Ruling — Sagrada

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Sagradabg-199561-en-1e

Sagrada is played over 10 rounds.[1]

Setup

1. Each player receives 1 Player Board and matching Score Marker.[2]

2. Each player receives 2 Window Pattern Cards at random.[2]

3. Each player receives 1 Private Objective Card at random, which they look at secretly and place face-down.[2]

4. Each player chooses one of their four window patterns and slides the card into the bottom of their Player Board with the selected side facing forward.[2]

5. Each player takes the number of Favor Tokens indicated on the chosen window pattern's bottom right.[2]

6. Place the Round Track near the center of the play area.[2]

7. Shuffle the Tool Cards and place 3 face-up near the Round Track.[2]

8. Shuffle the Public Objective Cards and place 3 face-up near the Round Track.[2]

9. Put the appropriate number of dice in the Dice Bag and shake them (50 dice for 2 players, 70 dice for 3 players, or all 90 dice for 4 players).[2]

10. Choose a Start Player.[2]

A Turn

1. The Start Player pulls dice from the Dice Bag at random and rolls them to form the Dice Pool; the number of dice depends on the number of players (2 players: 5 dice; 3 players: 7 dice; 4 players: 9 dice).[1]

2. Players take two turns each round, beginning with the Start Player and proceeding in clockwise order, then back around counterclockwise.[1]

3. On your turn, you take 1 die from the Dice Pool and place it in an open space in your window.[1]

4. The first die placed must be on an edge or corner space; every other die must be adjacent to an already-placed die, either sharing an edge or diagonally.[1]

5. A placed die must match the color or value requirement of the space (White spaces may have any color or value; Color spaces must match the printed color; Value spaces must match the printed value).[1]

6. A die may never be placed next to a die of the same color or value sharing an edge (side-by-side or above/below).[1]

7. Optionally, you may use 1 Tool Card by spending Favor Tokens (1 or 2 tokens) at any time during your turn.[1][3]

8. If you cannot place the die you took, return it to the Dice Pool and end your turn.[1]

End of Round

1. The round ends once all players have taken their 2 turns.[3]

2. Place all remaining dice on the Round Track; use one die to cover the number of the completed round.[3]

3. Pass the Dice Bag to the player on the current Start Player's left, who becomes the Start Player for the next round.[3]

End of Game and Scoring

1. The game ends at the end of the 10th round.[4]

2. To score, add up the Old Master's score by tallying the value of all dice on the Round Track.[4]

3. Calculate your own score by adding points from Public Objective Cards and Private Objective Cards, and adding 1 VP for each remaining Favor Token, then subtracting 1 VP for each open space in your window.[5] (Note: One source also states to subtract 3 VP for each empty space in your window [4]).

4. If your score is higher than the Old Master's, you win.[4]

5. In the event of a tie, the winner is the player with the most points from their Private Objective; if still tied, the player with the most remaining Favor Tokens wins; if still tied, the last player in turn order wins.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook · p.4 · HOW TO PLAY 3 · DICE PLACEMENT RULES · WINDOW PATTERN REQUIREMENTS · The Golden Rule of Sagrada

[2] RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook · p.3 · Give each player: · Each player: · GAME SETUP 2

[3] RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook · p.5 · PLACING DICE (CONTINUED) · TOOL CARDS & FAVOR TOKENS · END OF ROUND

[4] RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook · p.7 · END OF GAME SCORING

[5] RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook · p.6 · END OF GAME · SCORING · TIEBREAKERS · SCORING EXAMPLE

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 82 ms · ask 5310 ms · total 5393 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5393 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY 3 · DICE PLACEMENT RULES · WINDOW PATTERN REQUIREMENTS · The Golden Rule of Sagrada", "sharpsignalDocId": 185}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Give each player: · Each player: · GAME SETUP 2", "sharpsignalDocId": 185}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLACING DICE (CONTINUED) · TOOL CARDS & FAVOR TOKENS · END OF ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 185}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF GAME SCORING", "sharpsignalDocId": 185}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF GAME · SCORING · TIEBREAKERS · SCORING EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 185}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 185 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 185 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 0.89642 of 2597 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 27, 2026 20:48 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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	Give each player: · Each player: · GAME SETUP 2	p.3	0.04866 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	SOLO PLAY: DEFEAT THE OLD MASTER · SET UP · GAMEPLAY · CREDITS · END OF ROUND	p.7	0.048387 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	HOW TO PLAY 3 · DICE PLACEMENT RULES · WINDOW PATTERN REQUIREMENTS · The Golden Rule of Sagrada	p.4	0.048139 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)		p.1	0.046394 (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))	282
#5	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME SCORING	p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	PLACING DICE (CONTINUED) · TOOL CARDS & FAVOR TOKENS · END OF ROUND	p.5	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
#7	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	DICE PLACEMENT MISTAKES	p.4	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
#8	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME · SCORING · TIEBREAKERS · SCORING EXAMPLE	p.6	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 10 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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	HOW TO PLAY 3 · DICE PLACEMENT RULES · WINDOW PATTERN REQUIREMENTS · The Golden Rule of Sagrada	p.4	#3	0.048139 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)		p.1	#4	0.046394 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME SCORING	p.7	#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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	PLACING DICE (CONTINUED) · TOOL CARDS & FAVOR TOKENS · END OF ROUND	p.5	#6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME · SCORING · TIEBREAKERS · SCORING EXAMPLE	p.6	#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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	DICE PLACEMENT MISTAKES	p.4	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	Give each player: · Each player: · GAME SETUP 2	p.3	#1	0.04866 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	SOLO PLAY: DEFEAT THE OLD MASTER · SET UP · GAMEPLAY · CREDITS · END OF ROUND	p.7	#2	0.048387 (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 Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	HOW TO PLAY 3 · DICE PLACEMENT RULES · WINDOW PATTERN REQUIREMENTS · The Golden Rule of Sagrada	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	Give each player: · Each player: · GAME SETUP 2	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	PLACING DICE (CONTINUED) · TOOL CARDS & FAVOR TOKENS · END OF ROUND	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME SCORING	p.7	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Sagrada — Rulebook (corpus doc 185)	END OF GAME · SCORING · TIEBREAKERS · SCORING EXAMPLE	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 82 ms · first delta 1248 ms · total 5393 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 82 ms · ask 5310 ms · gateway work 5393 ms · total 5393 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2803
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 830
tok/sec: 202.4 tok/sec — 830 output tokens in 4.100 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 12s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, 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 103), 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.