Ruling — Copenhagen

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Copenhagenbg-269595-en-1e

To play the game, follow these steps:

1. Setup: Place the harbor and scoring track in the center of the playing area.[1] Stack facade tiles by color and shape within reach of all players.[1] Shuffle the facade cards and stack them face down on the harbor to create the card supply.[1] (In a 3-player game, remove 2 cards of each color before shuffling and return them to the box).[1] Turn over the top 7 cards and place them in clockwise order next to the 7 footbridges to create the card display.[1] Place the End of Game card face up next to the scoring track (In a 2-player game, shuffle the End of Game card in with the top 9 cards from the supply and place them face down on the bottom of the supply).[1] Each player chooses a player color and takes the corresponding house and scoring marker.[1] Players place their house in front of them and their scoring marker on the starting space of their color on the scoring track.[1] Each player takes one of each type of ability tile per player, stacking them by type next to the scoring track, and returns any remaining tiles to the box.[1] Each player takes one "Any cards" and places it next to their house.[1]

2. Starting the Game: Beginning with the first player (recommended to be the oldest player) and continuing clockwise, each player draws their starting hand from the card supply.[2] The number of cards drawn is: 2 players (2 cards for 1st player, 3 for 2nd); 3 players (2 cards for 1st player, 3 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd); 4 players (2 cards for 1st player, 3 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 4 for 4th).[2]

3. On a Turn: The active player chooses one of two possible actions:[2]

* A) Take cards: The player takes 2 adjacent cards from the display and adds them to their hand; it is not permitted to take only one card.[2] The player then refills the display with cards from the supply.[2] If drawing cards puts the player over the 7 card limit, they must immediately discard down to 7 cards.[2]

* B) Construct facade: The player discards cards from their hand in exchange for a facade tile.[3] The number of cards discarded must match the number of squares (windows and brickwork) of the chosen tile, and all discarded cards must be of the same color as the chosen tile.[3] If the player places a tile such that at least one square touches a previously placed piece of the same color, they may discard one fewer card than normal.[3] The player must place the tile immediately, ensuring it can be rotated to fit the construction grid, and it must be placed on the bottom row or such that at least one square is directly above a previously placed tile.[3] A player can only take one facade tile per turn.[3]

4. Special Actions and Abilities:

* Players may use active ability tiles during their turn.[4] Once used, these tiles are flipped to their inactive side.[4]

* If a player covers a coat of arms or completes a coat of arms row, they perform one of three special actions: take one special tile, take one ability tile from the supply (active side up), or activate all inactive ability tiles.[5]

* Specific ability tiles allow for actions such as taking a third card from a footbridge, discarding one fewer card for a tile, or changing the color of cards.[4]

5. Scoring: Players score points when they complete a row or column:[5]

* 1 point for a row containing windows and brickwork, or just brickwork.[5]

* 2 points for a row made of windows only.[5]

* 2 points for a column containing windows and brickwork, or just brickwork.[5]

* 4 points for a column made of windows only.[5]

Players advance their scoring marker on the scoring track accordingly.[5]

6. Ending the Game: The game ends immediately when a player scores 12 or more points or the End of Game card is revealed.[5]

* If a player scores 12 or more points, they are the winner.[5]

* If the End of Game card is revealed, the player with the most points wins; in a tie, the player whose house has the fewest empty spaces wins; if the tie persists, players share the victory.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook · p.2 · Game Set-up · Red facade card

[2] RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook · p.3 · Start of the game · A) Take cards · Maximum Hand Size · End of Game card

[3] RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook · p.4 · B) Construct facade · 1. Pick a facade tile · Exception: · 2. Placing a Facade Tile (Construction Rules)

[4] RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook · p.6 · Ability Tiles · Any cards · Additional card · Construction discount · Change of colors · 2 nd case:

[5] RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook · p.5 · Coat of arms actions · 3. Score points · Row: · Column: · Ending the Game

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 81 ms · ask 6016 ms · total 62231 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 56131 ms · generation 6100 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game Set-up · Red facade card", "sharpsignalDocId": 1300}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Start of the game · A) Take cards · Maximum Hand Size · End of Game card", "sharpsignalDocId": 1300}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "B) Construct facade · 1. Pick a facade tile · Exception: · 2. Placing a Facade Tile (Construction Rules)", "sharpsignalDocId": 1300}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Ability Tiles · Any cards · Additional card · Construction discount · Change of colors · 2 nd case:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1300}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Coat of arms actions · 3. Score points · Row: · Column: · Ending the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 1300}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1300 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1300 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 0.91011 of 3293 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:14 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 Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Start of the game · A) Take cards · Maximum Hand Size · End of Game card	p.3	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 Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Game Set-up · Red facade card	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 Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Coat of arms actions · 3. Score points · Row: · Column: · Ending the Game	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Ability Tiles · Any cards · Additional card · Construction discount · Change of colors · 2 nd case:	p.6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Components · Object of the Game · Number x squares	p.1	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
#6	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	B) Construct facade · 1. Pick a facade tile · Exception: · 2. Placing a Facade Tile (Construction Rules)	p.4	0.030303 (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 6 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 Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Game Set-up · Red facade card	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
#2	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	B) Construct facade · 1. Pick a facade tile · Exception: · 2. Placing a Facade Tile (Construction Rules)	p.4	#6	0.030303 (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 Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Ability Tiles · Any cards · Additional card · Construction discount · Change of colors · 2 nd case:	p.6	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Components · Object of the Game · Number x squares	p.1	#5	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
#5	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Coat of arms actions · 3. Score points · Row: · Column: · Ending the Game	p.5	#3	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
#6	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Start of the game · A) Take cards · Maximum Hand Size · End of Game card	p.3	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Game Set-up · Red facade card	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Start of the game · A) Take cards · Maximum Hand Size · End of Game card	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	B) Construct facade · 1. Pick a facade tile · Exception: · 2. Placing a Facade Tile (Construction Rules)	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Ability Tiles · Any cards · Additional card · Construction discount · Change of colors · 2 nd case:	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Copenhagen — Rulebook (corpus doc 1300)	Coat of arms actions · 3. Score points · Row: · Column: · Ending the Game	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 81 ms · first delta 1086 ms · total 62231 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 56131 ms · retrieval 81 ms · ask 6016 ms · gateway work 6100 ms · total 62231 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3015
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 990
tok/sec: 201.1 tok/sec — 990 output tokens in 4.922 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 23s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 4s 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 1230), 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.