Ruling — Grand Austria Hotel

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Grand Austria Hotelbg-182874-en-1e

To play, follow these steps:

1. At the start of each round, the start player (the player with the turn order tile showing '1') takes and rolls all the dice, sorts them by the rolled number, and places them on the corresponding action spaces on the action board.[1]

2. Play proceeds around the table in increasing numerical order as indicated by the turn order tiles.[2]

3. When it is your turn, you can either take a turn or pass.[2]

4. If you decide to take a turn, you must carry out the following two actions in this exact order:

* Optional: Take a guest card from the queue and place it in your café.[2] If you do, pay the cost associated with that guest by moving the marker on your money track down accordingly and place the guest at an empty table in your café.[2] If all three tables are occupied, you must first empty a table or skip this action.[2] After taking a guest, slide the remaining guests in the queue to the right and draw a new guest card from the deck to the left.[2]

* Mandatory: Take a die from an action space that has at least one die and carry out the associated main action.[2]

5. Before, after, and between these two actions, you can take any number of additional actions, any number of times, provided you are not in the middle of another action.[3][2]

6. If you choose to pass, you postpone your turn until the dice have been re-rolled.[4] You must wait until all other players have also passed or taken both of their turns.[4]

7. When all players have passed or completed both turns, take the remaining dice from the action board, remove one die by placing it in the dustbin, and re-roll the rest, distributing them on the action spaces as before.[4]

8. Continue play with the player who has the lowest number showing on their turn order tile.[4]

9. Play continues according to the numbers on the turn order tiles until all players have taken their two turns or there are no more dice left to re-roll.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook · p.5 · Personal Play Area

[2] RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook · p.6 · Personal Play Area · Taking a Turn · 1. Taking a Guest

[3] RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook · p.8 · · Playing a Staff Card · · Imitating a Main Action · Additional Actions · · Serving Items

[4] RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook · p.10 · Passing

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 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 156 ms · ask 17263 ms · total 17421 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 17421 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Personal Play Area", "sharpsignalDocId": 288}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Personal Play Area · Taking a Turn · 1. Taking a Guest", "sharpsignalDocId": 288}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "· Playing a Staff Card · · Imitating a Main Action · Additional Actions · · Serving Items", "sharpsignalDocId": 288}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Passing", "sharpsignalDocId": 288}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 288 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 288 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 0.93042 of 1581 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 27, 2026 02:34 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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area · Taking a Turn · 1. Taking a Guest	p.6	0.047493 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area	p.4	0.046239 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area	p.5	0.044854 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Passing	p.10	0.044758 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	4 hotel boards (double-sided)	p.4	0.044408 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Game End and Final Scoring	p.12	0.04207 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Emperor Scoring	p.11	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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Staff Cards	p.13	0.030092 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area	p.4	#2	0.046239 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area	p.5	#3	0.044854 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	4 hotel boards (double-sided)	p.4	#5	0.044408 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Guest Cards	p.16	#11	0.029116 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Guest Cards	p.17	#12	0.026989 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Passing	p.10	#4	0.044758 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	· Playing a Staff Card · · Imitating a Main Action · Additional Actions · · Serving Items	p.8	#10	0.029387 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area · Taking a Turn · 1. Taking a Guest	p.6	#1	0.047493 (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 Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Personal Play Area · Taking a Turn · 1. Taking a Guest	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	· Playing a Staff Card · · Imitating a Main Action · Additional Actions · · Serving Items	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Grand Austria Hotel — Rulebook (corpus doc 288)	Passing	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 156 ms · first delta 2256 ms · total 17421 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 156 ms · ask 17263 ms · gateway work 17421 ms · total 17421 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3455
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 457
tok/sec: 30.3 tok/sec — 457 output tokens in 15.094 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 32s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 1s 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 217), 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.