Ruling — Wild Space

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How do I play?

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Setup

1. Place the 2 starting planets (with an icon) faceup in the center of the table.[1]

2. Separately shuffle the '3' planets, '6' planets, and '9' planets, then deal one of each facedown under the starting planets.[1]

3. Deal one random Captain card faceup in front of each player, and put the remaining Captain cards back in the box.[1]

4. Each player picks a color and takes the 5 spaceship tokens and veteran token of that color.[1]

5. Shuffle all crew cards and place them in a facedown draw pile in the center of the table.[1]

6. Reveal the first 3 cards in a row next to the pile.[1]

7. Leave space nearby for a discard pile.[1]

8. Each player draws 3 crew cards from the draw pile as their starting hand; hands are kept secret from other players.[1]

9. The first player is whoever saw an animal most recently.[1]

Gameplay

Players take turns in clockwise order, starting with the first player.[2] Each turn, the active player chooses one of the following actions:

A. Land on a planet

1. To land on a planet, place one of your unused spaceships on a faceup planet tile in the middle of the table, on a sector of your choice.[2]

2. You must have enough crew cards in front of you to reach it; the minimum number required is shown in the top corner of both sectors on the tile.[2]

3. Crew cards in your hand do not count towards this requirement, but your Captain always counts as a member of your crew.[2]

4. When landing, you must choose one of the planet's two sectors (left or right).[2]

5. Take the landing action printed on that sector.[2]

B. Explore a planet

1. You must have already landed on a planet to explore it.[3]

2. Choose one of your spaceships in the landing zone of a sector and move it to the exploration zone of that sector.[3]

3. Take an exploration action, which allows you to either draw 3 crew cards or play 1 crew card.[3]

4. Once a spaceship has explored, it can no longer be used for the rest of the game.[3]

Playing Crew Cards

* When you play a card from your hand, place it faceup in front of you next to your Captain.[4]

* If the card has an ability circle, you may immediately use this ability, provided you meet any required condition circles.[4]

* Using abilities is optional.[4]

* If an ability allows you to play another crew card, you must fulfill that card's condition, and you may use its ability immediately, allowing for "chaining" cards in a single turn.[4]

* If you add a Veteran crew member (cards with a medal icon), place your Veteran token on the first space of your Captain's Veteran track and take the action printed there; each subsequent Veteran moves the token one space to the right.[4]

* If you discard a Veteran from your crew, do not move your Veteran token backwards.[4]

Other Turn Actions and Rules

* You may discard a crew card from your hand at any point during your turn to refresh the row (discarding all 3 cards in the row and revealing 3 new ones).[3]

* When drawing a new crew card, you may take a card from the faceup row or from the top of the draw pile.[3]

* If the draw pile is empty, shuffle the discard pile into a new draw pile.[3]

* After finishing landing or exploring, check for new planets: if you have equal or more crew cards than the number printed on a facedown planet tile, flip that tile faceup.[5]

* Once new planets are discovered, your turn is over and the next player begins.[5]

Ending the Game

1. The game ends when all players have landed and explored with each of their 5 spaceships (a total of 10 turns per player).[2]

2. Alternatively, the game ends when every player has all 5 of their spaceships in the exploration zone of a planet.[5]

3. The winner is whoever has earned the most Credits at the end.[2]

4. In the event of a tie, the tied player with the fewest cards in front of them wins; if still tied, the players share the victory.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook · p.4 · setup

[2] RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook · p.5 · GAMEplay · land on a planet · Choosing a Planet · Choosing a Sector

[3] RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook · p.7 · explore a planet · Exploration Actions · drawing crew cards · Refreshing the Row

[4] RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook · p.8 · playing crew cards · playing Veterans

[5] RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook · p.9 · Discovering Planets · End of game · Final scoring

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 1227 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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answer fence: passed — letter density 0.90863 of 3152 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 12:56 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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	playing crew cards · playing Veterans	p.8	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	explore a planet · Exploration Actions · drawing crew cards · Refreshing the Row	p.7	0.047131 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Abilities · Credit count · conditions · Missions examples	p.12	0.046898 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Choosing a Sector · Important! · Sector Conditions · Landing Actions	p.6	0.045228 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Solo Mode · Setup changes · Gameplay · Smuggler's turn	p.10	0.044563 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	GAMEplay · land on a planet · Choosing a Planet · Choosing a Sector	p.5	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
#7	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	setup	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
#8	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Components:	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

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 12 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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	playing crew cards · playing Veterans	p.8	#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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	setup	p.4	#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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	GAMEplay · land on a planet · Choosing a Planet · Choosing a Sector	p.5	#6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Components:	p.2	#10	0.02971 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Discovering Planets · End of game · Final scoring	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
#6	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Solo Mode · Setup changes · Gameplay · Smuggler's turn	p.10	#5	0.044563 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	explore a planet · Exploration Actions · drawing crew cards · Refreshing the Row	p.7	#2	0.047131 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Abilities · Credit count · conditions · Missions examples	p.12	#3	0.046898 (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 Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	setup	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	GAMEplay · land on a planet · Choosing a Planet · Choosing a Sector	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	explore a planet · Exploration Actions · drawing crew cards · Refreshing the Row	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	playing crew cards · playing Veterans	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Wild Space — Rulebook (corpus doc 1227)	Discovering Planets · End of game · Final scoring	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 133 ms · first delta 1094 ms · total 5969 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 133 ms · ask 5834 ms · gateway work 5969 ms · total 5969 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3081
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 975
tok/sec: 202.1 tok/sec — 975 output tokens in 4.824 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 8s 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 1157), 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.