Ruling — Odin's Ravens (Second Edition)

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How do I play?

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1. Shuffle the land cards and place a line of 16 cards between the players, ensuring no two spaces in a row are the same (if they are, rotate the newest card 180° or replace it with a new card).[1]

2. Place the deck of remaining land cards face down nearby.[1]

3. Both players place their ravens at one end of the land cards, each in front of one route.[1]

4. Each player shuffles their 25 flight cards and 8 Loki cards of their color separately and places them face down as two draw piles.[1]

5. Players draw 5 cards as a starting hand, choosing any combination from either pile.[1]

6. The player who lost the last race goes first.[1]

7. On a turn, players choose how many cards from their hand they want to play, taking as many or as few actions as they like as long as they have the right cards.[1]

8. Use a flight card to move a raven (FLIGHT) by playing a card that shows the same land type as the next path space in front of the raven.[2][1]

9. If there is a row of the same land type, a matching flight card can move the raven over all those spaces to the end of the row.[2]

10. If no matching flight card is available, any two flight cards of the same type can be used as the required card.[2]

11. Use a Loki card to choose one of its two different actions (TRICKERY).[3][1]

12. After playing cards, draw 3 cards from either draw pile to end the turn.[3]

13. If a player has more than 7 cards, they must immediately discard until they have 7 cards left.[3][4]

14. The game ends when a player moves their raven into the final space on their opponent's side.[3][4]

15. That player is the winner, unless the winner went first, in which case the other player has one more turn to reach the finish point; if they succeed, the player with the most cards in hand wins.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.2 · Odin's Ravens

[2] RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.2 · Odin's Ravens

[3] RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.1

[4] RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.1

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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 101 ms · ask 3354 ms · total 3456 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3456 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 2, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "The actions are: FLIGHT using a flight card to move a raven along the flight path. TRICKERY - using a Loki card to take one of the actions on the card. To move their raven, a player must play a flight card that shows the same land type as the next path space in front of their raven. For example, if ", "headingPath": "Odin's Ravens", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.048387, "snippet": "Each Loki card has two different actions as options for the players. When playing a Loki card that player must choose which of those actions they want to use. Once a Loki card is used it is removed from the game, meaning players can never use trickery more than eight times in a game. Players should ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "After thousands of years of taking this trip every day, the ravens have turned it into a race! They will head in opposite directions around the world, and the first one who returns to the starting point will be the winner. They can also ask for help from Loki, god of tricks and mischief, to make the", "headingPath": "Odin's Ravens", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "If a player now has more than 7 cards, they must immediately choose cards to discard without taking actions until they have 7 cards left. As usual, flight cards would be put in the discard pile, while Loki cards would be removed from the game. The game ends when a player moves their raven into the f", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Game Design by Thorsten Gimmler Cover and Card art by Johan Egerkrans Osprey Publishing, part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc PO Box 883, Oxford, OX1 9PL, UK © 2015 Thorsten Gimmler & Osprey Publishing Ltd. All Rights Reserved. www.ospreygames.co.uk E very morning, Odin, the Allfather of the Norse Gods", "headingPath": "Odin's Ravens", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Odin's Ravens", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Odin's Ravens", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1208}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1208 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1208 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 0.90091 of 1433 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:10 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 Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	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 Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	0.047123 (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 Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	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 Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.1	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

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 5 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 Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.1	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	#3	0.047123 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)	Odin's Ravens	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Odin's Ravens (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1208)		p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 101 ms · first delta 1083 ms · total 3456 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 101 ms · ask 3354 ms · gateway work 3456 ms · total 3456 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2117
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 473
tok/sec: 203.3 tok/sec — 473 output tokens in 2.327 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 20s 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 1138), 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.