You asked
How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilizationbg-182028-en-1e
The table has its answer — dice up.
🔧 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 145 ms · ask 3507 ms · total 7080 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 3426 ms · generation 3654 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 3, "score": 0.048412, "snippet": "Your turn consists of these phases and steps: Start-of-Turn Sequence: -Replenish the card row. -Resolve a war, if necessary. -Make exclusive tactics available, if necessary. Politics Phase Action Phase End-of-Turn Sequence: -Discard excess military cards. -Production Phase. (Skip during an uprising.", "headingPath": "Course of the turn · first turn · repLenish the Card row", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.048387, "snippet": "During the Action Phase, you may spend your civil and military actions to perform any combination of the actions described in this section in any order. On your first turn , you are not allowed to do anything except take cards from the card row. (If you take a wonder, you do put it into play.) You c", "headingPath": "resiGn · take a non-wonder Card from the Card row · take a wonder from the Card row · inCrease popuLation", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.047163, "snippet": "This rulebook presents all the rules for Through the Ages in a point-by-point format. It is especially useful for players who need to find a rule quickly. Players who are learning the game should not start with this rulebook. Instead, they should learn from the Handbook , which provides thematic bac", "headingPath": "Code of Laws", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.045688, "snippet": "The destroyed wonder counts as a completed wonder of the corresponding age for all purposes. That means you pay one extra civil action when taking a new wonder, it is scored by the Impact of Wonders event, another player can benefit from it through the International Tourism pact, etc. The usual rule", "headingPath": "ravaGes of time · internationaL aGreement", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.043905, "snippet": "If an effect tells you to lose 1 population , you move one unused worker to your yellow bank. If you have no unused worker, you must take one from your cards. An equivalent term is lose workers . Your action total changes only when a card enters or leaves play. This will affect your spent and availa", "headingPath": "when your aCtion totaL ChanGes · disContent workers", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Once you declare the end of your Action Phase, follow the End-of-Turn Sequence in order. -Lose resources equal to your corruption. Only the first step requires a player decision. Once you have chosen military cards to discard, the rest is automatic. To keep the game moving, the next player may start", "headingPath": "end-of-turn sequenCe · disCard exCess miLitary Cards · CheCk for an uprisinG · produCtion phase · Food Consumption · Resource Production", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "You may use your political action to resign. Your civilization immediately leaves play. You have lost. Discard your hand and remove all cards in your play area from play. If you are party to any pact in someone else's play area, remove that pact from play. If there are any wars declared against you,", "headingPath": "resiGn", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "You can do this only if you already have an unfinished wonder in play. Pay 1 civil action. Pay resources indicated by the leftmost uncovered cost depicted on the wonder. Cover that cost with a blue token from your blue bank. -If there are no tokens in your blue bank, use one from your technology car", "headingPath": "BuiLd a staGe of a wonder · deveLop a teChnoLoGy · deCLare a revoLution", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Course of the turn · first turn · repLenish the Card row", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "resiGn · take a non-wonder Card from the Card row · take a wonder from the Card row · inCrease popuLation", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "end-of-turn sequenCe · disCard exCess miLitary Cards · CheCk for an uprisinG · produCtion phase · Food Consumption · Resource Production", "sharpsignalDocId": 242}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 242 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 242 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 0.89447 of 1393 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Oct 24, 2026 20:28 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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | Course of the turn · first turn · repLenish the Card row | p.3 | 0.048412 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | resiGn · take a non-wonder Card from the Card row · take a wonder from the Card row · inCrease popuLation | p.5 | 0.048387 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | Code of Laws | p.1 | 0.047163 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | ravaGes of time · internationaL aGreement | p.12 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | when your aCtion totaL ChanGes · disContent workers | p.10 | 0.043905 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | end-of-turn sequenCe · disCard exCess miLitary Cards · CheCk for an uprisinG · produCtion phase · Food Consumption · Resource Production | p.6 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | resiGn | p.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)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | BuiLd a staGe of a wonder · deveLop a teChnoLoGy · deCLare a revoLution | p.5 | 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 |
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 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 at | document | heading | page | fused rank | fused RRF score | carried by | how it got its slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | Course of the turn · first turn · repLenish the Card row | p.3 | #1 | 0.048412 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | Code of Laws | p.1 | #3 | 0.047163 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | ravaGes of time · internationaL aGreement | p.12 | #4 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | when your aCtion totaL ChanGes · disContent workers | p.10 | #5 | 0.043905 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | offer a paCt · CanCeL a paCt | p.4 | #12 | 0.027746 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | ... your CiviLization | p.11 | #14 | 0.027056 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | end-of-turn sequenCe · disCard exCess miLitary Cards · CheCk for an uprisinG · produCtion phase · Food Consumption · Resource Production | p.6 | #6 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | resiGn · take a non-wonder Card from the Card row · take a wonder from the Card row · inCrease popuLation | p.5 | #2 | 0.048387 (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 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | Course of the turn · first turn · repLenish the Card row | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | resiGn · take a non-wonder Card from the Card row · take a wonder from the Card row · inCrease popuLation | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization — Rulebook (corpus doc 242) | end-of-turn sequenCe · disCard exCess miLitary Cards · CheCk for an uprisinG · produCtion phase · Food Consumption · Resource Production | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 145 ms · first delta 1487 ms · total 7080 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 3426 ms · retrieval 145 ms · ask 3507 ms · gateway work 3654 ms · total 7080 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4160
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 418
- tok/sec
- 201.3 tok/sec — 418 output tokens in 2.077 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 54s 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 7s 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 168), 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.