Ruling — Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

On your turn, you must perform one of the following actions: [1] 1. Advance a pattern [1] 2. Move your glazier back to above your leftmost pattern strip, provided he is not already there (note that you cannot move him above an empty slot) [2] If you choose to pick pane pieces, you must follow these steps: [3] 1. Pick pane pieces of one color [3] - You can pick all pane pieces of one color from any one Factory display and then move any remaining pane pieces from this Factory display to the center of the table, then move your glazier back to the leftmost pattern strip and check if the pattern is complete [4] - Or, you can pick all pane pieces of one color from the center of the table [4]. If you are the first player in the round to do this, you also take the starting player tile from the center, place it next to your palace board, and have the player in charge of the scoring board move your marker on the broken glass track 1 space down [4] 2. Place the pane pieces on one of your pattern strips [3] - The pieces must be placed onto spaces of the same pattern strip [5] - This can be the strip directly beneath your glazier or any strip to his right (never those to his left) [5] - If you choose a strip to the right, you must first move your glazier to that strip [5] - If there are not enough empty matching spaces on the chosen strip, excess pieces are considered broken and your marker on the broken glass track moves one space down [5] - You must place pieces on a strip with at least one empty matching space that your glazier can reach, even if you would prefer to drop them all on the floor [5] 3. (Step 3 is not provided in the sources) [3] If, after step 2, one or more pattern spaces of the strip beneath your glazier are still empty, your turn is over [6]. However, if each of the strip's 5 spaces contains a pane piece, you must carry out these steps: [6] 1. Check for color bonus points by counting how many pieces on your completed strip match the top piece of the round indicator and gain that many points on the score track [6]

[1] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.3 · Playing the game

[2] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.5 · B) Move your glazier back to the leftmost pattern strip

[3] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.3 · A) Advance a pattern

[4] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.3 · Step 1- Pick pane pieces of one color

[5] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.4 · Step 2 - Place the pane pieces on one of your pattern strips

[6] RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook · p.4 · Step 3- Check if the pattern is complete

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 254 ms · ask 6403 ms · total 6665 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6665 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "B) Move your glazier back to the leftmost pattern strip", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "A) Advance a pattern", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Step 1- Pick pane pieces of one color", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Step 2 - Place the pane pieces on one of your pattern strips", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Step 3- Check if the pattern is complete", "sharpsignalDocId": 96}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
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)
debug row retained until: Oct 30, 2026 03:11

retrieval — what the search arm returned

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 rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Playing the game	p.3	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the round	p.5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	B) Move your glazier back to the leftmost pattern strip	p.5	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
#4	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 3- Check if the pattern is complete	p.4	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
#5	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	End of the game	p.5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 1- Pick pane pieces of one color	p.3	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
#7	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	A) Advance a pattern	p.3	0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded)	166
#8	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Diffif iculties distinguishing the colors of the pane pieces?	p.6	0.014706 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Playing the game	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	B) Move your glazier back to the leftmost pattern strip	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	A) Advance a pattern	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 1- Pick pane pieces of one color	p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 2 - Place the pane pieces on one of your pattern strips	p.4	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — Rulebook (corpus doc 96)	Step 3- Check if the pattern is complete	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 254 ms · first delta n/a · total 6665 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 254 ms · ask 6403 ms · gateway work 6665 ms · total 6665 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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.

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 27), 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.