Ruling — Fairy Tale

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How do I play?

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To play the game, follow these procedures:

Setup

1. For the Basic Rules, remove the 30 cards with the Expert Rules icon ( ) from the 110-card set.[1]

2. Shuffle the remaining 80 cards and place the deck in the middle of the table where every player can reach it.[1]

The Game Order

The game proceeds through the following stages:

1. Stage 1: 1st draft [1]

2. Stage 2: Play cards in hand [1]

3. Stage 3: 2.nd draft [1]

4. Stage 4: Play cards in hand [1]

5. Stage 5: 3rd draft [1]

6. Stage 6: Play cards in hand [1]

7. Stage 7: 4th draft [1]

8. Stage 8: Play cards in hand [1]

9. Stage 9: Calculate points [1]

Drafting Steps

1. The dealer deals five cards to each player face down from the draw pile.[1]

2. When the dealer gives the signal, each player picks up their cards and chooses one.[1]

3. Each player places the chosen card face down in front of them.[1]

4. Each player passes the remaining cards in their hand to the player next to them.[1]

5. For Stages 1 and 5, pass to your left; for Stages 3 and 7, pass to your right.[1]

6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 until no one has any more cards in hand.[1]

Playing Cards in Hand

1. Choose one card from your hand and place it on the table face down.[2]

2. Once all players have placed their chosen cards face down, everyone turns their chosen card face up.[2]

3. Look at the face up cards and apply any effects they might have.[2]

4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 three times.[2]

5. After using the cards in your hand, place the two unused cards face down in the discard pile.[2]

Scoring and Ending the Game

1. After Stage 8, calculate points.[1][3]

2. Each player adds up the points from their face up cards.[3]

3. For cards with variable values, the value equals the number of designated cards in front of you.[3]

4. For cards with a Star icon, check if the conditions are met; if they are, you score full points, otherwise the card is worth 0 points.[4]

5. The player with the highest score is the winner.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook · p.2 · BEFORE YOU BEGIN · The Goal of the Game: · Getting Ready · Order of Play · Drafting

[2] RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook · p.3 · Playing your Cards · Applying Effects

[3] RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook · p.4 · Applying Effects · Example 1: · Scoring · Example 2:

[4] RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook · p.6 · EXPERT RULES · Hunt · Example 4: · Draw · Conditional Points

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 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 92 ms · ask 4129 ms · total 4887 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 664 ms · generation 4223 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BEFORE YOU BEGIN · The Goal of the Game: · Getting Ready · Order of Play · Drafting", "sharpsignalDocId": 1203}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing your Cards · Applying Effects", "sharpsignalDocId": 1203}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Applying Effects · Example 1: · Scoring · Example 2:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1203}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EXPERT RULES · Hunt · Example 4: · Draw · Conditional Points", "sharpsignalDocId": 1203}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1203 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1203 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 0.85313 of 1600 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 15:44 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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	BEFORE YOU BEGIN · The Goal of the Game: · Getting Ready · Order of Play · Drafting	p.2	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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	The Egg of Chaos · Example 6: · RULES VARIANTS Team Play Rules · Richard Garfield's Team Play Rules	p.8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Playing your Cards · Applying Effects	p.3	0.047883 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Conditional Points · Examples 5: · The Trickster · Example 6:	p.7	0.046176 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Applying Effects · Example 1: · Scoring · Example 2:	p.4	0.046154 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	1) CARD NAME · 2) POINTS · 3) CARD TYPES · 4) NUMBER OF CARDS · 5) EFFECT, POWER	p.1	0.045956 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	EXPERT RULES · Hunt · Example 4: · Draw · Conditional Points	p.6	0.045002 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Example 3: · FACTIONS · CARD TYPES	p.5	0.044337 (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 8 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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	BEFORE YOU BEGIN · The Goal of the Game: · Getting Ready · Order of Play · Drafting	p.2	#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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Conditional Points · Examples 5: · The Trickster · Example 6:	p.7	#4	0.046176 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	EXPERT RULES · Hunt · Example 4: · Draw · Conditional Points	p.6	#7	0.045002 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Example 3: · FACTIONS · CARD TYPES	p.5	#8	0.044337 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	1) CARD NAME · 2) POINTS · 3) CARD TYPES · 4) NUMBER OF CARDS · 5) EFFECT, POWER	p.1	#6	0.045956 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Applying Effects · Example 1: · Scoring · Example 2:	p.4	#5	0.046154 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	The Egg of Chaos · Example 6: · RULES VARIANTS Team Play Rules · Richard Garfield's Team Play Rules	p.8	#2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Playing your Cards · Applying Effects	p.3	#3	0.047883 (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 Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	BEFORE YOU BEGIN · The Goal of the Game: · Getting Ready · Order of Play · Drafting	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Playing your Cards · Applying Effects	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	Applying Effects · Example 1: · Scoring · Example 2:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Fairy Tale — Rulebook (corpus doc 1203)	EXPERT RULES · Hunt · Example 4: · Draw · Conditional Points	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 92 ms · first delta 1285 ms · total 4887 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 664 ms · retrieval 92 ms · ask 4129 ms · gateway work 4223 ms · total 4887 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2737
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 584
tok/sec: 202.0 tok/sec — 584 output tokens in 2.891 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 24h, checked 9s 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 1133), 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.