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Does the Spotted Sandpiper's power still work the printed way, or was it corrected?

Refused — the rulebook doesn't cover this counted as refused

Answered before

This question didn't get an answer just now — but Wingspan has been asked something like it before. The corpus may have changed since, so check the date and the answerer on each one before you rule from it.

The rulebook doesn't appear to cover this cleanly — but here are the closest passages retrieved, in case they help you rule.

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.3 · Setup
Split the players into 2 groups at the same table (3+3 for a 6-player game or 3+4 for a 7-player game). These groups remain fixed for the entire game. Replace all Global Components setup steps with the following: Turn-order dial. Place the turn-order dial in the middle of the table. The dial has two
OFFICIAL Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · p.1 ·
5 WHEN ACTIVATED: the deck. BirdCards_r13.indd 31 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius 38cm All players draw 1 from These sandpipers constantly bob their tails; people call them teeter-peeps and tip-tails. 1/15/19 9:33 PM
RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion · p.2 · Bird Powers
This expansion introduces a new set of powers that trigger at the end of each round. WS_EE_BirdCard-1_r7.indd 22 Round end (teal): These powers are resolved when all turns in the round have been completed, but before scoring the goal for that round. Resolve them in player order, starting with the pl
RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.10 · Duet Mode Gameplay
When you play a bird onto your player mat, place the Duet token from that spot onto an unclaimed space on the Duet map that matches the bird you played. 'Matching the bird' means: The space must be in the region of the Duet map that corresponds to the habitat where you played the bird. The symbol on
RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.10 · ONCE BETWEEN TURNS (pink):
These powers may be triggered on opponents' turns. You can only use a pink power once between each of your own turns (if an opponent triggers it). We recommend telling other players what the power is, and what activates it. Players should help each other notice when a bird with a pink power should b

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
outcome
REFUSED_NO_RETRIEVAL — Refused — the rulebook doesn't cover this
corpus profile
live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
unset-dev (corpus lane freezes the deploy value)
timings
search 113 ms · ask 2230 ms · total 2343 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 2343 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
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citations (raw)
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
gate not evaluated for this ruling (boost, supersedence, and wrench all off at ask time), and the base-rulebook arm went unrecorded for the same reason — the wrench that would have stored it was off; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=false, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=false
answered-before recall
past answered rulings were found and offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
  • ruling 41 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
  • ruling 44 — matched by trigram similarity — measured similarity 0.6543
debug row retained until
Oct 7, 2026 16:10

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) Setup p.3 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#2 OFFICIAL Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) (corpus doc 65) p.1 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 221
#3 RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion (corpus doc 47) Bird Powers p.2 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#4 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) Duet Mode Gameplay p.10 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#5 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) ONCE BETWEEN TURNS (pink): p.10 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) 300
#6 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) ONCE BETWEEN TURNS (pink): p.12 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) 300
#7 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion (corpus doc 51) ROUND END (TEAL): p.9 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) 300
#8 RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) ROUND END (TEAL): p.13 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) 300

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
timing split
retrieval 113 ms · first delta n/a · total 2343 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 113 ms · ask 2230 ms · gateway work 2343 ms · total 2343 ms
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s ago)
stream path
not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
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.
outcome
REFUSED_NO_RETRIEVAL — Refused — the rulebook doesn't cover this
abstain rationale
the answerer offered no rationale text with this refusal (or the ruling predates the abstain_rationale column, V41)
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against

  • anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
  • belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
  • ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
  • oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
  • photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
  • rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4

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.