Ruling — The Wolves

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Setup

1. Choose a color and gather 2 Alpha Wolves and 2 Pack Wolves of that color.[1][2]

2. Set the Player Board that matches your chosen color in front of you.[1]

3. Place the 1 Faction-specific Terrain Tile that matches your chosen color in the 1st slot at the top of your Player Board; this tile features the letter associated with your Faction and shows the same terrain on both sides.[3]

4. Place the other 5 Terrain Tiles marked with your Faction's letter in the remaining 5 slots, ensuring no terrain type is repeated.[3]

5. Place 4 Lairs on their designated spaces in the bottom left of the Player Board.[1]

6. Place a Den Marker over all the numbers on the top half of the Player Board except the smallest number in each section (12 total).[1]

7. Place 6 Pack Wolves and 2 Alpha Wolves on their designated spaces in the bottom right of the Player Board, placing the 2 Alpha Wolves on the spaces featuring the symbol (3rd & 6th spaces).[1]

8. Randomly choose a first player.[1][2]

9. The first player chooses an empty hex surrounding the Central Chasm on the Start Board and places 1 Alpha Wolf and 1 Pack Wolf together on that hex.[1]

10. Proceed around the table counterclockwise, starting with the player who just chose their first hex; each player chooses a second starting hex that is empty and on the opposite side of the Central Ch namely from their first starting hex.[3]

Turn Sequence and Actions

1. The player who drafted first takes the first turn, and play proceeds clockwise for the remainder of the game.[1]

2. On your turn, take any 2 Actions, regardless of cost.[4]

3. You may take more than 2 Actions on your turn by discarding Bonus Action Tokens.[4]

4. You can take the same Action multiple times.[4]

5. Pay the cost of each Action by flipping Terrain Tiles (or discarding Bonus Terrain Tokens).[4]

6. Actions include:

* Fight for Control of a Region by increasing your wolf pack's presence there.[4]

* Hunt Prey scattered around the Regions by surrounding it with your wolves.[4]

* Increase your pack's strength by improving your Attributes.[4]

7. After taking Actions, check the Moonlight Board to see if Region Scoring has been triggered.[4]

Scoring and Game End

1. The game immediately ends at the end of the turn when a piece is placed on the Full Moon space on the Moonlight Board.[5]

2. To determine your final score, add together all VP Tokens earned in the 3 Region Scoring phases and the highest VP number revealed in each of the 6 tracks on your Player Board.[5]

3. The player with the most VP wins.[5]

4. In the case of a tie, the player with the most Region Scoring Tokens wins.[5]

5. If there is still a tie, the player with the most wolves on the Board wins.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook · p.5 · 8 Choose your wolf pack · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player

[2] RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook · p.19 · Choose Your Wolf Pack · 9 Set up your Player Board · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player

[3] RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook · p.5 · 9 Set up your Player Board

[4] RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook · p.6 · Objective · Take any 2 Actions, regardless of cost. · Attributes · Pack Spread · Wolf Speed · Howl Range

[5] RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook · p.17 · GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · Hunting Prey Scoring · Tie-Breaker

The book has spoken.

🔧 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 274 ms · ask 5057 ms · total 5335 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5335 ms
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base rulebook doc 1018 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 0.90897 of 2230 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 14:44 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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	8 Choose your wolf pack · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.5	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Objective · Take any 2 Actions, regardless of cost. · Attributes · Pack Spread · Wolf Speed · Howl Range	p.6	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	9 Set up your Player Board	p.5	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Choose Your Wolf Pack · 9 Set up your Player Board · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.19	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
#5	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Dominate · Dominate - special rules:	p.13	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · Hunting Prey Scoring · Tie-Breaker	p.17	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)		p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)		p.14	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 24 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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	9 Set up your Player Board	p.5	#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
#2	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Objective · Take any 2 Actions, regardless of cost. · Attributes · Pack Spread · Wolf Speed · Howl Range	p.6	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Dominate · Dominate - special rules:	p.13	#5	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
#4	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)		p.7	#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
#5	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	2 Player - SCORING REGIONS · 2 Player - GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · 2 Player Variant - special rules:	p.20	#10	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · Hunting Prey Scoring · Tie-Breaker	p.17	#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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	8 Choose your wolf pack · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.5	#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
#8	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Choose Your Wolf Pack · 9 Set up your Player Board · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.19	#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))	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 The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	8 Choose your wolf pack · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Choose Your Wolf Pack · 9 Set up your Player Board · 10 Place Wolves using a snake draft · 11 Start Player	p.19	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	9 Set up your Player Board	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	Objective · Take any 2 Actions, regardless of cost. · Attributes · Pack Spread · Wolf Speed · Howl Range	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Wolves — Rulebook (corpus doc 1018)	GAME END AND FINAL SCORING · Hunting Prey Scoring · Tie-Breaker	p.17	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 274 ms · first delta 1928 ms · total 5335 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 274 ms · ask 5057 ms · gateway work 5335 ms · total 5335 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2657
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 673
tok/sec: 201.1 tok/sec — 673 output tokens in 3.347 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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 948), 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.