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Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clockbg-429405-en-1e

I looked through Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock's rulebook and couldn't find a solid answer to that one — and I'd rather tell you so than guess at your table. Try asking it another way, or ask me about setup, turns, or how the game ends: those I know cold.

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RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.4 · 4.2. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER SETUP · 4.3. HAMMERS AND INITIAL RESOURCES
Each player performs these steps: Place your personal board in the centre of your play area, along with your warehouse and forge. Place your 5 deviation tokens at the top of your personal board so the side that does not show the gear icon is facing up. Place your rooster disc in the first position o
RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.8 · 10.3. USING A SCROLL · 10.4. PLACING AN ASSISTANT · 10.5. CLAIMING AN OBJECTIVE · 10.6. EXCHANGING RESOURCES FOR GOLD
Flip over a scroll tile from your play area to gain the indicated bonus. Keep the used scroll in your play area. All scrolls are described in section 15 of the Appendix on page 23. Pay the resource indicated below a workshop card to place an assistant from your warehouse onto the card. Gain the bonu
RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.4 · 5.1. IMMEDIATE AND ENDGAME VICTORY POINTS · 5.2. RESOURCES · 5.2.1. Basic resources · 5.2.2. Special resources
In the game, there are two types of scoring: immediate scoring and endgame scoring. From now on, we will refer to Victory Points as VP. This icon indicates that this scoring is resolved immediately. Move your marker forward on the scoring track as many spaces as the icon indicates. This icon indicat
RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.11 · 14. TIPS FOR PLAYING ORLOJ · 3. CLOCK FACE SECTIONS · 2. OUTER RING SECTIONS
Orloj is a complex game and reading the game state can be difficult in the first few plays. Here are some recommendations: Avoid spreading yourself across all three mastery tracks. It is more effective to focus on two. Any combination can work, but some will be stronger depending on which common sta
RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.5 · 7.1. ACTIVATING THE CLOCK MECHANISM · 7.2. PASSING · 8. ACTIONS
You must have at least one available worker to choose this option. Configure the clock so that the hand of the astronomical dial points to a section of the outer ring and a section of the Orloj clock face. To do this, follow these steps: Configure the astronomical dial. The astronomical dial always
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
outcome
ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
warm abstain
  • this ruling — W1 — generic warm abstain · receipt: none (generic)
corpus profile
live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings
search 227 ms · ask 2315 ms · total 2545 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 2545 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1052 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1052 boosted
answered-before recall
no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row recorded
Sep 15, 2026 09:17 UTC

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.2. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER SETUP · 4.3. HAMMERS AND INITIAL RESOURCES p.4 0.045945 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 10.3. USING A SCROLL · 10.4. PLACING AN ASSISTANT · 10.5. CLAIMING AN OBJECTIVE · 10.6. EXCHANGING RESOURCES FOR GOLD p.8 0.045743 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 5.1. IMMEDIATE AND ENDGAME VICTORY POINTS · 5.2. RESOURCES · 5.2.1. Basic resources · 5.2.2. Special resources p.4 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
#4 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 14. TIPS FOR PLAYING ORLOJ · 3. CLOCK FACE SECTIONS · 2. OUTER RING SECTIONS p.11 0.045476 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 7.1. ACTIVATING THE CLOCK MECHANISM · 7.2. PASSING · 8. ACTIONS p.5 0.04311 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.1. GENERAL SETUP p.3 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
#7 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.1. GENERAL SETUP p.3 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
#8 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 9. THE ROOSTER'S CALL p.7 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 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 37 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.2. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER SETUP · 4.3. HAMMERS AND INITIAL RESOURCES p.4 #1 0.045945 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.1. GENERAL SETUP p.3 #6 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
#3 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.1. GENERAL SETUP p.3 #25 0.012821 (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
#4 RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 10.3. USING A SCROLL · 10.4. PLACING AN ASSISTANT · 10.5. CLAIMING AN OBJECTIVE · 10.6. EXCHANGING RESOURCES FOR GOLD p.8 #2 0.045743 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 13.2. JOSEF MÁNES' COMPONENT SETUP · 13.3. SOLO MODE GAME FLOW · 13.4. PARTICULARITIES OF JOSEF MÁNES' TURN p.10 #12 0.02781 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 7.1. ACTIVATING THE CLOCK MECHANISM · 7.2. PASSING · 8. ACTIONS p.5 #5 0.04311 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 14. TIPS FOR PLAYING ORLOJ · 3. CLOCK FACE SECTIONS · 2. OUTER RING SECTIONS p.11 #4 0.045476 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052) 4.1. GENERAL SETUP p.3 #7 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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
timing split
retrieval 227 ms · first delta 2399 ms · total 2545 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 227 ms · ask 2315 ms · gateway work 2545 ms · total 2545 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
4137
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
9
tok/sec
180.0 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.050 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 20s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage)
reachable (for 23h, checked 2s 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.
outcome
ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale
I don't have enough information.
BOILERPLATE, not reasoning: this is the answerer's fixed abstention phrase, the same sentence it emits whenever it declines. It records THAT the answerer declined and never why — no per-ruling reason was captured, because none was sent. Hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 982), 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.