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Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Manilabg-15817-en-1e
Answer in hand — your move.
🔧 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 91 ms · ask 4343 ms · total 30129 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 25693 ms · generation 4436 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 2, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "2 shares 3 accomplices The player who bids highest, becomes the harbor master. Each player takes 30 PESOS. Place the remaining coins as a harbor cash box next to the game board. Each player takes three accomplices in his color. When playing with just three, each player takes four accomplices. Die ei", "headingPath": "Each player takes - 30 PESOS · Preparation: · Playing the game: · 1. The office of harbor master is auctioned and performed", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "1 game board rule booklet The game is played over several rounds (called voyages). With each voyage, 3 punts are loaded with wares and set sail for MANILA. The punts move based on die rolls, with one die for each type of ware. The chances to reach the destination port differ by ware, but profits are", "headingPath": "Game overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.045928, "snippet": "Beginning with the harbor master, and continuing in clockwise order, each player takes turns placing one of his accomplices on any vacant accomplice space and pays the amount shown on that space to the harbor cash box (exception: insurance, see below). At any time, a player may choose to refrain fro", "headingPath": "Place accomplices:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "To board the punt, the player moves his pirate to a vacant space on the punt. If there is no vacant space in the punt, it cannot be boarded (see fig.9). The pirate captain (forward space in the pirate boat) may board first. After he boards (or refrains from boarding), the second pirate my board. The", "headingPath": "a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9)", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "For the first voyage, the oldest player starts the auction with a bid of at least 1 PESO (or passes). For subsequent voyages, the player who was harbor master for the previous voyage, starts the bidding. If the starting player passes, his left neighbor begins, and so forth around the table, in clock", "headingPath": "Auction the office of harbor master:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "4 WHERE TO PLACE ACCOMPLICES? Player can deploy their accomplices on the following places: Wares (on board the punts): For ginseng, silk, and nutmeg, there are three accomplice spaces, and for jade there are four accomplice spaces. When a player wants to place an accomplice on one of the 3 loaded wa", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "If the second pirate remains solely in the pirate boat, he becomes the new pirate captain. Plunder: Only after the third movement round! The pirates share the profits of the wares plundered. The pirate captain decides to send the plundered punts to the harbor or to the shipyard. Before the 3. moveme", "headingPath": "a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9) · b) Plunder (see fig. 10)", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.029643, "snippet": "To loan shares ('credit') = 12 Pesos from the harbor cash box. Pay back = 15 Pesos Not repaid credit = minus 15 Pesos at game end. A player who has no cash can place an accomplice on the barges for no costs ('blind passenger'). Wares, which are reaching the port, rise in value up by one on the black", "headingPath": "Profits: · Take credit", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Each player takes - 30 PESOS · Preparation: · Playing the game: · 1. The office of harbor master is auctioned and performed", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Auction the office of harbor master:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "a) buy a share · b) Load goods · c) Place punts in water · 2. Place accomplices and move punts", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Place accomplices:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9)", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Profits: · Take credit", "sharpsignalDocId": 1021}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1021 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1021 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 0.90879 of 1842 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Sep 7, 2026 02:57 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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Each player takes - 30 PESOS · Preparation: · Playing the game: · 1. The office of harbor master is auctioned and performed | p.2 | 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Game overview | p.1 | 0.047123 (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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Place accomplices: | p.3 | 0.045928 (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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9) | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Auction the office of harbor master: | 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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | p.4 | 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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9) · b) Plunder (see fig. 10) | p.6 | 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)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Profits: · Take credit | p.8 | 0.029643 (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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Each player takes - 30 PESOS · Preparation: · Playing the game: · 1. The office of harbor master is auctioned and performed | p.2 | #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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Place accomplices: | p.3 | #3 | 0.045928 (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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9) | p.5 | #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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Auction the office of harbor master: | p.2 | #5 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) buy a share · b) Load goods · c) Place punts in water · 2. Place accomplices and move punts | p.3 | #9 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Profits: · Take credit | p.8 | #8 | 0.029643 (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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | p.4 | #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 Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Game overview | p.1 | #2 | 0.047123 (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
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Each player takes - 30 PESOS · Preparation: · Playing the game: · 1. The office of harbor master is auctioned and performed | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Game overview | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Auction the office of harbor master: | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) buy a share · b) Load goods · c) Place punts in water · 2. Place accomplices and move punts | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Place accomplices: | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | a) boarded by pirates (see fig. 9) | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [7] | RULEBOOK Manila — Rulebook (corpus doc 1021) | Profits: · Take credit | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 91 ms · first delta 1752 ms · total 30129 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 25693 ms · retrieval 91 ms · ask 4343 ms · gateway work 4436 ms · total 30129 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3395
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 517
- tok/sec
- 200.7 tok/sec — 517 output tokens in 2.576 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s ago)
- answerer host (measured by rulesage)
- reachable (for 24h, checked 9s 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 951), 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.