Ruling — Oriflamme

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Oriflamme is played over 6 rounds.[1]

Setup

1. Each player takes a complete family of 10 cards of the same color and heraldry.[2]

2. Shuffle your 10 cards, remove 3 random cards and set them aside face down.[2]

3. Keep the remaining 7 cards in your hand, without showing them to other players.[2]

4. Each player takes 1 Influence point.[2]

5. Place all remaining Influence points on the table to form the supply.[2]

6. The oldest player starts the game and takes the First Player tile.[2]

7. Place the Resolution Direction tile in the middle of the table to indicate the order in which to resolve cards in the Influence Queue.[2]

The Round of the Game

Each round consists of two phases:

1. Placement Phase

1. Starting with the first player and moving clockwise, each player secretly picks a card from their hand and places it face down in the Influence Queue.[1]

2. If there are no cards in the Queue, the player places their card in the center of the table.[1]

3. A player may place their card at the beginning of the Queue, at the end of the Queue, or on another card of their own Family that has already been played in the Queue.[1]

4. From the 2nd round on, a player may place a card ON TOP of another of his own cards, revealed or not, creating a "stack of cards".[3]

5. The Placement Phase ends when all players have placed ONE card from their hand in the Queue.[1]

2. Resolution Phase

1. The phase is resolved in the direction indicated by the Resolution Direction tile, from the first card in the Queue to the last.[1][3]

2. The owner of the card resolves it based on whether it is face down or revealed:

* If the card is face down, the player has two options: leave the card face down and place 1 Influence point from the supply on it, or reveal the card and immediately apply its ability.[1]

* If the card is revealed, the player must immediately apply its ability.[1]

* If a card was revealed during a previous round, the player has no choice but to apply its ability.[1]

3. If a card is eliminated, it is immediately removed from the Queue, and if it was between two cards, the remaining cards are moved closer together to fill the gap.[4]

4. The player who has the First Player tile passes it to the player to their left.[1]

5. A new round begins.[1]

Ending the Game

1. After 6 rounds, players will have 1 card left in their hand, which they do not play.[3]

2. Any Influence points still on the cards in the Influence Queue do not count toward the final score.[3]

3. The player who accumulated the most Influence points wins.[3]

4. In the event of a tie, the tied player with the most cards still in the Influence Queue wins.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook · p.2 · ROUND OF THE GAME · NOTE : · PLACEMENT PHASE EXAMPLE: · 2/ RESOLUTION PHASE · NEW ROUND

[2] RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook · p.1 · GOAL OF THE GAME · SETUP · CONTENTS

[3] RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook · p.3 · STACKS OF CARDS · RESOLUTION PHASE EXAMPLE: · END OF GAME

[4] RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook · p.2 · ELIMINATE A CARD

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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 188 ms · ask 4279 ms · total 4470 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4470 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ROUND OF THE GAME · NOTE : · PLACEMENT PHASE EXAMPLE: · 2/ RESOLUTION PHASE · NEW ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 1072}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GOAL OF THE GAME · SETUP · CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1072}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STACKS OF CARDS · RESOLUTION PHASE EXAMPLE: · END OF GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 1072}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ELIMINATE A CARD", "sharpsignalDocId": 1072}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1072 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1072 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 0.90566 of 2173 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 08:57 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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ROUND OF THE GAME · NOTE : · PLACEMENT PHASE EXAMPLE: · 2/ RESOLUTION PHASE · NEW ROUND	p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	GOAL OF THE GAME · SETUP · CONTENTS	p.1	0.048131 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	STACKS OF CARDS · RESOLUTION PHASE EXAMPLE: · END OF GAME	p.3	0.047875 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ROYAL DECREE: Move a card anywhere in the Queue, except on another card. Discard Royal Decree. · If Ambush is eliminated by an opponent's card, discard the opponent's card and gain 4 . · CONSPIRACY: Gain double the accumulated on Conspiracy. Discard Conspiracy.	p.4	0.03125 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ELIMINATE A CARD	p.2	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
#6	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	CHARACTER CARDS · ARCHER: Eliminate the first or last card from the Queue. · SOLDIER: Eliminate an adjacent card. · SPY: Steal 1 from a player with an adjacent card. · HEIR: If there is no other card revealed with the same name, gain 2 . · SHAPESHIFTER: Copy the ability of an adjacent revealed character. · …	p.4	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 6 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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ROUND OF THE GAME · NOTE : · PLACEMENT PHASE EXAMPLE: · 2/ RESOLUTION PHASE · NEW ROUND	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
#2	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	STACKS OF CARDS · RESOLUTION PHASE EXAMPLE: · END OF GAME	p.3	#3	0.047875 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	CHARACTER CARDS · ARCHER: Eliminate the first or last card from the Queue. · SOLDIER: Eliminate an adjacent card. · SPY: Steal 1 from a player with an adjacent card. · HEIR: If there is no other card revealed with the same name, gain 2 . · SHAPESHIFTER: Copy the ability of an adjacent revealed character. · …	p.4	#6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ROYAL DECREE: Move a card anywhere in the Queue, except on another card. Discard Royal Decree. · If Ambush is eliminated by an opponent's card, discard the opponent's card and gain 4 . · CONSPIRACY: Gain double the accumulated on Conspiracy. Discard Conspiracy.	p.4	#4	0.03125 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ELIMINATE A CARD	p.2	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	GOAL OF THE GAME · SETUP · CONTENTS	p.1	#2	0.048131 (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 Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ROUND OF THE GAME · NOTE : · PLACEMENT PHASE EXAMPLE: · 2/ RESOLUTION PHASE · NEW ROUND	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	GOAL OF THE GAME · SETUP · CONTENTS	p.1	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	STACKS OF CARDS · RESOLUTION PHASE EXAMPLE: · END OF GAME	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Oriflamme — Rulebook (corpus doc 1072)	ELIMINATE A CARD	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 188 ms · first delta 1060 ms · total 4470 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 188 ms · ask 4279 ms · gateway work 4470 ms · total 4470 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3096
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 673
tok/sec: 200.6 tok/sec — 673 output tokens in 3.355 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 34s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 5s 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 1002), 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.