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Setup

1. Place the game board in the center of the playing area.[1]

2. Place the sarcophagi in the tomb chamber in the center of the game board.[1]

3. Place the Horus board and the scoring board next to the game board.[1]

4. Mix the scarabs face down and keep them above the Horus board as a general supply, along with the wild card treasure tiles and the keys.[1]

5. Put the die next to the game board.[1]

6. Each player chooses a color and takes the corresponding player marker, scoring marker, and 5 adventurers.[1]

7. Each player places 2 of their adventurers on the starting space (the stairs) in an upright position; these are "active".[1]

8. The remaining 3 adventurers start "inactive," placed lying down on the spaces next to each of the 3 Anubis statues.[1]

9. Place all scoring markers on the '0/100' space on the scoring track.[1]

10. Give the first player token to the youngest player.[1]

11. Shuffle the basic cards and deal 5 to each player; players must not change the order of these cards.[1]

12. The remaining cards form the draw pile in the center of the game board.[1]

13. Sort Horus cards by their levels and stack them face up on the corresponding spaces of the Horus board.[1]

Sequence of Play

1. The active player chooses either the leftmost or rightmost card in their hand and plays it.[2]

2. The player moves one of their adventurers forward into the temple a number of tiles corresponding to the number on the card.[2] (Note: If the card shows an icon, the player moves one adventurer one tile forward or backward;[3] if the card shows a die icon, the player rolls the die and then advances an adventurer that number of tiles [3]).

3. If an active adventurer moves past an Anubis statue where an inactive adventurer is lying down, that inactive adventurer becomes active and is moved onto the start space (stairs) in an upright position.[4]

4. The player performs the action shown on the tile upon which the adventurer ended its movement.[2]

5. The player draws a new card from the draw pile and places it in the middle of their hand.[2] (Exception: If the player took a Horus card during their turn, they do not draw a new card [5]).

6. The next player takes their turn in a clockwise direction.[2]

Ending the Game

1. The game ends at the end of the round when a second adventurer has entered the tomb chamber.[6]

2. (Exception: If no player can make a legal move during a game round, the game ends immediately [6]).

3. Players proceed to final scoring.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.2 · General components · Player components · The playing cards

[2] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.3 · The tiles · Important: Handling of cards · Sequence of play · 1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · 2) Performing an action · 3) Drawing a card

[3] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.4 · 1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · Basic Cards: · Horus cards: · Choosing an adventurer and moving · Starting movement from an empty space:

[4] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.4 · New adventurers entering the game

[5] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.5 · 3) Drawing a card

[6] RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook · p.6 · End of the game and final scoring · VP's for Adventurers: · Sarcophagi: · Keys:

Settled. Play on.

🔧 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 233 ms · ask 4246 ms · total 4483 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4483 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 972 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 972 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 0.90253 of 2052 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 13:07 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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · Basic Cards: · Horus cards: · Choosing an adventurer and moving · Starting movement from an empty space:	p.4	0.04866 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	General components · Player components · The playing cards	p.2	0.048387 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	The tiles · Important: Handling of cards · Sequence of play · 1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · 2) Performing an action · 3) Drawing a card	p.3	0.048139 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	New adventurers entering the game	p.4	0.046875 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	1 Adventurer less:	p.8	0.045235 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	End of the game and final scoring · VP's for Adventurers: · Sarcophagi: · Keys:	p.6	0.044563 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	3) Drawing a card	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
#8	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	2) Performing an action · Treasure tile: · Next, the player checks if there is an icon on the now empty space. · Temple tiles: · Horus tile: · Osiris tiles:	p.5	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

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 13 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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · Basic Cards: · Horus cards: · Choosing an adventurer and moving · Starting movement from an empty space:	p.4	#1	0.04866 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	New adventurers entering the game	p.4	#4	0.046875 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	3) Drawing a card	p.5	#7	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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	Summary of Horus cards: · Advance all adventurers: · Advance the last adventurer to the second to last adventurer:	p.8	#10	0.028595 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	End of the game and final scoring · VP's for Adventurers: · Sarcophagi: · Keys:	p.6	#6	0.044563 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	The tiles · Important: Handling of cards · Sequence of play · 1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · 2) Performing an action · 3) Drawing a card	p.3	#3	0.048139 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	1 Adventurer less:	p.8	#5	0.045235 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	General components · Player components · The playing cards	p.2	#2	0.048387 (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 Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	General components · Player components · The playing cards	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	The tiles · Important: Handling of cards · Sequence of play · 1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · 2) Performing an action · 3) Drawing a card	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	1) Playing a card and moving adventurers · Basic Cards: · Horus cards: · Choosing an adventurer and moving · Starting movement from an empty space:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	New adventurers entering the game	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	3) Drawing a card	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Luxor — Rulebook (corpus doc 972)	End of the game and final scoring · VP's for Adventurers: · Sarcophagi: · Keys:	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 233 ms · first delta 1358 ms · total 4483 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 233 ms · ask 4246 ms · gateway work 4483 ms · total 4483 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3178
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 615
tok/sec: 201.5 tok/sec — 615 output tokens in 3.052 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 50s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 1s 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 902), 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.