Ruling — Skymines

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How do I take my turn?

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The game begins with a Planning phase carried out by all players simultaneously:

1. Each player chooses cards from their hand and places them face down in the available action slots of their action area.[1]

2. All players turn their placed cards face up.[1]

During the Action phase, players may perform various actions:

* Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area:

1. Choose any number of face up resource cards of the same type (carbon, minerals, or titanium) from your action area, including at least one card.[2]

2. Use the total resource value to acquire a maximum of 1 card from the card display and/or advance on 1 or more company tracks with track markers.[2]

3. If the resource value equals the total cost of a card, take the card from the display and put it in your hand; if the value exceeds the cost, take the card into your hand and use the remaining units to advance on company tracks.[2]

4. Flip each card used for the resource value face down.[2]

5. Your turn ends.[2]

* Use all energy cards in your action area:

1. Choose a company.[3]

2. Add up the energy points of all energy cards in your action area and use that total to expand the chosen company by entering new sectors with outposts taken from that company's station.[3]

3. Once all energy points are spent, receive the rewards of the sectors entered.[3]

4. Your turn ends.[3]

* Use 1 research scientist card in your action area:

1. Move your upload marker and enter new research plans, paying required costs (such as CrypCoin) as needed.[4]

2. Utilize the total number of research points shown on the research scientist card.[4]

3. Flip the used research scientist card face down.[4]

4. Your turn ends.[4]

* Drop out of Action phase (performed only if you cannot or do not want to perform other actions):

1. Turn the face-down cards of your action area face up.[5]

2. Pick up exactly 1 of your resting decks.[5]

3. Take all cards of that chosen resting deck into your hand.[5]

4. Clean up your action area by moving each card in your action slots to a different resting slot of your choice (no more than one card per slot).[5]

5. Return any bonus tiles in your action area to the area below the right side of the game board.[5]

Additionally, if you meet the requirements of a task on a mission card during your turn, you may take your mission status card and place it directly below that task's mission card, gain 2 CrypCoin from the bank, and take the one-time bonus marker in that task's column to your reserve.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.10 · 1) Planning phase · a) Place cards face down in your action area · b) Flip cards face up · 2) Action phase

[2] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.11 · 2) Action phase · 1) Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area · Acquire 1 card from the card display · Advance on 1 or more company tracks · Example:

[3] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.12 · 2) Use all energy cards in your action area

[4] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.15 · 3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area

[5] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.18 · 6) Drop out of Action phase · 3) Preparation phase for the next round · a) Flip the next special research plan face up

[6] RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook · p.25 · Setup · Playing the game

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 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 144 ms · ask 4546 ms · total 6356 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1662 ms · generation 4694 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1) Planning phase · a) Place cards face down in your action area · b) Flip cards face up · 2) Action phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2) Action phase · 1) Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area · Acquire 1 card from the card display · Advance on 1 or more company tracks · Example:", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2) Use all energy cards in your action area", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}, {"page": 18, "quote": null, "headingPath": "6) Drop out of Action phase · 3) Preparation phase for the next round · a) Flip the next special research plan face up", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}, {"page": 25, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup · Playing the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 564}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 564 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 564 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 0.91189 of 2077 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 24, 2026 21:44 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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	6) Drop out of Action phase · 3) Preparation phase for the next round · a) Flip the next special research plan face up	p.18	0.04728 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	End of the game	p.19	0.046671 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	2) Action phase · 1) Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area · Acquire 1 card from the card display · Advance on 1 or more company tracks · Example:	p.11	0.044589 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area	p.15	0.044118 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	1) Planning phase · a) Place cards face down in your action area · b) Flip cards face up · 2) Action phase	p.10	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
#6	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)		p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area	p.15	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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area	p.14	0.030118 (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 57 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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	2) Use all energy cards in your action area	p.12	#31	0.011364 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	6) Drop out of Action phase · 3) Preparation phase for the next round · a) Flip the next special research plan face up	p.18	#1	0.04728 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	2) Action phase · 1) Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area · Acquire 1 card from the card display · Advance on 1 or more company tracks · Example:	p.11	#3	0.044589 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)		p.7	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	1) Planning phase · a) Place cards face down in your action area · b) Flip cards face up · 2) Action phase	p.10	#5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	End of the game	p.19	#2	0.046671 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	Setup · Playing the game	p.25	#10	0.029643 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area	p.15	#4	0.044118 (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 Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	1) Planning phase · a) Place cards face down in your action area · b) Flip cards face up · 2) Action phase	p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	2) Action phase · 1) Use 1 or more resource cards of a single type in your action area · Acquire 1 card from the card display · Advance on 1 or more company tracks · Example:	p.11	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	2) Use all energy cards in your action area	p.12	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	3) Use 1 research scientist card in your action area	p.15	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	6) Drop out of Action phase · 3) Preparation phase for the next round · a) Flip the next special research plan face up	p.18	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Skymines — Rulebook (corpus doc 564)	Setup · Playing the game	p.25	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 144 ms · first delta 1403 ms · total 6356 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1662 ms · retrieval 144 ms · ask 4546 ms · gateway work 4694 ms · total 6356 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3604
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 640
tok/sec: 199.8 tok/sec — 640 output tokens in 3.204 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 39s 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 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.

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 496), 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.