Ruling — Boss Fighters QR

← Boss Fighters QR

You asked

How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Boss Fighters QRbg-454672-en-1e

To play, follow these setup and gameplay steps:

Setup

1. Start the app and place your smartphone or tablet in the center of your play area.[1]

2. Grant the app access to your device's front camera.[1]

3. Enter a group name and tap "Let's go!".[1]

4. Scan your Hero and Class cards by holding them about 15 cm from the camera with the QR code facing the device.[1]

5. Enter your name and choose a seat that matches your real-life position at the table.[1]

6. Once everyone has selected seats, tap the green arrow to continue.[1]

7. Choose a Boss (e.g., tap Mr. Puppet for a training fight) and select a difficulty level.[1][2]

8. Each player chooses 1 Hero deck and 1 Class deck, then takes all cards from those decks and places them in front of them.[3][4]

9. Place your Hero card and Class card side by side on the left.[3][4]

10. Shuffle the 12 Action cards from your selected decks together and place them as a face-down draw pile below your Class card.[3][4]

11. Leave space to the left of the draw pile for a face-up discard pile and to the right for a card play area.[3][4]

12. Place an Overview card in front of you with the round summary side facing up.[3][4]

13. Place Poison tokens within easy reach in the center of the play area.[3][4]

14. Set your Health counter to your starting health by adding the health points listed on your Hero and Class cards.[3][4]

Gameplay Sequence

1. Planning phase: The Boss plans their Boss attacks.[3]

2. Shield phase: The Boss receives shields.[3]

3. Action phase: Perform 3 Actions in turn order.[3]

* When playing an Attack, deal damage to the Boss equal to the Attack's strength.[5]

* When playing a Support, it deals damage to the Boss equal to the Support's strength if an Attack of the same damage type has already been played by any player.[5]

* If a Hero receives a Curse, draw one card from the Curse pile and place it face-down next to that Hero's card; at the start of the next Action phase, flip and resolve these cards.[6]

4. Attack phase: The Boss performs their Boss attacks.[3]

5. Status phase: Deal with Status effects.[3]

6. Discard phase: Place all played cards from your play area into your discard pile.[7] Discard hand cards if necessary to match your hand card limit (the sum of the two hand card values on your Hero and Class card).[7] Press the check mark when finished.[7]

7. Draw phase: Draw new cards up to your hand card limit.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.5 · Step 7 · Step 8 · Step 9 · Boss Information Screen

[2] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.10 · Difficulty Level

[3] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.4

[4] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.4 · Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 5 · Step 6 · Step 4

[5] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.6 · Card Effects

[6] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.12 · Did you know … ? · Curses

[7] RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook · p.7 · Phase 6: Discard phase

Rule found, game on.

🔧 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 97 ms · ask 5218 ms · total 5978 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 660 ms · generation 5318 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Step 7 · Step 8 · Step 9 · Boss Information Screen", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Difficulty Level", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 5 · Step 6 · Step 4", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Card Effects", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Did you know … ? · Curses", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Phase 6: Discard phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 1226}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1226 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1226 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 0.87201 of 2008 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 13:01 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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 5 · Step 6 · Step 4	p.4	0.047883 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 1 · Starting the Campaign · Game Setup	p.3	0.047493 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)		p.4	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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Round 1 · Hand Cards · Phase 1: Planning phase · Phase 2: Shield phase · Phase 3: Action phase	p.6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Card Explanations · Anti-Boss-3000 · Déjà-Vu · Meteor Shower · Phoenix Owl · Smoke Bomb · …	p.11	0.046244 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 7 · Step 8 · Step 9 · Boss Information Screen	p.5	0.046239 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Difficulty Level	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
#8	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Phase 7: Draw phase · Phase 1: Planning phase · Phase 2: Shield phase · Phase 5: Status phase · Now try to defeat the Boss. Read on once you've done that.	p.8	0.042961 (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 24 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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Card Explanations · Anti-Boss-3000 · Déjà-Vu · Meteor Shower · Phoenix Owl · Smoke Bomb · …	p.11	#5	0.046244 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 7 · Step 8 · Step 9 · Boss Information Screen	p.5	#6	0.046239 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Phase 6: Discard phase	p.7	#10	0.028577 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Difficulty Level	p.10	#7	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
#5	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Did you know … ? · Curses	p.12	#13	0.027397 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Card Effects	p.6	#14	0.026786 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)		p.4	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 5 · Step 6 · Step 4	p.4	#1	0.047883 (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 Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 7 · Step 8 · Step 9 · Boss Information Screen	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Difficulty Level	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Step 2 · Step 3 · Step 5 · Step 6 · Step 4	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Card Effects	p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Did you know … ? · Curses	p.12	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Boss Fighters QR — Rulebook (corpus doc 1226)	Phase 6: Discard phase	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 97 ms · first delta 1940 ms · total 5978 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 660 ms · retrieval 97 ms · ask 5218 ms · gateway work 5318 ms · total 5978 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3098
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 654
tok/sec: 197.3 tok/sec — 654 output tokens in 3.315 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 7s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 7s 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 1156), 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.