Ruling — Puerto Rico

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How do I take my turn?

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The rules for taking a turn depend on the specific phase of the game:

General Role Card Turns

1. The player with the governor card begins the round.[1]

2. The active player takes one of the role cards and places it face-up next to their player board.[1]

3. The active player takes the action allowed by that role card.[1]

4. Following the active player, other players take the action allowed by that same role card in clockwise order until every player has taken the action once.[1]

5. The next player (the left neighbor of the previous card-taker) takes a new role card, places it face-up, and takes the action allowed by that card, with others following in clockwise order.[1]

6. This continues until all players have taken a role card and all players have taken the actions allowed by the cards taken.[1]

7. A player must always take a role card when it is their turn, though they may choose not to use the card's action or privilege (except for the captain).[1]

8. The action of a role card is always taken first by the player who took the card, followed by others in clockwise order (with the exception of the prospector).[1]

Captain Phase (Shipping Goods)

1. The captain is the first to load goods on the cargo ships.[2][3]

2. Other players follow in clockwise order from the captain.[2][3]

3. On a player's turn, they must load goods if they can.[2][3]

4. A player may only load one kind of goods on a turn.[2][3]

5. When loading a kind of goods, the player must load as many of that kind as they can.[2][3]

6. If a player has goods that can be loaded on several empty ships, they must choose the ship where they can load the most goods, leaving none behind if possible.[2][3]

7. If a player has several kinds of goods that can be loaded, they may choose which goods to load freely.[2][3]

8. A player may choose to use their wharf to "load" goods on an imaginary ship instead of a cargo ship.[4]

Trader Phase (Selling Goods)

1. The player who chooses the trader role may immediately sell one good to the trading house.[5]

2. Following the trader, each other player may sell one good to the trading house in clockwise order.[5]

3. The phase ends when all players have had one turn to sell or when the trading house is full.[5]

Settler Phase

1. The owner of an occupied hacienda may, before taking a face-up plantation tile, take an additional tile from the face-down stack and place it on an empty space on their island.[6]

2. The owner of an occupied construction hut may place a quarry on their island instead of one of the face-up plantation tiles.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.3 · PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:

[2] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.6 · THE CAPTAIN (captain phase k shipping of goods) · Loading/shipping rules · Victory points

[3] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.6

[4] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.11 · Wharf · The large buildings · Guild hall · Residence · Fortress

[5] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.5 · THE TRADER (trader phase k selling goods) · Notes:

[6] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.9 · Notes: · The violet buildings · Small market · Hacienda · Construction hut

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 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 140 ms · ask 4948 ms · total 5089 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5089 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 238 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 238 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 0.90638 of 2115 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 05:44 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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.6	0.045921 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE CAPTAIN (captain phase k shipping of goods) · Loading/shipping rules · Victory points	p.6	0.045228 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE TRADER (trader phase k selling goods) · Notes:	p.5	0.044796 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · THE PROSPECTORS · A new round...	p.7	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
#6	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	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
#7	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GAME END	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))	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 25 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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE CAPTAIN (captain phase k shipping of goods) · Loading/shipping rules · Victory points	p.6	#3	0.045228 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	#7	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
#5	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE TRADER (trader phase k selling goods) · Notes:	p.5	#4	0.044796 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Wharf · The large buildings · Guild hall · Residence · Fortress	p.11	#11	0.028219 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · The violet buildings · Small market · Hacienda · Construction hut	p.9	#10	0.028324 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.6	#2	0.045921 (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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE CAPTAIN (captain phase k shipping of goods) · Loading/shipping rules · Victory points	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Wharf · The large buildings · Guild hall · Residence · Fortress	p.11	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE TRADER (trader phase k selling goods) · Notes:	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · The violet buildings · Small market · Hacienda · Construction hut	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 140 ms · first delta 1825 ms · total 5089 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 140 ms · ask 4948 ms · gateway work 5089 ms · total 5089 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3681
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 645
tok/sec: 201.8 tok/sec — 645 output tokens in 3.197 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s 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 164), 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.