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The game is played through the following actions and mechanics:
Player Actions
* Exploring: Players move ships to explore sea regions.[1] To enter unknown waters containing an explorer, a minimum of 2 ships is required to enter simultaneously;[2] one of those ships is lost.[2] The player who first enters such a region is rewarded with an explorer and a cash premium.[1] The player also reveals the colony tokens in that region and receives a bonus from the bank equal to the price of the cheapest revealed colony.[3] It is not possible to explore more than one new sea region per turn.[3]
* Founding Colonies: A player may found one or more new colonies.[3] To do so, they must have at least one of their own ships in the same region and two workers in Lisboa.[3] The player pays the prices printed on the colony tokens to the bank and takes the tokens into their personal supply.[3]
* Building: Players may build new factories, shipyards, and churches by paying the respective prices printed on the chart to the bank.[4] Building requires a specific number of workers: 3 per new factory, 4 per new shipyard, and 5 per new church.[4] The player's total number of workers must be sufficient to cover all new buildings being built.[4]
* Recruiting Workers: Players can recruit new workers via churches.[1] The cost is 1 worker per church for 50 each, with more workers costing 100 in phase I, 200 in phase II, and 300 in phase III.[5]
* Taking Privileges: A player may choose one privilege from the gallery on the game board in return for losing one worker in Lisboa.[6] No more than one privilege token can be taken per turn.[6] A player cannot take a privilege if they have only 2 workers, as players must always have at least two workers in Lisboa.[6]
* Market Actions: Players may sell goods from their colonies on the market.[4] For each colony, one unit of goods may be sold.[4] For each unit sold, the player receives the current market price, after which the price marker moves down the market.[4] Alternatively, players can take goods from the market to process them with their factories.[4]
Game Progression and End
* Phases: The movement range of ships increases with phases: up to 1 region in phase I, up to 2 regions in phase II, and up to 3 regions in phase III.[5]
* Ending the Game: The game end is triggered when the sea region of Nagasaki has been explored or after the last building has been taken.[7] After the trigger, every player (including the one who triggered it) takes one final turn.[7]
* Scoring and Winning: Players count victory points (VPs) based on achievements such as colonies, factories, shipyards, churches, and explorers.[1] Additional VPs are earned for each worker, each ship, and every full amount of 200 Cruzados.[1] The player with the most victory points wins.[1] In the event of a tie, the player who currently holds the Navegador wins (or the next player in turn order if the Navegador is not held).[7]
[1] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.3 · SUMMARY · End of game:
[2] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.5 · Example: · Explorer:
[3] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.6 · PLAYER'S ACTIONS · Example: · COLONY
[4] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.7 · BUILDINGS · Example: · MARKET · Selling goods with colonies
[5] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.12 · ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR · Necessary workers:
[6] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.8 · PLAYER'S ACTIONS · PRIVILEGE · Example:
[7] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.9 · END OF THE GAME · SCORING

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🔧 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 100 ms · ask 4921 ms · total 13441 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 8418 ms · generation 5023 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 407 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 407 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 0.90682 of 2479 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded
Aug 29, 2026 18:48 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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) Wooden Pieces · Cardboard Pieces · ACTION SELECTION · Example: · AT START p.4 0.048652 (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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR p.11 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
#3 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) END OF THE GAME · SCORING p.9 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
#4 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) SET UP · 1. Market · 2. Players · 3. Colonies · 4. Privileges · 5. Dangerous sea regions · … p.3 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
#5 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) GAME PHASES · NAVEGADOR p.9 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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) PLAYER'S ACTIONS · PRIVILEGE · Example: p.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)) 300
#7 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) SUMMARY · End of game: p.3 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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) Quick intro p.12 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 18 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) SUMMARY · End of game: p.3 #7 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#2 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) SET UP · 1. Market · 2. Players · 3. Colonies · 4. Privileges · 5. Dangerous sea regions · … p.3 #4 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#3 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) PLAYER'S ACTIONS · PRIVILEGE · Example: p.8 #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
#4 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) BUILDINGS · Example: · MARKET · Selling goods with colonies p.7 #17 0.012987 (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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR · Necessary workers: p.12 #14 0.013514 (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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) Example: · Explorer: p.5 #13 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
#7 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) PLAYER'S ACTIONS · Example: · COLONY p.6 #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
#8 RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) END OF THE GAME · SCORING p.9 #3 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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

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
[1] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) SUMMARY · End of game: p.3 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) Example: · Explorer: p.5 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) PLAYER'S ACTIONS · Example: · COLONY p.6 no quote on the wire
[4] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) BUILDINGS · Example: · MARKET · Selling goods with colonies p.7 no quote on the wire
[5] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR · Necessary workers: p.12 no quote on the wire
[6] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) PLAYER'S ACTIONS · PRIVILEGE · Example: p.8 no quote on the wire
[7] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407) END OF THE GAME · SCORING p.9 no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split
retrieval 100 ms · first delta 1455 ms · total 13441 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 8418 ms · retrieval 100 ms · ask 4921 ms · gateway work 5023 ms · total 13441 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3384
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
711
tok/sec
202.4 tok/sec — 711 output tokens in 3.512 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 17s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage)
reachable (for 22h, checked 5s 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 336), 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.