Ruling — Dorfromantik: Sakura

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Dorfromantik: Sakurabg-424774-en-1e

To play the game, follow these steps:

1. Setup:

* Mix all Landscape tiles facedown, draw 3, and return them to the box without looking at them.[1]

* Create any number of facedown stacks with the remaining Landscape tiles and place them at the edge of your play area.[1]

* Mix all Task tiles facedown and create any number of facedown stacks at the edge of your playing area, separate from the Landscape tiles.[1]

* Mix all Task markers facedown and separate them by color or icons, then place them facedown at the edge of your play area next to the Task tile stacks.[1]

2. The Game Loop:

* Determine a start player.[2]

* Players take turns in clockwise order.[2]

* In the first 3 turns of the game, you must reveal 1 Task tile.[2]

* For each subsequent turn, check the number of Task tiles with Task markers in the play area:

* If there are fewer than 3 Task tiles with Task markers, you must reveal 1 Task tile and place it in the game area with a matching Task marker.[2]

* If there are 3 Task tiles with Task markers, turn over 1 Landscape tile and place it in the play area.[2]

* When revealing a Task tile, you must immediately take 1 matching Task marker, flip it so the number is visible, and place both tiles together in the play area.[2]

* Before placing a tile, discuss its best use with other players, though you make the final decision on placement.[2]

3. Placement Rules:

* All tiles must be placed to maintain a single connected group, meaning each tile must have at least 1 of its 6 edges against an edge of a tile already in the play area.[2]

* Roads and Rivers must always match edges with their type (e.g., you cannot connect a River edge to a non-River edge).[2]

* Landscape types Cherry tree, Rice, Village, and neutral Meadows can be placed however you wish as they are not required to match.[2]

* You may place Task tiles in a territory that already contains 1 or more Task tiles, with or without a Task marker.[3]

* You may not place a Task tile that would cause a territory, Road, or River to consist of more tiles than the current Task marker requires, or close off an area/Road/River with fewer tiles than the Task requires.[3]

* You may place a tile in a territory, Road, or River that contains more tiles than any existing Task marker requires; in this case, remove the Task marker and return it to the box.[3]

* You may remove a Task marker if you close off a territory, Road, or River such that there are fewer tiles than the Task marker requires.[3]

* By placing a tile, you may complete more than one Task marker at the same time.[3]

4. Ending the Game:

* The game ends immediately when you are required to reveal a Landscape tile and none are left.[4]

* If you complete a Task with the last Landscape tile (or cancel one), the game continues revealing and placing new Task tiles until you cannot complete or cancel any more Tasks.[4]

* If you run out of Task tiles, you cannot play any more Task tiles and must continue playing only Landscape tiles until the end of the game.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook · p.4 · Using the Insert · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME

[2] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook · p.5 · COURSE OF THE GAME (1/3) · The fundamental rule:

[3] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook · p.7 · Additional Details: · COURSE OF THE GAME (3/3)

[4] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook · p.8 · END OF THE GAME · Tasks: · Flags: · Longest Road and Longest River:

The book has spoken.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 158 ms · ask 5831 ms · total 5992 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5992 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1045 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1045 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 0.92177 of 2467 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 11:48 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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	COURSE OF THE GAME (1/3) · The fundamental rule:	p.5	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Using the Insert · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME	p.4	0.048387 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Completing Tasks · COURSE OF THE GAME (2/3)	p.6	0.045921 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Hot springs Crossroads 2 4 Drinks 3 Bird lover Bridges The Achievement Cards	p.11	0.045476 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Result	p.11	0.044388 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)		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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Result	p.10	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
#8	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Rule book	p.1	0.029412 (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))	102

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 26 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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	COURSE OF THE GAME (1/3) · The fundamental rule:	p.5	#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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Result	p.10	#7	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
#3	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Flags	p.7	#12	0.028382 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	END OF THE GAME · Tasks: · Flags: · Longest Road and Longest River:	p.8	#14	0.027799 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Using the Insert · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME	p.4	#2	0.048387 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)		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
#7	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Result	p.11	#5	0.044388 (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 Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Additional Details: · COURSE OF THE GAME (3/3)	p.7	#11	0.028531 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Using the Insert · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	COURSE OF THE GAME (1/3) · The fundamental rule:	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	Additional Details: · COURSE OF THE GAME (3/3)	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: Sakura — Rulebook (corpus doc 1045)	END OF THE GAME · Tasks: · Flags: · Longest Road and Longest River:	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 158 ms · first delta 2164 ms · total 5992 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 158 ms · ask 5831 ms · gateway work 5992 ms · total 5992 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3603
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 752
tok/sec: 200.9 tok/sec — 752 output tokens in 3.743 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 22h, checked 3s 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 975), 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.