Ruling — Jaipur

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How do I play?

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To play Jaipur, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Sort tokens by goods type into piles in descending order of value, spreading them so both players can see all values.[1]

2. Sort bonus tokens by type, shuffle each type separately, and form 3 piles.[1]

3. Place the camel token next to the bonus tokens.[1]

4. Place 3 camel cards faceup between the players.[2]

5. Shuffle the remaining cards and deal 5 cards to each player.[2]

6. Place the remaining cards facedown as a draw pile (deck).[2]

7. Fill the market to 5 cards by drawing 2 cards from the deck and placing them faceup next to the camels.[2]

8. Players remove any camels from their hands and place them faceup in a stack in front of them to form their herd.[2]

9. Pick a starting player.[1]

Game Turn

On your turn, you must choose one of the following actions, but never both:[1]

Option 1: Take Cards

You must choose one of these three specific options:[3][4]

1. Take 1 single good: Take a single goods card from the market into your hand, then replace it with the top card of the deck.[3]

2. Take several goods (the EXCHANGE option): Take all the goods cards you want into your hand (they can be different types), then exchange the same number of cards.[3][4] The returned cards can be camels, goods, or a combination of the two, but you cannot exchange just 1 card for 1 (2 or more are required) and the same goods type cannot be both taken from and returned to the market.[3][5]

3. Take all the camels: Take all the camels from the market and add them to your herd.[3]

*Note: When taking cards, you may take goods or camels, but never both.[5] Players may never have more than 7 cards in their hands at the end of their turn, though camels do not count toward this limit.[3][5] *

Option 2: Sell Cards

1. Choose one type of goods and discard as many cards of that type as you like into the discard pile.[6]

2. Take one token for each card sold, starting with the highest values first, and stack them in front of you.[6]

3. If you sell 3 or more cards, take the corresponding bonus token.[6]

4. If selling the 3 most expensive goods (silver, diamonds, gold), the sale must include a minimum of 2 cards.[6]

5. You can only sell one goods type each round.[6]

Ending a Round and the Game

1. A round ends when both players have taken an action.[1]

2. The player with the most camels in their herd receives the camel token (worth 5 rupees); if both players have the same number, neither takes it.[7][5]

3. Players flip their tokens over and add them up to determine the richest trader.[7]

4. The richest trader receives a Seal of Excellence; in a tie, the seal goes to the player with the most bonus tokens, or if still tied, the player with the most goods tokens.[7]

5. If neither player has 2 Seals of Excellence, play another round, with the player who lost the previous round starting.[7]

6. The game ends when a player collects 2 Seals of Excellence, making them the winner.[2][7]

[1] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP · GAME TURN

[2] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.2 · INTRODUCTION AND AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.4

[4] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.4 · TAKE CARDS · B: Take several goods · IMPORTANT

[5] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.7 · REMINDERS AND NOTES · NB: It is best to read this after your first game.

[6] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.5 · SELL CARDS · 2 · Restrictions during a sale

[7] RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook · p.6 · A round ends immediately if: · NEW ROUND · END OF THE GAME

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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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.

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#1	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SETUP · GAME TURN	p.3	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	A round ends immediately if: · NEW ROUND · END OF THE GAME	p.6	0.04598 (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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	TAKE CARDS · B: Take several goods · IMPORTANT	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
#4	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	INTRODUCTION AND AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP	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
#5	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)		p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SELL CARDS · 2 · Restrictions during a sale	p.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))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	REMINDERS AND NOTES · NB: It is best to read this after your first game.	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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	Sébastien Pauchon · Vincent Dutrait · CONTACT INFORMATION	p.8	0.029412 (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 8 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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SETUP · GAME TURN	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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	INTRODUCTION AND AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP	p.2	#4	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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)		p.4	#5	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
#4	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SELL CARDS · 2 · Restrictions during a sale	p.5	#6	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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	Sébastien Pauchon · Vincent Dutrait · CONTACT INFORMATION	p.8	#8	0.029412 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	REMINDERS AND NOTES · NB: It is best to read this after your first game.	p.7	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	A round ends immediately if: · NEW ROUND · END OF THE GAME	p.6	#2	0.04598 (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 Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	TAKE CARDS · B: Take several goods · IMPORTANT	p.4	#3	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SETUP · GAME TURN	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	INTRODUCTION AND AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	TAKE CARDS · B: Take several goods · IMPORTANT	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	REMINDERS AND NOTES · NB: It is best to read this after your first game.	p.7	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	SELL CARDS · 2 · Restrictions during a sale	p.5	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Jaipur — Rulebook (corpus doc 187)	A round ends immediately if: · NEW ROUND · END OF THE GAME	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 83 ms · first delta 1266 ms · total 5102 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 83 ms · ask 5017 ms · gateway work 5102 ms · total 5102 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2482
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 770
tok/sec: 203.0 tok/sec — 770 output tokens in 3.794 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 4s 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 105), 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.