Ruling — Bruxelles 1893

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The game is played over five rounds, represented by five Exhibition tiles.[1] Each round comprises four phases: the Stock Exchange phase, the Action phase, the Resolution of the Turn phase, and the End of Turn phase.[1]

Setup and Round Start

1. The first player reveals the top Stock Exchange card of the deck and places it face-up atop the deck; this card determines the available play area of the Art Nouveau board for the coming round.[2]

2. The first player chooses one of two proposed shields from the Stock Exchange card.[1]

3. The first player places the Bracket tile on the chosen shield, oriented to designate the largest of the four areas created by the horizontal and vertical lines passing through the shield.[1]

4. This designated area is the available area of the Art Nouveau board for the current round.[1]

The Action Phase

1. Beginning with the first player and proceeding clockwise, each player performs one action until all players have passed.[1]

2. Players can choose an action from the available area of the Art Nouveau board or from the four actions of the Brussels board.[1]

3. To take an action on the Art Nouveau board, a player must place an Assistant pawn on an action space in the available area.[3]

4. The player must accompany the Assistant with a bid of at least 1 BF.[3]

5. A player may also place an Assistant on the Art Nouveau board simply to participate in an auction for a Bonus card located at the bottom of that column.[4]

6. Actions on the Brussels board are free, but the player who plays the most Assistant pawns on this board loses one at the end of the round.[2]

Specific Actions

* Creating a Work of Art: The player draws a Work of Art tile from the color Works of Art stack; if they possess one or more Exhibition tiles, they draw the same number of additional tiles.[3] The player then chooses one tile to place face-up in front of themselves and returns the others to the stack.[3]

* Construction: The player pays a construction cost (defined by the compass) to place a Building tile from their personal board onto an empty Action space on the Art Nouveau board.[5] The player must build tiles in a specific order: lower tiles, then middle tiles, then top tiles.[5]

* Sale: The player moves the Workshop cursor based on the number of works they have, chooses a work of a color not currently in the shop window, and receives money and VPs indicated by the cursor.[4] The sold tile is then placed in the shop window.[4]

Resolution and End of Turn

1. At the end of each round, the player who bid the most money in a column wins that column's auction and its Bonus card.[2]

2. At the end of the round, the player who played the most Assistant pawns on the Brussels board must explain themselves at the Courthouse and loses one Assistant.[2]

3. During the end of the round, players retrieve their played Assistant pawns, except those detained at the Courthouse.[6]

4. The money bid on Art Nouveau board action spaces returns to the general supply.[6]

5. The top Stock Exchange card from the previous round is discarded.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.4 · CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.3 · CONCEPT OF THE GAME

[3] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.5 · HOW TO PLAY · Workshop Action

[4] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.5 · Sale Action

[5] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.6 · Construction Action

[6] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.10 · 5. Majority on the Brussels board

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 559 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 559 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 0.92826 of 2551 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 28, 2026 02:29 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	HOW TO PLAY · Workshop Action	p.5	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Construction Action	p.6	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
#3	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Grand Plaza Action	p.7	0.046402 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY	p.4	0.046176 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	0.04598 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	APPENDIX 3 : 2-PLAYER GAME · Thanks:	p.12	0.045037 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Royal Theater Action · Two options are then available to him: · Materials Action · Compass rules	p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Sale Action	p.5	0.030769 (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 20 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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	HOW TO PLAY · Workshop Action	p.5	#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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY	p.4	#4	0.046176 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	#5	0.04598 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	5. Majority on the Brussels board	p.10	#9	0.029211 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Construction Action	p.6	#2	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
#6	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Sale Action	p.5	#8	0.030769 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	APPENDIX 3 : 2-PLAYER GAME · Thanks:	p.12	#6	0.045037 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	SETUP	p.2	#10	0.029199 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	HOW TO PLAY · Workshop Action	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Sale Action	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Construction Action	p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	5. Majority on the Brussels board	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 76 ms · first delta 1491 ms · total 5464 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 420 ms · retrieval 76 ms · ask 4966 ms · gateway work 5044 ms · total 5464 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3816
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 701
tok/sec: 201.5 tok/sec — 701 output tokens in 3.479 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 491), 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.