Ruling — Praga Caput Regni

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Praga Caput Regnibg-308765-en-1e

Setup

1. Turn the wheel so that the white arrow points to the icon depicting the number of players.[1]

2. Place the six action tiles in the first six empty slots, starting with the first red slot on the top of the Crane, ensuring none are in the blue zone.[1]

3. Place one turn-counting cube on the wheel in the space shown.[1]

4. Place the other turn-counting cube on the space of the platform corresponding to the number of players.[1]

Gameplay

1. The starting player is the one who was most recently in Prague, or you can choose randomly.[2]

2. Players take turns in order, clockwise around the table.[2]

3. Start your turn by deciding which action to take.[2]

4. Choose one action tile from the action crane that depicts your chosen action.[2]

5. Perform one action, and possibly one extra action.[2]

6. When taking a tile, you gain the opportunity to buy an egg; if you have gold, you can buy it immediately, or you can use an action to earn gold first and then buy it.[2]

7. If you choose a tile from the red zone, you must immediately pay the cost depicted on the board; if you cannot pay, you cannot take that tile.[2]

8. If you choose a tile from the blue zone, score the number of points depicted on the board.[2]

9. End your turn by rotating the action crane and returning the action tile.[2]

10. At the end of your turn, discard down to 2 windows if you have more than 2.[3]

11. At the end of your turn, rotate the wheel of the action crane one space clockwise (unless the arrow is in a specific position, in which case rotate 2 spaces).[3]

12. At the end of your turn, place your action tile in the empty space at the beginning of the red zone (if blocked by the square box, rotate the wheel one more space).[3]

13. If a tile rotates beyond the blue zone, remove it and place it in the first open space in the green zone, which is worth 5 points.[3]

Game End and Scoring

1. The game ends when each player has taken 16 turns.[2]

2. Midway through the game, the building, wall, and upgrade tiles are replaced by Era II tiles.[2]

3. Gain points based on the following:

* Points for the number of eggs left (e.g., 4 or more eggs earns 10 points).[4]

* Points for height on the Charles University track.[5]

* 3 points for each upgrade tile owned.[5]

* 2 points for each wall tile owned.[5]

* Points based on the row achieved on the Hunger Wall and the Cathedral.[5]

* Points equal to the number of gold mines.[5]

* Points equal to the number of quarries.[5]

4. The winner is the player with the most points; in a tie, the player who started later wins.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook · p.5 · Game Overview

[2] RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook · p.7 · Game Overview · Choosing an Action Tile · Bonuses from the Wheel · Costs and Bonuses for Position

[3] RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook · p.15 · At the end of your turn, you do the following: · Counting Turns

[4] RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook · p.16 · 6. Leftover Eggs

[5] RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook · p.19 · Bridge Tiles · Plaza Tiles

The book has spoken.

🔧 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 220 ms · ask 5549 ms · total 5771 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5771 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game Overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 331}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game Overview · Choosing an Action Tile · Bonuses from the Wheel · Costs and Bonuses for Position", "sharpsignalDocId": 331}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "At the end of your turn, you do the following: · Counting Turns", "sharpsignalDocId": 331}, {"page": 16, "quote": null, "headingPath": "6. Leftover Eggs", "sharpsignalDocId": 331}, {"page": 19, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Bridge Tiles · Plaza Tiles", "sharpsignalDocId": 331}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 331 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 331 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 0.89451 of 2095 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 28, 2026 01:17 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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview	p.4	0.046432 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)		p.1	0.045921 (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))	13
#3	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	6. Leftover Eggs · Rules Reminders · Modifications	p.17	0.045805 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Technologies · Charles University · CHARLES BRIDGE EXAMPLE:	p.12	0.045476 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview · Choosing an Action Tile · Bonuses from the Wheel · Costs and Bonuses for Position	p.7	0.032787 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	At the end of your turn, you do the following: · Counting Turns	p.15	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
#7	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)		p.6	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
#8	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview	p.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))	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 34 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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	6. Leftover Eggs · Rules Reminders · Modifications	p.17	#3	0.045805 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)		p.1	#2	0.045921 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	6. Leftover Eggs	p.16	#17	0.013158 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	At the end of your turn, you do the following: · Counting Turns	p.15	#6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Bridge Tiles · Plaza Tiles	p.19	#15	0.013699 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview	p.5	#8	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
#7	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview · Choosing an Action Tile · Bonuses from the Wheel · Costs and Bonuses for Position	p.7	#5	0.032787 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Technologies · Charles University · CHARLES BRIDGE EXAMPLE:	p.12	#4	0.045476 (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 Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Game Overview · Choosing an Action Tile · Bonuses from the Wheel · Costs and Bonuses for Position	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	At the end of your turn, you do the following: · Counting Turns	p.15	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	6. Leftover Eggs	p.16	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Praga Caput Regni — Rulebook (corpus doc 331)	Bridge Tiles · Plaza Tiles	p.19	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 220 ms · first delta 2341 ms · total 5771 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 220 ms · ask 5549 ms · gateway work 5771 ms · total 5771 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2929
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 681
tok/sec: 201.6 tok/sec — 681 output tokens in 3.378 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 259), 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.