Ruling — Scholars of the South Tigris

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Scholars of the South Tigris is played over an undetermined number of Rounds.[1] Each Round consists of each player taking a single turn, starting with the first player and proceeding in clockwise order.[1] The game continues until all 4 Caliph Cards have been revealed, at which point the current Round is completed and one final Round is played, followed by scoring.[1]

On each turn, players must choose to either Work or Rest:[1]

Working

Working allows players to play an Action Card along with 1-2 Dice to take actions.[1] To Work, players must follow these steps:

1. Place 1 Action Card from their hand onto an empty Action Slot of their Player Board.[1]

2. Place 1 or 2 Dice from their hand onto the played Action Card.[1]

3. Place Workers to alter Dice, and optionally resolve available actions in any order.[1]

Players use their Dice and Workers to create a colour and value for their main action, which can be any of the 6 primary/secondary colours or White, and will always be valued between 1-12.[1] Players may underspend their pips, meaning the action's value is considered "up to" that amount.[1]

Resting

Resting allows players to:

* Gain income from Research Tracks.[1]

* Draw Dice.[1]

* Collect back all their Action Cards.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook · p.8 · gameplay overview · work: overview · Action Cards and Action Slots · Action Colour and Value

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🔧 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 75 ms · ask 3190 ms · total 3267 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3267 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 21, "score": 0.047619, "snippet": "Set up Scholars as you would for a 2-player game, with the following changes: Give your opponent the Solo Board instead of a Player Board. After selecting your Starting Translator and Resource Card, select a difficulty from those provided on the back of the Solo Board. Follow the steps as listed for", "headingPath": "Setup · Gameplay Overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.046676, "snippet": "When it is their turn to chose, players must place 1 of their Influence on the top-left corner of their chosen Starting Translator. After doing so, they must collect the Resource Card below it, and step through its listed icons from top to bottom. As each player resolves their Resource Card, they sh", "headingPath": "aim of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.046343, "snippet": "Follow these steps to complete setup: Decide as a group whether you will play the Casual or Epic version of the game. For first time players, especially at higher player counts, we recommend the Casual version. This does not change any rules. It just removes a few Scroll Cards from the Draw Pile to ", "headingPath": "aim of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.045455, "snippet": "Follow these steps to set up Scholars of the South Tigris: Place the Main Board in the middle of the play area. 1 Shuffle each Deck of Translator Cards separately (each Deck features the same character illustration on every Translator Card). Place each Deck into the indicated space along the top of ", "headingPath": "aim of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 24, "score": 0.045262, "snippet": "While they do not move the Neutral Marker, they act as if they would have, just like you moving your Player Marker. As such, they won't target the Scroll Card adjacent to the Neutral Marker, unless they do a full loop around the Map. When Delivering their chosen Scroll Card, they will aim to place i", "headingPath": "solo play", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.044776, "snippet": "The game end is triggered when all 4 Caliph Cards have been revealed. At this point the current Round is continued, and then 1 final Round is played (the player seated to the right of the player holding the First Player Marker will have the last turn). If in these final Rounds, the Scroll Card Draw ", "headingPath": "end of game · Dice Sum", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 24, "score": 0.044118, "snippet": "For these last 3 Scheme Cards, check to see if there are 3 or 5+ Scroll Cards in the House of Wisdom . If there are, they will Translate. Use their language focus when Translating a Scroll Card. If there are multiple options available, they will decide between those options by selecting the Scroll C", "headingPath": "solo play", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "When taking the Travel action, players will be moving their Player Markers in a clockwise direction around the Map. How far they move is determined by their action's value. The colour of their action is not vital. However, it can provide players with a small benefit if they cross over the path match", "headingPath": "Employ", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "gameplay overview · work: overview · Action Cards and Action Slots · Action Colour and Value", "sharpsignalDocId": 505}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 505 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 505 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 0.90778 of 1041 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 07:47 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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	Setup · Gameplay Overview	p.21	0.047619 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.5	0.046676 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.5	0.046343 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.4	0.045455 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	solo play	p.24	0.045262 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	end of game · Dice Sum	p.20	0.044776 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	solo play	p.24	0.044118 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	Employ	p.11	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

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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.5	#3	0.046343 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	Setup · Gameplay Overview	p.21	#1	0.047619 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.4	#4	0.045455 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	solo play	p.24	#7	0.044118 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	Resolving Scheme Cards	p.23	#36	0.010417 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	aim of the game	p.5	#2	0.046676 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	gameplay overview · work: overview · Action Cards and Action Slots · Action Colour and Value	p.8	#9	0.030886 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	solo play	p.24	#5	0.045262 (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 Scholars of the South Tigris — Rulebook (corpus doc 505)	gameplay overview · work: overview · Action Cards and Action Slots · Action Colour and Value	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 75 ms · first delta 1683 ms · total 3267 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 75 ms · ask 3190 ms · gateway work 3267 ms · total 3267 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3942
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 306
tok/sec: 200.5 tok/sec — 306 output tokens in 1.526 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 3s 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 436), 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.