Ruling — The Gallerist

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The game is played over a series of rounds, beginning with the Start Player.[1] Players take turns in clockwise order.[2]

On a Player's turn:

1. The Player may choose to take one of two "Executive Actions" either before or after performing their Location action.[1]

2. The Player moves their Gallerist to one of the four Locations on the game board.[1] If the Player is in their Gallery, they can choose any Location.[1] If the Player is already at a Location, they MUST MOVE their Gallerist pawn to a different Location.[1]

3. If a Player moves from one Location to another, they may leave behind one of their Assistants on the space the Gallerist pawn is moving from.[1]

4. The Player performs one of the two available actions at the chosen Location.[2][1]

5. If a Player moves their Gallerist to a Location where another Player is present, that Player is "Kicked-Out" and performs a special "Kicked-Out Action" after the current Player has finished their turn.[1]

Location Actions include:

* Artists Colony: Players can either discover a new Artist or buy a Work of Art from an already discovered Artist.[2]

* Sales Office: A Player can take a contract card from the available display or, if they have a matching contract, sell a Work of Art.[2]

* Media Center: A Player can hire extra Assistants or promote an Artist in the media to increase their Fame and earn a bonus.[2]

Ending the Game:

The sequence of play continues until at least two of the following conditions are met:

* The box office is empty of tickets.[1]

* Two or more Artists have become Celebrities.[1]

* The bag is empty of Visitors.[1]

Once two or more conditions occur, the current round continues until the last player finishes their turn.[1] Then, beginning with the Starting Player, each player gets one more turn as normal (with the exception that if a Player is Kicked-Out, they simply send their piece home and do not perform a Kicked-Out action).[1] Final scoring takes place, and the Player with the most money wins.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook · p.5 · Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions

[2] RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook · p.4 · Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies

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 96 ms · ask 4619 ms · total 17193 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 12475 ms · generation 4718 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 291 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 291 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 0.91255 of 1681 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 22:56 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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	0.048916 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	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
#5	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Action: Sell a Work of Art · To sell a Work of Art, a Player completes the following steps: · Example:	p.10	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.1	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
#7	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Artists Colony · following these steps: · To buy a Work of Art, a Player follows these steps: · Important reminder: · Commission space: · Reminder about commissions:	p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market · Note:	p.12	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 39 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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	#4	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
#2	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	#3	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
#3	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Example:	p.11	#16	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
#4	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Action: Sell a Work of Art · To sell a Work of Art, a Player completes the following steps: · Example:	p.10	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Example:	p.6	#18	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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	4th Art Gallery slot: · Attention: · Example:	p.9	#17	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
#7	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.4	#2	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	#1	0.048916 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 96 ms · first delta 2253 ms · total 17193 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 12475 ms · retrieval 96 ms · ask 4619 ms · gateway work 4718 ms · total 17193 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3907
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 479
tok/sec: 199.3 tok/sec — 479 output tokens in 2.404 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 9s 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 220), 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.