Ruling — King of New York

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How do I play?

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Asked with: King of New Yorkbg-160499-en-1e

Setup

1. Place the gameboard in the middle of the table.[1]

2. Shuffle all cards (except the two special cards) to form a face-down deck, then place the top three cards face-up on the table.[1]

3. Place the two special cards, Statue of Liberty and Superstar, face-up beside the deck.[1]

4. Place tokens beside the board.[1]

5. Put the six black dice in the middle of the table and keep the two green dice to the side.[1]

6. Each player chooses a Monster, takes its figure and Monster board, and sets dials to 10 Life Points and 0 Victory Points.[1]

7. Form a pool of Energy cubes.[1]

8. Shuffle Building tiles and form stacks of three, placing three stacks in each borough.[1]

Determining Order

1. Each player rolls the six black dice and the two green dice.[2]

2. Whoever rolls the most Attacks starts the game.[2]

Gameplay

1. Players take turns in clockwise order.[2]

2. At the start of a turn, a player may place their Monster in a borough of their choice, except Manhattan, with no more than two Monsters in any borough.[2]

3. On a turn, a player performs the following steps:

1. Roll the Dice: Roll the six black dice up to three times; the second and third rolls are optional and allow rerolling any or all dice.[2] (Note: Green dice are only rolled when a card allows it).[2]

2. Resolve the Dice: Mandatory step where symbols indicate actions; dice of the same type must be resolved before another type.[2]

3. Move: Generally optional, but sometimes mandatory.[2]

4. Buy Cards: Optional step where cards are purchased by spending Energy.[2][3]

4. A turn ends by passing the dice to the player on the left.[4][5]

Winning the Game

1. The game ends at the end of a turn if a Monster has reached 20 Victory Points and survived, or if there is only one Monster still in the game.[6][7][1]

2. The Monster with 20 Victory Points or the last survivor wins and is crowned King of New York.[6][7][1]

3. If all Monsters are eliminated in the same turn, nobody wins.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.1

[2] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.2 · How to Play · On Your Turn: · dice effects · energy · 1. Roll the Dice · 2. Resolve the Dice

[3] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.3

[4] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.3

[5] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.4 · Attack from the Army

[6] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.3

[7] RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook · p.3

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 218 ms · ask 4280 ms · total 4502 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4502 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "How to Play · On Your Turn: · dice effects · energy · 1. Roll the Dice · 2. Resolve the Dice", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Attack from the Army", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 986}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 986 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 986 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 0.88037 of 1630 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 12:49 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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	How to Play · On Your Turn: · dice effects · energy · 1. Roll the Dice · 2. Resolve the Dice	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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	Attack from the Army	p.4	0.046635 (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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	Credits · Summary of a Game Turn · 3. Move	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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	4. Buy Cards · 5. End Your Turn	p.2	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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.1	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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	advanced rules	p.3	0.030366 (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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	3. move · Destruction	p.2	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 18 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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	How to Play · On Your Turn: · dice effects · energy · 1. Roll the Dice · 2. Resolve the Dice	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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	#10	0.02938 (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
#3	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	#13	0.013889 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	advanced rules	p.3	#7	0.030366 (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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	#11	0.014286 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	#3	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.1	#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
#8	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	Attack from the Army	p.4	#2	0.046635 (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 King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	How to Play · On Your Turn: · dice effects · energy · 1. Roll the Dice · 2. Resolve the Dice	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)	Attack from the Army	p.4	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK King of New York — Rulebook (corpus doc 986)		p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 218 ms · first delta 1750 ms · total 4502 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 4280 ms · gateway work 4502 ms · total 4502 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4341
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 532
tok/sec: 198.5 tok/sec — 532 output tokens in 2.680 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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 916), 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.