Ruling — One Night Ultimate Werewolf

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How do I play?

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To play, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Determine the number of players and ensure there are 3 more cards than players.[1]

2. Select roles, which can include any combination of cards.[1]

3. Place a token in the center of the table that corresponds to each of the cards in the game.[1]

Night Phase (Role Wake Order)

The roles wake up at night in the following order:[2]

1. Doppelganger:[2] The player looks at one other player's card and takes on that role and team.[3][4] If the viewed card is the Seer, Robber, Troublemaker, or Drunk, the Doppelganger performs that role's action immediately.[4] If the viewed card is a Werewolf or Mason, the player wakes up when those roles are called.[4] If the viewed card is a Villager, Tanner, or Hunter, the player does nothing.[4] If a Minion is in the game, the player is told to keep their eyes open if they are now the Minion, otherwise they close them, and Werewolves stick out their thumbs.[4] If an Insomniac is in the game, the Doppelganger wakes up after the Insomniac to check if their card has changed.[4]

2. Werewolves:[2] The Werewolves open their eyes and look for other Werewolves; if no one else opens their eyes, the other Werewolves are in the center.[5][4]

3. Minion:[2] The Minion wakes up to see which players are Werewolves by having the Werewolves stick out their thumbs.[6][5]

4. Masons:[2] The Masons wake up and look for other Masons; if they do not see another Mason, the other Mason card is in the center.[6]

5. Seer:[2] The Seer may look at one other player's card or two of the center cards without moving them.[6]

6. Robber:[2] The Robber may choose to exchange his card with another player's card and then view his new card.[6]

7. Troublemaker:[2] The Troublemaker may switch the cards of two other players without looking at them.[7]

8. Drunk:[2] The Drunk must exchange his card for any card in the center, but does not look at the new card.[8]

9. Insomniac:[2] The Insomniac wakes up to look at their card to see if it has changed.[8]

*Note: If both a Doppelganger and Insomniac are in the game, the Doppelganger-Insomniac phase occurs after the Insomniac closes their eyes.[4] *

No-Wake Roles

The following roles do not wake up at night:[8][2]

* Villager

* Tanner

* Hunter

[1] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.2 · ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT

[2] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.6 · NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK

[3] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.2 · DOPPELGANGER

[4] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.3 · DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF

[5] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.3 · 'Werewolves, wake up and look for other Werewolves.' · ~- MINION

[6] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.4 · ~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER ))

[7] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.4 · y) TROUBLEMAKER

[8] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.5 · y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · …

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 87 ms · ask 4523 ms · total 4613 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4613 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 193 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 193 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 0.89293 of 1868 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 29, 2026 19:10 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER	p.2	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
#2	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT	p.2	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
#3	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER	p.4	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
#4	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER ))	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF	p.3	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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · …	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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	PLAYTESTERS · THE ORIGINAL ONE NIGHT WEREWOLF	p.5	0.030415 (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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK	p.6	0.030366 (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 10 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT	p.2	#2	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
#2	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER ))	p.4	#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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER	p.4	#3	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
#4	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · …	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
#5	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK	p.6	#8	0.030366 (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
#6	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER	p.2	#1	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
#7	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	'Werewolves, wake up and look for other Werewolves.' · ~- MINION	p.3	#9	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
#8	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF	p.3	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER	p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF	p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	'Werewolves, wake up and look for other Werewolves.' · ~- MINION	p.3	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER ))	p.4	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER	p.4	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193)	y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · …	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 87 ms · first delta n/a · total 4613 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 87 ms · ask 4523 ms · gateway work 4613 ms · total 4613 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3386
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 624
tok/sec: 202.1 tok/sec — 624 output tokens in 3.088 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 42s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 0s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: requested, but the gateway emitted no delta — the whole answer arrived at once (the child's stream flag off, or a non-streaming backend)
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 111), 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.