Ruling — Décorum

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How do I play?

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To play the game, follow these steps:

Setup

1. Pick a scenario to play.[1]

2. Carefully take all cards out of the scenario envelope, keeping them face-down, and reveal the setup card to both players.[1]

3. Place the house board and object board so both players can reach them.[2][3]

4. Set the round track above the house with the round marker on the 1 space.[2][3]

5. Place 3 heart tokens face up to the left of the round track and return remaining heart tokens to the box (for 2-player games).[2][3]

6. Put all object tokens on the object board in the spots that match their type and style.[2]

7. Place the wall color tokens near the object board.[2][3]

8. Place wall color tokens in the wall color slots for each of the 4 rooms on the house board, matching the colors indicated on the setup card.[1]

9. Place object tokens from the object board into object slots in each of the 4 rooms on the house board, matching the specific objects in each room as indicated on the setup card.[1]

10. Give each player a face-down conditions card; players may look at their own card but must keep it secret from the other player.[1]

11. (For 3- or 4-player games) Flip the round track to the 4-player side, place 5 heart tokens to the left of the track, and give each player all cards of their color.[4]

Playing a Round

The game is played over several rounds, beginning with Player one.[5] Each round follows these steps:

1. Player one performs an action.[5]

2. Player one checks for fulfillment.[5]

3. Player two makes a comment.[5]

4. If both players are fulfilled, the game ends.[5]

5. Player two performs an action.[5]

6. Player two checks for fulfillment.[5]

7. Player one makes a comment.[5]

8. If both players are fulfilled, the game ends.[5]

9. Move the round marker 1 space on the round track.[5]

Performing an Action

During a turn, a player performs one of the following actions:[6][7]

1. Add one object token (lamp, curio, or wall hanging) from the object board to an empty object slot.[6][7]

2. Remove one object token (lamp, curio, or wall hanging) from the house board and place it on the object board.[6][7]

Heart-to-Heart

A Heart-to-Heart may be triggered during a round:[5]

1. If no Heart-to-Heart has occurred and the round marker is on space 15, you must have a Heart-to-Heart.[5]

2. If one or more Heart-to-Hearts have occurred and the round marker is on space 5 or 10, you must have a Heart-to-Heart.[5]

3. During a Heart-to-Heart, each player states how they are feeling about the house, and each player chooses one of their small conditions cards to share with any other player.[8]

4. Flip a heart token face-down and place it to the right of the house board, then move the round marker back to the 1 space.[8]

Ending the Game

The game ends in one of two ways:[5]

1. If both players have met all their conditions and are each "fulfilled".[5][8]

2. After 30 rounds.[5]

(Note: If the round marker is on space 15 and no heart tokens remain, it is the end of the game instead of a Heart-to-Heart).[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.5 · scenario setup · Each scenario includes the following: · TO SET UP A SCENARIO

[2] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.4

[3] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.4 · Setup the game by following these steps:

[4] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.14 · 3- and 4-player rules · Follow the 2 -player setup with the following changes:

[5] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.8 · game overview · P L A Y I N G A R O U N D

[6] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.9 · player turns · P E R F O R M A N A C T I O N · 1. Add an Object · 2. Remove an Object

[7] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.9

[8] RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook · p.1 · House Meeting (3/4-Players) · E N D O F G A M E · S C O R I N G

The book has spoken.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 06:25 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
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#2	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	game overview · P L A Y I N G A R O U N D	p.8	0.046875 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	before you start · A B O U T T H E H O U S E · A B O U T T H E O B J E C T S	p.3	0.045805 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	Setup the game by following these steps:	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	player turns · P E R F O R M A N A C T I O N · 1. Add an Object · 2. Remove an Object	p.9	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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)		p.4	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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	MOVE THE ROUND MARKER · T H E H E A R T- T O - H E A R T · To have a Heart-to-Heart: · WHAT IF WE FEEL STUCK?	p.12	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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	scenario setup · Each scenario includes the following: · TO SET UP A SCENARIO	p.5	0.030018 (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 25 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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	player turns · P E R F O R M A N A C T I O N · 1. Add an Object · 2. Remove an Object	p.9	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	game overview · P L A Y I N G A R O U N D	p.8	#2	0.046875 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	House Meeting (3/4-Players) · E N D O F G A M E · S C O R I N G	p.1	#12	0.02885 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)		p.4	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	scenario setup · Each scenario includes the following: · TO SET UP A SCENARIO	p.5	#8	0.030018 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	3- and 4-player rules · Follow the 2 -player setup with the following changes:	p.14	#1	0.04866 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	Setup the game by following these steps:	p.4	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)		p.9	#9	0.029851 (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 Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	scenario setup · Each scenario includes the following: · TO SET UP A SCENARIO	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	Setup the game by following these steps:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	3- and 4-player rules · Follow the 2 -player setup with the following changes:	p.14	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	game overview · P L A Y I N G A R O U N D	p.8	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	player turns · P E R F O R M A N A C T I O N · 1. Add an Object · 2. Remove an Object	p.9	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)		p.9	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Décorum — Rulebook (corpus doc 1147)	House Meeting (3/4-Players) · E N D O F G A M E · S C O R I N G	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 185 ms · first delta 1930 ms · total 6149 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 185 ms · ask 5962 ms · gateway work 6149 ms · total 6149 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3084
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 841
tok/sec: 202.0 tok/sec — 841 output tokens in 4.164 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 6s 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 1077), 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.