play area and your hand.[1]

2. Discard all these cards.[1]

3. Draw a new hand of 5 cards, shuffling as needed.[1]

Ending the Game

1. The game ends after 3 piles are empty or the Province pile is empty.[1]

2. Players count up all of their cards.[1]

3. The player with the most wins.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook · p.4

[2] RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook · p.7 · "+1 Action" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.

[3] RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook · p.4

[4] RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook · p.5

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 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 90 ms · ask 6141 ms · total 6234 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6234 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 4, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "Randomly choose a starting player. If you have just played a game of Dominion and it was not a tie, have the player who won the previous game go last (the player to their left goes first). Each player draws an initial hand of 5 cards. Dominion is a game of building a deck of cards. Each player has t", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.047493, "snippet": "When a card tells you to play a card, that does not use up an Action play for the turn. As with playing a card normally, you follow the instructions in order, stopping at a dividing line when there is one. As always, played cards go into play, not directly into the discard pile.", "headingPath": "\"Play a card\" - Put a card into play, and follow the instructions on it.", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.04741, "snippet": "For example if you start a turn by playing Throne Room on Village, you would draw a card, get +2 Actions, draw another card, and get +2 Actions again, leaving you with 4 Actions. If you Throne Room a Throne Room, you may play an Action card twice, then may play another Action card twice; you do not ", "headingPath": "1st turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.046635, "snippet": "First you can play any number of Treasure cards from your hand, in any order. Treasure cards say \"Treasure\" on the bottom and have a yellow banner. You play one by moving it to the \"in play\" area; you probably will not announce your Treasures, though you can if you want. The Treasures have no text, ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.046394, "snippet": "Cards become \"in play\" when played, and usually stay there until discarded from play in Clean-up. Only played cards are in play; set aside cards, cards in the trash, in the Supply, in hands, etc., are not in play.", "headingPath": "\"In play\" - Being in a player's play area.", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.044589, "snippet": "When this happens, it just adds to the number of Action cards you can play; you finish resolving the current card before actually playing more Action cards. Actions are only usable in the Action phase. When you have multiple Actions, it can be helpful to say the number out loud to remember it. Some ", "headingPath": "\"+1 Action\" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030159, "snippet": "Laboratory: You draw 2 cards and get +1 Action. Library: You look at cards one at a time, putting each one into your hand or setting it aside, until you have 7 cards in hand; then you discard the set aside cards. If you shuffle in the middle of doing this, you do not shuffle in the set aside cards. ", "headingPath": "1st turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "You draw the card immediately. If you have to draw more cards than are left in your deck, you shuffle your discard pile, put it under your deck, and then draw. If there still are not enough cards to draw, you just draw as many as you can.", "headingPath": "\"+1 Card\" - Draw a card.", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "\"+1 Action\" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 102 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 102 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 0.86412 of 1494 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 16:13 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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.4	0.047875 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"Play a card" - Put a card into play, and follow the instructions on it.	p.8	0.047493 (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))	279
#3	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	1st turn	p.14	0.04741 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.5	0.046635 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"In play" - Being in a player's play area.	p.7	0.046394 (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))	213
#6	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"+1 Action" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.	p.7	0.044589 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	1st turn	p.13	0.030159 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"+1 Card" - Draw a card.	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))	238

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 45 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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"Play a card" - Put a card into play, and follow the instructions on it.	p.8	#2	0.047493 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"+1 Action" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.	p.7	#6	0.044589 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.4	#1	0.047875 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	1st turn	p.14	#3	0.04741 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"Gain a card" - Take a card from the Supply and put it into your discard pile.	p.7	#18	0.025816 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"In play" - Being in a player's play area.	p.7	#5	0.046394 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.5	#4	0.046635 (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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.4	#12	0.028624 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)	"+1 Action" - You may play an additional Action card this turn.	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102)		p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 90 ms · first delta 2422 ms · total 6234 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 90 ms · ask 6141 ms · gateway work 6234 ms · total 6234 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2033
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 508
tok/sec: 134.9 tok/sec — 508 output tokens in 3.766 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 0s 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 33), 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.