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Each player turn consists of four phases, which are always resolved in this exact order: [1]
1. Draft: If your Potency track is empty, you must choose any die on the main game board and place it on the corresponding position of your Potency track based on the number of dice in the bowl you drafted from.[1] You may optionally spend one Ethereal Die token to move the drafted die one space left on the Potency track, though you cannot exceed a maximum Potency of 5.[1] Immediately after drafting, you turn the die into a different symbol.[1] You may also choose to draft a new die and retire an existing die to your used dice area if you wish.[1]
2. Action: Perform your main action.[2][1]
3. Opponent Reactions: After your action, other players may perform exactly one of several reactions (such as gaining materials, essences, transmuting, or recharging an Artifact) by flipping one of their face-up Reaction tokens.[3]
4. Lab Cleanup: Check the position of the die on your Potency track; if it is on 0, move it to the used dice box on your Laboratory Board.[2] If your used dice box now contains 3 dice, move your Turn Order marker to the first open position on the New Round Order track.[2]
Additionally, during your turn, you may perform any number of free actions (immediately before or after your main action, but not interrupting it) in any order:[3]
* Purchase a Formula from your Laboratory board and place it in your Vault.[3]
* Sample a face-up Formula in your Vault by flipping it face down to use its special ability.[3]
* Perform an Experiment placed next to your board or a Masterpiece Experiment by paying its material cost.[3]
[1] RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook · p.9 · Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting
[2] RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook · p.13 · Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round
[3] RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook · p.12 · Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important:

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outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile
live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings
search 94 ms · ask 4079 ms · total 4175 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 4175 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 776 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 776 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 0.93147 of 1357 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded
Sep 2, 2026 23:03 UTC

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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round p.13 0.047643 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting 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
#3 RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Rolling Dice and Filling Bowls p.8 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important: p.12 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Placing Formulas in the Vault · Important: · Publication Card Hand p.19 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
#6 RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Advanced Planning Variant p.22 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
#7 RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Player Setup p.8 0.029851 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Important Transmutation rules to remember · Important: · Performing Experiments p.17 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 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 41 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round p.13 #1 0.047643 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting p.9 #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
#3 RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Important Transmutation rules to remember · Important: · Performing Experiments p.17 #8 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#4 RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Transmutations and Artifact Activation p.16 #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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Moving up a Track · Completing Experiments · Opponent Reactions Phase · Lab Clean-up Phase · End of Round p.25 #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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Botmegistus, the solo opponent · Setup for solo play · Gameplay Changes p.22 #34 0.010638 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Advanced Planning Variant p.22 #6 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important: p.12 #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

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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting p.9 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round p.13 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important: p.12 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 94 ms · first delta 2198 ms · total 4175 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 94 ms · ask 4079 ms · gateway work 4175 ms · total 4175 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3967
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
383
tok/sec
199.4 tok/sec — 383 output tokens in 1.921 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 712), 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.