Ruling — Queendomino

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How do I play?

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To play the game, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Line up the first 4 dominoes numerically, terrain side down, with the lowest number at the top and the highest at the bottom.[1]

2. Flip the dominoes over so the terrain side is exposed.[1]

3. Determine the initial player order by having one player pull Kings from their hand one at a time; the first King pulled indicates which player selects first.[1]

4. Players select their first domino in that order, placing their King on a free domino to claim it.[1]

5. Once all 4 dominoes are claimed, select 4 new dominoes from the draw pile, line them up numerically terrain side down next to the selected ones, and flip them over.[1] (Note: In a 3 player game, discard the last unselected domino every round).[1]

A Turn

The playing order for a round is determined by the position of the Kings in the line of dominoes.[2][1] Players must take the following actions in the outlined order, noting that only A and E are mandatory:[1]

1. (Mandatory) Add your selected domino to your kingdom: Add the domino according to the connection rules, where at least 2 connecting squares must have the same terrain type.[3] A kingdom may not be more than 5x5 squares for 3-4 players or 7x7 squares for 2 players.[3] If a domino does not fit the dimensions or terrain, it must be discarded.[3]

2. (Optional) Have 1 or 2 Knights collect tax: If you have Knights available, you may place a Knight on the domino you just added to immediately collect a Coin value equal to the number of connecting squares in that territory.[4]

3. (Optional) Construct a building: If you have an open red construction square, you may choose a Building Tile from the Builders' Board, pay the construction price, and add it to your kingdom.[5]

4. (Optional) Bribe the Dragon: If the Dragon is still in its cave and you are not hosting the Queen, you may pay 1 Coin to remove a Building Tile from the Builders' Board and replace it with the Dragon.[6]

5. (Mandatory) Select a new domino: Select any available domino in the next line and place your King on top of it to claim it.[6]

Starting a New Round

After all players have taken their actions, prepare the next round by:

1. Sending the Dragon back to its cave.[6]

2. Sliding remaining Building Tiles on the Builders' Board to the cheapest spots and filling empty spots from the draw pile.[6]

3. Forming a new line of dominoes next to those already claimed by selecting 4 new dominoes from the draw pile, lining them up numerically terrain side down, and flipping them over.[6] (Note: In a 3 player game, discard the last unselected domino every round).[6]

End of the Game

1. The game lasts a total of 12 rounds.[6]

2. When the last 4 dominoes are lined up, all players take a final turn, carrying out only actions A through D.[7]

3. If you are hosting the Queen, place her on your largest territory, where she counts as an extra crown.[7]

4. Calculate final scores using the Scoring Pad, including:

* Wealth: 1 point for every 3 unused Coins.[7]

* Territories with crowns: The number of connecting terrain squares multiplied by the total number of crowns in that territory.[8][7]

* Detached territory bonus: 2 points for each individual territory.[5]

* Tower bonus: 1 point for each Tower.[5]

* Knight bonus: 1 point for each Knight in your kingdom (used or unused).[5]

5. The player with the highest score wins; in a tie, the player with the largest territory wins; if still tied, players share the victory.[8]

[1] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.3 · STEP 2 · Playing the Game

[2] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.6 · Play in teams :

[3] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.3 · A - Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules · A - (Mandatory) Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules:

[4] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.4 · B - (Optional) H ave 1 or 2 Knights collect tax on the domino you just placed · Upper left corner : Immediate effects · Lower left corner : Effects active during the game

[5] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.4 · C - (Optional) Construct a building on an open red construction square · Upper right corner : Crowns · Lower right corner : Value of a building at the end of the game

[6] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.5 · D - (Optional) Bribe the Dragon into burning a Building Tile on the Builders' Board · E - (Mandatory) Select a new domino in the next line with your King Meeple · Starting a New Round

[7] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.5 · End of the Game

[8] RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook · p.6 · End of the Game · ♦ Value of buildings in towns: · Variations with Kingdomino · Play individually :

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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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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#2	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	Play in teams :	p.6	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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	A - Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules · A - (Mandatory) Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules:	p.3	0.047371 (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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game · ♦ Value of buildings in towns: · Variations with Kingdomino · Play individually :	p.6	0.046244 (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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game	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
#6	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	D - (Optional) Bribe the Dragon into burning a Building Tile on the Builders' Board · E - (Mandatory) Select a new domino in the next line with your King Meeple · Starting a New Round	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
#7	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	Introduction	p.1	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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	Object of the Game · Contents:	p.2	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 12 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	Play in teams :	p.6	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game · ♦ Value of buildings in towns: · Variations with Kingdomino · Play individually :	p.6	#4	0.046244 (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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	A - Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules · A - (Mandatory) Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules:	p.3	#3	0.047371 (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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	B - (Optional) H ave 1 or 2 Knights collect tax on the domino you just placed · Upper left corner : Immediate effects · Lower left corner : Effects active during the game	p.4	#10	0.014286 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	C - (Optional) Construct a building on an open red construction square · Upper right corner : Crowns · Lower right corner : Value of a building at the end of the game	p.4	#9	0.014493 (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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	D - (Optional) Bribe the Dragon into burning a Building Tile on the Builders' Board · E - (Mandatory) Select a new domino in the next line with your King Meeple · Starting a New Round	p.5	#6	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 Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game	p.5	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	STEP 2 · Playing the Game	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	STEP 2 · Playing the Game	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	Play in teams :	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	A - Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules · A - (Mandatory) Add your selected domino to your kingdom according to the connection rules:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	B - (Optional) H ave 1 or 2 Knights collect tax on the domino you just placed · Upper left corner : Immediate effects · Lower left corner : Effects active during the game	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	C - (Optional) Construct a building on an open red construction square · Upper right corner : Crowns · Lower right corner : Value of a building at the end of the game	p.4	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	D - (Optional) Bribe the Dragon into burning a Building Tile on the Builders' Board · E - (Mandatory) Select a new domino in the next line with your King Meeple · Starting a New Round	p.5	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game	p.5	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Queendomino — Rulebook (corpus doc 142)	End of the Game · ♦ Value of buildings in towns: · Variations with Kingdomino · Play individually :	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 85 ms · first delta 1386 ms · total 12418 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 6630 ms · retrieval 85 ms · ask 5702 ms · gateway work 5788 ms · total 12418 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3329
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 875
tok/sec: 201.6 tok/sec — 875 output tokens in 4.340 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 45s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 4s 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 64), 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.