Ruling — dnup — RuleSage

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How do I play?

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Setup

1. Remove all cards with the ¢, 3, and @2 symbols.[1][2]

2. Remove cards from the deck based on the number of players: 5 players: No cards are removed (use all cards in the deck); 4 players: Remove all cards with the [incomplete info].[3]

3. Give a Player Aid card to each player.[3]

4. Before each round, shuffle the cards and deal them all out between the players.[2]

5. Each player takes the cards in front of them without showing the other players.[3]

6. Each player places 2 Player Aid cards of the same color in front of them.[2]

A Turn

1. The player with the card featuring the # symbol begins the round with only one turn, using their Play Area 2.[2]

2. The player with the card featuring the we symbol begins the round.[3]

3. Players take turns in clockwise order.[3]

4. Each player takes two consecutive turns: one for Play Area 1, then another for Play Area 2.[2]

5. For each of these turns, discard any set in the related Play Area.[2]

6. Perform EXACTLY ONE of these four actions:[3]

* Play a set of cards from your hand in front of you; however, if another player already has a set of the same size as the one you wish to play, your set must have a higher value.[4] If you play a set of any other size (2, 4, 5, etc.), you may do so regardless of value.[4] If your set is of the same size but lower value than an existing set, the other player must return all cards from their set to their hand, rotating each card as they do so.[4]

* Add exactly 1 card from your hand to a set placed in front of an opponent.[1] The value of the card played must match the value of the set to which it is added.[1] If, by adding your card, the set now has the same size as another set on the table, the value of the set you are adding to must be greater than the value of the other set.[1] If the new set is lower-valued, the player with that lower-valued set must return it to their hand, rotating each card as they do so.[1]

* Take a set of cards placed in front of an opponent and add it to your hand, rotating each card as you do so.[1]

* Rotate all the cards in your hand.[3] (Note: You may rearrange cards in your hand as you wish, but you may not rotate cards in your hand; they must remain in the same orientation as when you picked them up [3]).

7. The turn then proceeds to the player on your left.[3]

End of the Round

1. The first player to play the last card(s) from their hand wins 2 letter tokens and takes no more turns this round.[1][5]

2. The first player's cards remain in front of them for one set of turns before being discarded (when it would have been the player's next turn).[1][5] If a higher-value set beats them while they are still in play, those cards are simply discarded.[1][5]

3. The second player to play their last card(s) wins 1 letter token, and the round ends immediately.[1][5][2]

End of the Game

1. The first player to get 4 or more letter tokens immediately wins the game.[1][5][2]

2. The first player to win 2 rounds wins the game.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook · p.1 · CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND

[4] RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook · p.1 · EXAMPLE

[5] RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook · p.2 · EXAMPLE

Settled. Play on.

🔧 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 81 ms · ask 7479 ms · total 19689 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 12128 ms · generation 7561 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 2, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "The second player to play their last card(s) wins 1 letter token, and the round ends immediately. END OF THE GAME The first player to get4 or more letter tokens immediately wins the game. anvp Setup: Remove all cards with the ¢.), 3), and @2)symbols. Each player places 2 Player Aid cards of the same", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.047883, "snippet": "40 Cards + 5 Player Aid cards « 16 Letter tokens « This Rulebook Be the first to get rid of all your cards. Place sets of cards in front of you and hope that your opponents don't play a better set before your next turn! Remove cards from the deck based on the number of players: > 5 players: No cards", "headingPath": "CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "Play a set of cards from your hand in front of you. However, if another player already [ea | has set of the same size as the one you wish to play, your set must havea higher value. In this case, the other player must return all of the cards from their set to their hand (rotating each card as they do", "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "B ADD1CARD TOA SETIN FRONTOF AN OPPONENT You may play exactly 1 card from your hand and add it to a set placed in front of Hal ‘an opponent, following these rules: > Thevalue of the card played must match the value ofthe set to which itisadded. > If, by adding your card to a set, it now has the same", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.046154, "snippet": "END OF THE ROUND The first player to play the last card(s) from their hand wins 2 letter tokens and takes no more turns this round. However, their cards remain in front of them for one set of turns before being discarded (when it would have been the player's next turn). Ifa higher-value set beats th", "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 213 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 213 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 0.89022 of 2423 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 17:47 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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND	p.1	0.047883 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	0.047123 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.2	0.046154 (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 5 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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.1	#3	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
#2	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	#4	0.047123 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.2	#5	0.046154 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	#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
#5	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND	p.1	#2	0.047883 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND	p.1	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.1	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213)	EXAMPLE	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 81 ms · first delta 1496 ms · total 19689 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 12128 ms · retrieval 81 ms · ask 7479 ms · gateway work 7561 ms · total 19689 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2021
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 809
tok/sec: 134.1 tok/sec — 809 output tokens in 6.032 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 7s 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 138), 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.