Ruling — The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow

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How do I play?

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Setup

1. The players choose a moderator.[1]

2. The moderator takes the appropriate number of cards, shuffles them, and deals one character card (face-down) to each player.[1]

3. Each player secretly looks at their card and places it face-down in front of themselves.[1]

A Turn

1. The moderator puts the village to sleep by saying, “Night falls, the village is asleep, and everyone closes their eyes”.[1]

2. All character players close their eyes.[1]

3. Depending on the character cards in play, the moderator calls upon the characters.[1]

4. When calling to a character during the night, the moderator should not direct their voice towards the specific character.[2][3][4]

5. If the Little Girl is in play, players must not lower their heads at night or put their hands in front of their eyes.[5][6][7]

6. When the Seer spies, they should pretend to turn over all of the players' cards.[5][6][7]

7. When identifying the lovers, the moderator should walk around the entire table.[5][6][7]

Winning the Game

1. The Villagers win if all Werewolves are eliminated and at least one Villager is alive.[2][3]

2. The Werewolves win if the last Villager dies and at least one Werewolf is alive.[2][3]

3. Even dead players win the game if their team wins.[2][3]

4. If the lovers are a Villager/Werewolf pair, they can only win if they survive and every other player is eliminated.[2][3]

[1] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.10

[2] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.19

[3] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.18

[4] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.19 · ADVICE TO THE MODERATOR · Important points of procedure:

[5] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.20 · Important points of procedure:

[6] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.20

[7] RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook · p.21

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 218 ms · ask 3984 ms · total 4205 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4205 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1250 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1250 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 0.86983 of 1160 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:16 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.10	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
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#3	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	ADVICE TO THE MODERATOR · Important points of procedure:	p.19	0.046239 (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 Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.19	0.045055 (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
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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 44 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 Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.10	#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
#2	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.19	#4	0.045055 (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 Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.18	#5	0.045009 (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 The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS	p.21	#17	0.025654 (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 The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	Important points of procedure:	p.20	#2	0.046343 (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 The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.20	#11	0.028629 (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
#7	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.21	#10	0.029031 (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
#8	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	ADVICE TO THE MODERATOR · Important points of procedure:	p.19	#3	0.046239 (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 The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.19	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.18	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	ADVICE TO THE MODERATOR · Important points of procedure:	p.19	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)	Important points of procedure:	p.20	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.20	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow — Rulebook (corpus doc 1250)		p.21	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 218 ms · first delta 2295 ms · total 4205 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 218 ms · ask 3984 ms · gateway work 4205 ms · total 4205 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3040
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 375
tok/sec: 201.3 tok/sec — 375 output tokens in 1.863 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 4s 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 1180), 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.