Ruling — Welcome to Everdell

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The game takes place over 4 rounds.[1] Each round consists of the following steps:

1. Roll Dice: The player with the Sun Token rolls the Resource Dice and places them back on the board, one die per location.[2]

2. Gather Goodies: Each player activates all of the Green cards they have already played beside their Home boards, in any order.[2] (Green cards activate when played during the game, and again during this step of each subsequent round).[2]

3. Take Turns: Starting with the player who has the Sun Token, players take turns in clockwise order.[2]

* A player places 1 of their Friends onto a location on the board to perform that action.[2]

* Placing a Friend on the top 3 spaces allows you to take one of the resources shown above that space.[3]

* Placing a Friend on a Resource Dice space allows you to take the resources and/or points shown on the die at that space.[3]

* Placing a Friend on a Red card you own allows you to gain the resources or perform the action shown.[3]

* After placing a Friend, the player may play 1 card from below the board by paying its cost.[2]

* After playing a card, the player takes the top Parade Token for any new Parades they qualify for (if they do not already have it).[2]

* The next player on the left takes their turn.[2]

* This continues until each player has taken 3 turns.[2]

4. Return Home: After each player has taken 3 turns, all 3 Friends are returned to each player's Home Board.[4]

5. Move the Sun and Moon Tokens: The Sun Token is passed to the right, so the player who went last in the previous round goes first in the next round.[4] The Moon Token is moved to the next spot to indicate the start of the next round.[4]

The game ends after the last player has taken their final turn in round 4.[5]

To determine the winner:

1. Trade in any leftover resources to the game board for point tokens at a rate of 1 Point Token for every 2 resources.[5]

2. Take bonus Point Tokens for each Purple card held at the end of the game as described on the card.[5]

3. Count all points from cards, Parade Tokens, and Point Tokens.[5]

4. The player with the most points wins; if there is a tie, the player with the most points on their cards wins.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook · p.4 · How to Play

[2] RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook · p.5 · 1. Roll Dice · 2. Gather Goodies · 3. Take Turns

[3] RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook · p.7 · Placing Friends

[4] RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook · p.6 · 4. Return Home · 5. Move Sun and Moon Tokens

[5] RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook · p.10 · End of the Game · Trade Resources · Purple Bonus Points · Total Your Points

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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 217 ms · ask 4099 ms · total 4319 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4319 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1275 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1275 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 0.91872 of 1784 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 09:33 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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	How to Play	p.4	0.048172 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Playing Cards	p.8	0.047883 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	1. Roll Dice · 2. Gather Goodies · 3. Take Turns	p.5	0.047619 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Playing Cards · Parades	p.9	0.046696 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	4. Return Home · 5. Move Sun and Moon Tokens	p.6	0.046402 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Setup · Setup with Younger Children	p.2	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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)		p.13	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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Placing Friends	p.7	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 25 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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	How to Play	p.4	#1	0.048172 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	1. Roll Dice · 2. Gather Goodies · 3. Take Turns	p.5	#3	0.047619 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Playing Cards · Parades	p.9	#4	0.046696 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Placing Friends	p.7	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	End of the Game · Trade Resources · Purple Bonus Points · Total Your Points	p.10	#11	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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Setup · Setup with Younger Children	p.2	#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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	4. Return Home · 5. Move Sun and Moon Tokens	p.6	#5	0.046402 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Playing Cards	p.8	#2	0.047883 (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 Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	How to Play	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	1. Roll Dice · 2. Gather Goodies · 3. Take Turns	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	Placing Friends	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	4. Return Home · 5. Move Sun and Moon Tokens	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Welcome to Everdell — Rulebook (corpus doc 1275)	End of the Game · Trade Resources · Purple Bonus Points · Total Your Points	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 217 ms · first delta 1544 ms · total 4319 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 217 ms · ask 4099 ms · gateway work 4319 ms · total 4319 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2044
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 549
tok/sec: 201.0 tok/sec — 549 output tokens in 2.732 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 6s 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 1205), 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.