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How do I play?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clarkbg-171669-en-1e
To play the game, follow these procedures:
Setup
3. Draw the next three cards from the deck and place them Discoveries side up in the Reconnaissance Area.[1]
4. (In introductory games) If any of these 3 cards are special cards (numbered over 37), re-shuffle them with the deck and draw 3 new cards.[1]
5. Each player chooses a character and takes the corresponding individual player-board, journal cover, and 5 dice of their color.[1]
6. Place the individual board, journal cover, and dice in front of the player, ensuring the proper side of the journal cover is facing up.[1]
8. The Start Player picks one of the three available Discoveries cards and places it in their Exploration zone.[1]
9. The Start Player draws the top card from the deck and places it in the now empty spot of the Reconnaissance Area, Discoveries side up.[1]
10. Moving clockwise, each other player does the same until every player has one Discoveries card in their Exploration zone.[1]
11. Every player rolls their 5 dice and places them in the Dice Stock of their individual boards.[1]
A Turn
2. On your turn, you must choose one of two options:
* Option A: Play dice in your Action zone or on the game board to prepare for or finish an Exploration, change the face of your dice, or possibly get new actions.[2]
* Option B: Get dice from the game board, from your and your opponents' individual boards, or both.[2]
3. If choosing to play dice in your Action zone:
* Take at least one die showing this Action from your Stock and play them into your Action zone (individual board + Tribe cards).[3]
* You can only play one kind of Action face on your turn; you cannot play both different types (e.g., Walk and Negotiate) on the same turn.[3]
* You can accomplish different Actions per turn, but the same Action can only be accomplished once per turn, and you may choose the order of these Actions.[3]
* For Exploration Actions, you must play prerequisite dice before playing the Journal die to trigger the effect.[4]
* When an Action is triggered, its effect is applied immediately; once applied, discard the die or dice to the appropriate Bank of the Camp board.[3]
4. If choosing to get dice:
* You may take all or as many of your 5 colored dice as you like from anywhere (your board, Tribe cards, Camp board, or other players' boards).[5]
Scoring and Winning
1. At the end of the game, add up the following:
3. In the event of a tie, the winner is the player with the most dice on their individual board (including Dice Stocks and Action zones) among the tied players.[6]
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Rule found, game 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 144 ms · ask 6087 ms · total 6776 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 543 ms · generation 6233 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)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1086 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1086 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 0.90960 of 2843 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Sep 5, 2026 15:12 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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | A- Action Play dice from your Stock into your Action zone · Important points: · ǻǻ Actions requiring one turn · ǻǻ Actions requiring (usually) more than one turn | p.5 | 0.048916 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ The Exploration Actions · All these Actions require one or several dice to be placed first. Then they are activated, later in another turn, by placing a Journal die, which triggers their effect. · ǻǻ Triggering Exploration Actions | p.7 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Game Turn · Letter of M. Lewis to W. Clark on June 19, 1803 · [Lewis] Orders, August 26th, 1804 | p.4 | 0.04741 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Object · Thomas Jefferson summing up his former secretary's life · Letter of J. Ordway to his parents, April 8th, 1804 · Game Overview · Your dice rolls determine the Actions you can take. | p.4 | 0.044776 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻ ǻ 1 game board (the Camp) of the table. · ǻ ǻ 30 colored special dice · 5 dice in each of four colors + 10 gray dice · ǻ ǻ 55 double-sided playing cards: Tribe/Discoveries · Tribe side | p.2 | 0.044118 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Get dice and place them in your Stock | p.10 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ Finally, add up all your Discovery points. | p.11 | 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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | & Set up · Discoveries side · ǻ ǻ 4 individual boards, in the color of each player · Your individual board is divided into: · Players choose their first Discoveries card 8 | p.3 | 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 19 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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | A- Action Play dice from your Stock into your Action zone · Important points: · ǻǻ Actions requiring one turn · ǻǻ Actions requiring (usually) more than one turn | p.5 | #1 | 0.048916 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ The Exploration Actions · All these Actions require one or several dice to be placed first. Then they are activated, later in another turn, by placing a Journal die, which triggers their effect. · ǻǻ Triggering Exploration Actions | p.7 | #2 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ Finally, add up all your Discovery points. | p.11 | #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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Get dice and place them in your Stock | p.10 | #6 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Taking a Friendly Tribe card · Effect: · If the stock of gray dice is empty... · Notes · Changing the dice · Change of plans · … | p.6 | #9 | 0.030118 (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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | & Set up · Discoveries side · ǻ ǻ 4 individual boards, in the color of each player · Your individual board is divided into: · Players choose their first Discoveries card 8 | p.3 | #8 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Object · Thomas Jefferson summing up his former secretary's life · Letter of J. Ordway to his parents, April 8th, 1804 · Game Overview · Your dice rolls determine the Actions you can take. | p.4 | #4 | 0.044776 (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 Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Game Turn · Letter of M. Lewis to W. Clark on June 19, 1803 · [Lewis] Orders, August 26th, 1804 | p.4 | #3 | 0.04741 (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
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | & Set up · Discoveries side · ǻ ǻ 4 individual boards, in the color of each player · Your individual board is divided into: · Players choose their first Discoveries card 8 | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Game Turn · Letter of M. Lewis to W. Clark on June 19, 1803 · [Lewis] Orders, August 26th, 1804 | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | A- Action Play dice from your Stock into your Action zone · Important points: · ǻǻ Actions requiring one turn · ǻǻ Actions requiring (usually) more than one turn | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ The Exploration Actions · All these Actions require one or several dice to be placed first. Then they are activated, later in another turn, by placing a Journal die, which triggers their effect. · ǻǻ Triggering Exploration Actions | p.7 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | Get dice and place them in your Stock | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark — Rulebook (corpus doc 1086) | ǻǻ Finally, add up all your Discovery points. | p.11 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 144 ms · first delta 1832 ms · total 6776 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 543 ms · retrieval 144 ms · ask 6087 ms · gateway work 6233 ms · total 6776 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3843
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 870
- tok/sec
- 201.1 tok/sec — 870 output tokens in 4.326 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
- answerer host (measured by rulesage)
- reachable (for 24h, checked 8s 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 1016), 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.