Ruling — The Hunger

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How do I play?

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Asked with: The Hungerbg-339906-en-1e

To play The Hunger, follow these steps:

Turn Order

1. For the first turn, determine order by Vampires' Speeds: add up the Speeds on your cards; the Vampire with the lowest Speed plays first and the fastest plays last.[1][2] In the event of a tie, the oldest player plays first.[1] Stack Vampire tokens on the Castle with the first player on top and the last on the bottom.[3][1]

2. In later turns, the Vampire on their active side furthest from the Castle plays first.[3]

3. If Vampires are in different regions, the priority is: Forest, then Plains, then Mountains, and finally Cemetery.[3]

4. If Vampires are in the same region, priority is determined by their path: Road, then Railroad, then Boat.[4]

5. If Vampires are in the same region and on the same path, those closest to the Labyrinth play first.[4]

6. If a Vampire token is on top of another, that Vampire plays first.[4]

On Your Turn

1. Play all cards in your hand to your playing area.[3]

2. Activate your discard and draw effects.[3][4] You must always activate these before doing anything else, and you must complete all effects of one card before activating the next.[3] You can activate them in any order.[3] You may discard a card before resolving it to avoid its effect.[3][5]

3. Calculate and spend your Speed.[3][4] Add the Speed of all cards in your playing area (including Permanent cards) to determine your total Speed for the turn.[3] Use this Speed to Move and/or Hunt.[3][4] You do not have to spend all your Speed, but you cannot move after you have triggered a board effect or started to hunt.[3]

4. Resolve all cards in your playing area one at a time in any order you choose.[3]

End of Turn

1. Flip your Vampire token to its resting side (face down).[3][6]

2. Discard all cards from your playing area that are not Permanent cards.[6]

3. Activate any End of Turn effects.[6]

4. Any unspent Speed is lost at the end of your turn.[3]

5. If you are the last player to take a turn, proceed to the "Prepare for the Next Turn" phase.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.2 · Prepare Your 1 st T urn

[2] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.4 · how to play · A Determine the T urn Order · B It's Open Season · 1- ACTIVATE YOUR DISCARD/DRAW EFFECTS · 2- CALCULATE AND SPEND YOUR SPEED · TURN ORDER PRIORITY PER REGION:

[4] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.4 · TURN ORDER PRIORITY IN THE SAME REGION: · Your turn is divided into 3 steps:

[5] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.8 · Effect Icons · Bonus tokens

[6] RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook · p.6 · TYPES OF CARDS · C- Prepare for the Next T urn · end of the game and FINAL SCORING

The book has spoken.

🔧 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 109 ms · ask 8447 ms · total 35677 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 27119 ms · generation 8558 ms
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base rulebook doc 1294 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 0.88949 of 1665 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:13 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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	how to play · A Determine the T urn Order · B It's Open Season · 1- ACTIVATE YOUR DISCARD/DRAW EFFECTS · 2- CALCULATE AND SPEND YOUR SPEED · TURN ORDER PRIORITY PER REGION:	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Prepare Your 1 st T urn	p.2	0.046544 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.2	0.046176 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TURN ORDER PRIORITY IN THE SAME REGION: · Your turn is divided into 3 steps:	p.4	0.045695 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Safe ? · EXAMPLE OF A PLAYER ' S TURN · Mission Scoring 21 22 23 24 26 25	p.7	0.045002 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Components · Organizing the Board · Prepare the Missions	p.2	0.044567 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.2	0.044408 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TYPES OF CARDS · C- Prepare for the Next T urn · end of the game and FINAL SCORING	p.6	0.029911 (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 25 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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	how to play · A Determine the T urn Order · B It's Open Season · 1- ACTIVATE YOUR DISCARD/DRAW EFFECTS · 2- CALCULATE AND SPEND YOUR SPEED · TURN ORDER PRIORITY PER REGION:	p.4	#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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Prepare Your 1 st T urn	p.2	#2	0.046544 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Effect Icons · Bonus tokens	p.8	#13	0.028324 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.6	#14	0.027588 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.2	#7	0.044408 (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
#6	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.2	#3	0.046176 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TYPES OF CARDS · C- Prepare for the Next T urn · end of the game and FINAL SCORING	p.6	#8	0.029911 (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
#8	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TURN ORDER PRIORITY IN THE SAME REGION: · Your turn is divided into 3 steps:	p.4	#4	0.045695 (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 The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Prepare Your 1 st T urn	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	how to play · A Determine the T urn Order · B It's Open Season · 1- ACTIVATE YOUR DISCARD/DRAW EFFECTS · 2- CALCULATE AND SPEND YOUR SPEED · TURN ORDER PRIORITY PER REGION:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TURN ORDER PRIORITY IN THE SAME REGION: · Your turn is divided into 3 steps:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	Effect Icons · Bonus tokens	p.8	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK The Hunger — Rulebook (corpus doc 1294)	TYPES OF CARDS · C- Prepare for the Next T urn · end of the game and FINAL SCORING	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 109 ms · first delta 1988 ms · total 35677 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 27119 ms · retrieval 109 ms · ask 8447 ms · gateway work 8558 ms · total 35677 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4322
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 539
tok/sec: 83.7 tok/sec — 539 output tokens in 6.443 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 5s 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 1224), 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.