Ruling — Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends

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When does the game end?

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The end-of-game trigger depends on the specific form of the game being played:

* High Form (2 players or teams): The end of the game is triggered if either player has 9 points or more,[1] or if either player draws the last card from his or her deck.[1]

* First Game: The game stops when someone gets 6 points or draws the last card in his or her deck.[2]

* Other 2-player/Team variations: The game ends when either player has 6 or more points, or when either player draws the last card from his or her deck.[3]

* Team Play (specifically regarding point thresholds): The end of the game is triggered when either player exceeds 17 points, or if either player draws the last card from his or her deck.[4]

* Four-player game (specific trigger example): The game can be triggered when a player reaches a specific point value in a color, such as 10 brown points.[5]

* General rule for all forms: The end of the game is triggered if any player draws his or her last non-sideways card.[6][7]

Once the end of the game has been triggered, the following sequence occurs:

1. The player finishes his or her turn and announces that the end of the game was triggered.[2]

2. Play continues in the usual order, with each other player getting one final turn.[2]

3. The player who was playing or finishing his or her turn when the end was triggered takes a final turn.[2]

4. Players compare scores according to the rules for the form they are playing.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.8 · Ending the Game · DEATHMATCH DUEL (2 PLAYERS OR TEAMS) · PLAYERS · Game Play · POINTS FOR DESTROYED PIECES

[2] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.7 · Piece Shortage · Ending the Game

[3] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.6

[4] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.9 · POINTS FOR FLARES · Ending the Game · TEAM PLAY · GAME BOARDS

[5] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.12 · SCORING · The Patterns

[6] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.9 · PLAYERS · Game Play

[7] RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook · p.10 · FINISHING YOUR TURN · Ending the Game · Sideways Cards · Communication · Take Backs

The book has spoken.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 170 ms · ask 3261 ms · total 11407 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 7973 ms · generation 3434 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 766 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 766 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 0.90075 of 1199 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 24, 2026 18:25 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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Piece Shortage · Ending the Game	p.7	0.04866 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Example: · Ending the Game · SCORING	p.11	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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Ending the Game · DEATHMATCH DUEL (2 PLAYERS OR TEAMS) · PLAYERS · Game Play · POINTS FOR DESTROYED PIECES	p.8	0.047379 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	POINTS FOR FLARES · Ending the Game · TEAM PLAY · GAME BOARDS	p.9	0.047371 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	FINISHING YOUR TURN · Ending the Game · Sideways Cards · Communication · Take Backs	p.10	0.045921 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)		p.6	0.045688 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	PLAYERS · Game Play	p.10	0.044557 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Example: · FINISHING YOUR TURN	p.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))	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 42 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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Ending the Game · DEATHMATCH DUEL (2 PLAYERS OR TEAMS) · PLAYERS · Game Play · POINTS FOR DESTROYED PIECES	p.8	#3	0.047379 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)		p.6	#6	0.045688 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	POINTS FOR FLARES · Ending the Game · TEAM PLAY · GAME BOARDS	p.9	#4	0.047371 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	PLAYERS · Game Play	p.9	#9	0.028778 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	PLAYERS · Game Play	p.10	#7	0.044557 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	SCORING · The Patterns	p.12	#10	0.028439 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Piece Shortage · Ending the Game	p.7	#1	0.04866 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	FINISHING YOUR TURN · Ending the Game · Sideways Cards · Communication · Take Backs	p.10	#5	0.045921 (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 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Ending the Game · DEATHMATCH DUEL (2 PLAYERS OR TEAMS) · PLAYERS · Game Play · POINTS FOR DESTROYED PIECES	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	Piece Shortage · Ending the Game	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	POINTS FOR FLARES · Ending the Game · TEAM PLAY · GAME BOARDS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	SCORING · The Patterns	p.12	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	PLAYERS · Game Play	p.9	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends — Rulebook (corpus doc 766)	FINISHING YOUR TURN · Ending the Game · Sideways Cards · Communication · Take Backs	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 170 ms · first delta 1528 ms · total 11407 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 7973 ms · retrieval 170 ms · ask 3261 ms · gateway work 3434 ms · total 11407 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4203
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 365
tok/sec: 200.8 tok/sec — 365 output tokens in 1.818 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 28s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 5h, checked 3s 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 700), 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.