Ruling — Ezra and Nehemiah

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When does the game end?

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Asked with: Ezra and Nehemiahbg-386368-en-1e

The game ends after the third Sabbath has been completed.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook · p.10 · Gameplay Overview · Work Days

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🔧 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 193 ms · ask 1176 ms · total 1371 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 1371 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 29, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "Once all players have completed the 3rd and final Sabbath, end game scoring takes place. The first step is for all players to turn their remaining Gold, Stone, Wood, Cinders, and Food into Silver. Players don't necessarily need to do this physically, but should know the Silver values of each compone", "headingPath": "End Game Scoring · Scoring Victory Points", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 28, "score": 0.047131, "snippet": "In Rounds 1 and 2, the steps below must be carried out before beginning the next Round. In Round 3, move straight into end game scoring. Move the Prophets along the Altar Track to their positions for the next Round. In the example below, Zechariah would move to space 5, and Haggai to space 10. The p", "headingPath": "After Sabbath", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.046875, "snippet": "In his first year as king of Persia, Cyrus the Great issued a decree in writing to the Israelite exiles living under his rule: The God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem. Any of his people may go up to Jerusalem in Judah t", "headingPath": "Introduction · Aim of the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.045475, "snippet": "Ezra and Nehemiah is played over 3 Rounds. Each Round is structured around a week of 7 days: The first 6 days of each week are for work. On each of these days, all players will take a single turn, proceeding clockwise from the player holding the Shofar. The seventh day is a day of rest, known as the", "headingPath": "Gameplay Overview · Work Days", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 36, "score": 0.045002, "snippet": "During this step, your opponent only needs to resolve the Prophets' Judgment using their own conditions shown in the top-left corner of the Solo Board. How your opponent resolves each Sabbath is shown with icons across the middle of the Solo Board, and in text form on the Solo Player Aid. This varie", "headingPath": "Solo Mode: Prepare for Sabbath · Solo Mode: Sabbath · Solo Mode: After Sabbath · Solo Mode: End Game Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.043301, "snippet": "When placing Resources on the Altar, players can only use Wood or Cinders. Players may place multiple Resources of the same, or different type, granted they have the available Red Banners and Levites in order to do so. Immediately after placing each Resource, they will move 1-2 spaces on the Altar T", "headingPath": "Placing Resources on the Altar · Golden Tie-Break Rule:", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 25, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "After they have completed their turn, players must draw 1 Character Card from their Draw Pile, if possible. Only in the last Round will they potentially not have any Character Cards left to draw. In this case, they simply do not draw. Until this point, players will generally always have 4 Character ", "headingPath": "End of Turn · Prepare for Sabbath · Farmers and Labourers", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}, {"page": 38, "score": 0.030679, "snippet": "Rather than scoring 1VP per 5 Silver at the game's end, score 1VP per 3 Silver. Gain 1VP per complete set of 3 different Blessings at the game's end. Gain 1VP Immediately. Gain 1VP per every 3 Workers you have on the Main Board at the game's end. Gain 1VP Immediately. Gain 1VP per every 3 Gates and/", "headingPath": "Gold Scroll Tiles · Wood Scroll Tiles", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gameplay Overview · Work Days", "sharpsignalDocId": 482}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 482 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 482 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 0.92157 of 51 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 24, 2026 21:45 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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	End Game Scoring · Scoring Victory Points	p.29	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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	After Sabbath	p.28	0.047131 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Introduction · Aim of the Game	p.2	0.046875 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Gameplay Overview · Work Days	p.10	0.045475 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Solo Mode: Prepare for Sabbath · Solo Mode: Sabbath · Solo Mode: After Sabbath · Solo Mode: End Game Scoring	p.36	0.045002 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Placing Resources on the Altar · Golden Tie-Break Rule:	p.16	0.043301 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	End of Turn · Prepare for Sabbath · Farmers and Labourers	p.25	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
#8	RULEBOOK Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Gold Scroll Tiles · Wood Scroll Tiles	p.38	0.030679 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	End Game Scoring · Scoring Victory Points	p.29	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Gold Scroll Tiles · Wood Scroll Tiles	p.38	#8	0.030679 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Scoring Walls and Gates · Connecting Walls and Gates	p.19	#10	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
#4	RULEBOOK Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Solo Mode: Prepare for Sabbath · Solo Mode: Sabbath · Solo Mode: After Sabbath · Solo Mode: End Game Scoring	p.36	#5	0.045002 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Row Bonus · Scoring Scribes · White Workers (1-2 Players) · Tenting Around the City	p.21	#11	0.027826 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Main Action: Torah and Tenting Around the City · Teaching the Torah	p.20	#12	0.027778 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	After Sabbath	p.28	#2	0.047131 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Gameplay Overview · Work Days	p.10	#4	0.045475 (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 Ezra and Nehemiah — Rulebook (corpus doc 482)	Gameplay Overview · Work Days	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 193 ms · first delta 1160 ms · total 1371 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 193 ms · ask 1176 ms · gateway work 1371 ms · total 1371 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3454
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 14
tok/sec: 184.2 tok/sec — 14 output tokens in 0.076 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 30s 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 5s 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 413), 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.