Ruling — Rococo

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Rococo is played over 7 Rounds.[1] Each Round consists of 4 Phases:[1]

Phase 1: Prepare for new Round [1]

1. If a player acquired the Queen's Favor in the previous Round, they return the Queen's Favor token to its space on the board in exchange for the Gold Thimble Start Player token; if no one acquired it, the Start Player remains the same.[1]

2. Remove any remaining Employee cards in the Hire New Employees display from the previous Round.[1]

3. Draw 4 new Employee cards from the top of the New Employees draw deck and place them faceup in the Hire New and New Employees display.[1]

4. In Rounds 1 through 6, the highest revealed Level number indicates the current Round (in Round 7, the deck is empty after the final four Level VI cards are placed).[1]

5. Fill empty spaces in the Resource display with new Resource tiles drawn randomly from the Resource bag and placed faceup from left to right; if the bag is empty, return used tiles from the discard area to the bag and mix them.[1]

6. Fill the Garment Design display with Garment tiles drawn randomly from the Garment bag; first discard any tiles in the 2 rightmost spaces from the previous Round, then shift remaining tiles to the right to fill empty spaces, and finally fill remaining empty spaces from right to left with tiles placed with the Design Pattern side faceup.[1]

Phase 2: Select 3 Employee Cards [1]

1. Each player simultaneously and secretly selects 3 Employee cards from their Employee supply (the facedown stack on the left side of the Player board).[1]

2. Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game, if a player has 0, 1, or 2 cards in their Employee supply, they must first take all remaining cards into their hand, then move all faceup cards from their Employee discard to the Employee supply to use this new supply to select enough cards to bring their hand up to exactly 3 cards.[2]

Phase 3: Perform Actions [3][4]

1. Beginning with the Start Player and following in clockwise order, each player in turn plays exactly 1 of their Employee cards in hand (as long as they have any).[4]

2. The played card is placed faceup in the Employee discard stack on the right side of the Player board.[4]

3. The player may then perform 1 Main action.[4] The available actions depend on the Employee's training level:

* Master: Can perform any of the 6 Main actions.[4]

* Journeyman: Cannot perform "Hire a New Employee".[4]

* Brass Thimble and Frame: Cannot perform "Hire a new Employee," "Claim the Queen's Favor," or "Tailor a Garment".[4]

4. After the Main action (or if forfeited), the player may use the Employee Bonus action depicted on the card.[4]

5. This phase continues until all players have played all cards in their hand.[4]

Phase 4: Receive Income [1]

[1] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.6 · Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …

[2] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.6 · Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):

[3] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.14 · o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS

[4] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.7 · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS · Note: · Apprentice · Notes:

Rule found, game 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 88 ms · ask 5561 ms · total 5652 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5652 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 429 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 429 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 0.91283 of 2283 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 26, 2026 20:38 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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	0.048172 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS · Note: · Apprentice · Notes:	p.7	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
#3	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	7. Complete the Journeyman Examination May only be perforMed by an apprentIce · Note: · 8. Complete the Master Examination May only be perforMed by a JourneyMan	p.15	0.047163 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Claim the Queen's Favor · 2. Acquire Resources · OR · Note: · Example:	p.7	0.046147 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	0.045009 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …	p.6	0.043009 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	p.6	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	END OF GAME · 3. Majority in each of the 5 Halls · 4. Majority in Fireworks · 6. Statues	p.11	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 36 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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	#1	0.048172 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	p.6	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Claim the Queen's Favor · 2. Acquire Resources · OR · Note: · Example:	p.7	#4	0.046147 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …	p.17	#11	0.028068 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	#5	0.045009 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …	p.6	#6	0.043009 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	7. Complete the Journeyman Examination May only be perforMed by an apprentIce · Note: · 8. Complete the Master Examination May only be perforMed by a JourneyMan	p.15	#3	0.047163 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS · Note: · Apprentice · Notes:	p.7	#2	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS · Note: · Apprentice · Notes:	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 88 ms · first delta 2141 ms · total 5652 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 88 ms · ask 5561 ms · gateway work 5652 ms · total 5652 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4335
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 682
tok/sec: 200.6 tok/sec — 682 output tokens in 3.399 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s 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 358), 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.