Ruling — It's a Wonderful Kingdom

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How do I play?

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Asked with: It's a Wonderful Kingdombg-327711-en-1e

The game lasts 4 rounds.[1][2] Each round comprises three phases:[2]

1. Choice Phase: This phase spans 16 successive turns, alternating between an Offering turn and a Selection turn.[2]

* During this phase, players Offer and Select cards.[1]

* In an Offering turn, cards are placed in the Offering areas.[3]

* In a Selection turn, a player selects one of the two Offering areas and adds all the cards from it to their Selection area.[3]

* At the end of the Choice phase, any remaining cards in the Offering areas are discarded.[3]

2. Planning Phase: This phase is played simultaneously.[2]

3. Production Phase: This phase is played simultaneously.[2]

* During this phase, players can decide whether to recycle selected cards to acquire resources immediately, or slate them for construction so they can produce resources each round and/or earn Victory Points.[1]

At the end of the 4th round, players count their Victory Points.[2] The player with more Victory Points wins the game.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.1 · GOAL · CONTENTS

[2] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.4 · Setup

Settled. Play 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 70 ms · ask 2987 ms · total 3059 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3059 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 2, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "The following rules teach you the basics of how the game works; however, you will never play the game this way. Each time you play, you must choose one of the modules and add it to the game. Each module modifies or supplements the rules. Module rules always supersede the basic game rules. The rules ", "headingPath": "CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.048652, "snippet": "SETUP 3 GAME MODE3 GAME MODE The following rules teach you the basics of how the game works; however, you will never play the game this way. Each time you play, you must choose one of the modules and add it to the game. Each module modifies or supplements the rules. Module rules always supersede the", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.046154, "snippet": "The Advisors module offers both players access to Advisors. The victory conditions remain the same, but you can employ the Advisors' unique abilities. Contents: 14 Advisors The Advisors module adds an area to each player's play area: the Advisors' area . This is where your Advisors will go. Each Adv", "headingPath": "Interaction: 2/5 Difficulty: 2/5 · SETUP · A PLAYER'S PLAY AREA · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · END OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.045724, "snippet": "Now you know the 'general rules' of It's a Wonderful Kingdom; however, each time you play, you must add one of these modules to the basic rules. The rules of the modules always take priority over the base game rules. This often includes changes to the setup, as well. The Menace module allows each pl", "headingPath": "Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.045635, "snippet": "Follow the solo rules, as described page 7. You will not use Advisor cards bearing the 2-player logo ; put them back in the box. Draw 2 Advisor cards, choose one and place it in your Advisor's area. Shuffle the other one with the other Advisor cards. Replace the 10 Treasure cards with 10 Advisor car", "headingPath": "SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.045037, "snippet": "■ Shuffle the Development deck (Development + Treasure cards) then draw 8 cards from this deck without looking at them. ■ Add 4 Calamity cards to these 8 cards, then shuffle this deck, and place it face down on the table. This will be the Danger deck . ■ Shuffle the rest of the development cards to ", "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.044002, "snippet": "Similarly, your opponent is welcome to select the empty Offering to avoid taking cards they don’t want. There is no limit to the number of cards that can be in an Offering area. Using the Trap tokens: You each have 2 Trap tokens available each round. Use these tokens to place cards face down in the ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Production phase: Because you are the only player, the Supremacy rule is modified. You can only collect the Supremacy bonus for a Resource if you produced at least 5 of that Resource this round. Collect the Soldier token from your Training area, or if there isn't one there, add a Soldier token to yo", "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GOAL · CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 1290}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1290 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1290 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 0.89234 of 836 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 13:34 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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA	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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	0.048652 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Interaction: 2/5 Difficulty: 2/5 · SETUP · A PLAYER'S PLAY AREA · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · END OF THE GAME	p.6	0.046154 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …	p.5	0.045724 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP	p.6	0.045635 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	0.045037 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	0.044002 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	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

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 23 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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA	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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	#6	0.045037 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP	p.6	#5	0.045635 (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
#4	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …	p.5	#4	0.045724 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	GOAL · CONTENTS	p.1	#16	0.014085 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Interaction: 2/5 Difficulty: 2/5 · SETUP · A PLAYER'S PLAY AREA · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · END OF THE GAME	p.6	#3	0.046154 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	#8	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
#8	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	#2	0.048652 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	GOAL · CONTENTS	p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 70 ms · first delta 1759 ms · total 3059 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 70 ms · ask 2987 ms · gateway work 3059 ms · total 3059 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3861
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 238
tok/sec: 199.0 tok/sec — 238 output tokens in 1.196 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 8s 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 1220), 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.