You asked
When does the game end?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Welcome To...bg-233867-en-1e
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 135 ms · ask 1628 ms · total 6670 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 4905 ms · generation 1765 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 9, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "This variant enables someone to play a game of Welcome by trying to achieve the best score ever. Shuffle the Construction cards and create two equal stacks. Compose a unique stack of Construction cards by adding the Solo card to one of the two stacks then putting this stack under the other. The Cons", "headingPath": "The game ends : · Set up : · Game turn : · End of the game :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.048387, "snippet": "20 A City Plan presents a goal set by the City to its architects ; for instance building a certain number of housing estates with mandated sizes. The first players who fill their sheet, during the same turn, with all the required conditions of one of the three Plans immediately earn the points : the", "headingPath": "y «Bis» : · Housing estates Plans : · The game ends :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.046671, "snippet": "22 These goals can be added up to the basic version Plans, the same rules apply to them. To achieve these goals, all houses must be built in the required street. To achieve this goal, the first and the last houses of each of the streets must be built. To achieve these goals, all the parks AND all th", "headingPath": "End of the game : · Additional City Plans : · List of objectives :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.045921, "snippet": "During his turn, in addition to building a house and activating an effect, an architect can decide to create one of the two roundabouts available on an empty house's box. He then draws a circle and a dot instead of the number and builds estate fences to the left and to the right of the roundabout. T", "headingPath": "Roundabout : · Set up · Game turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.045285, "snippet": "If a player writes the house number associated with the Pool Manufacturer effect in a house that actually has a pool planned, then the pool is built. The player checks the next pool in his scale of pools (checked in ascending order : 0, 3, 6 etc.). y Note y A player can write a number in a house tha", "headingPath": "y Pool Manufacturer : · y Temp Agency : · y «Bis» :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.045235, "snippet": "In Welcome, players are American architects in the 50s, during the Baby Boom. But beware of the competition ! Who will best accomplish the city plans by creating the nicest housing estates in the three streets he's been assigned, with their luxurious parks and fancy pools ? Welcome is a game where e", "headingPath": "y 1 Scoring pad", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "At the beginning of each turn, the card from the top of each stack is turned over and placed next to it, effect side up, creating three combinations : House Number/Effect. Turned over cards will be stacked in three discarded stacks. The players turn is simultaneous : Each player individually picks o", "headingPath": "y 1 Scoring pad · y Note y", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "The blue dog gives a gratitude-filled lick to Andrée Frances, Bruno Desch, Matthieu Halfen, Christophe Hermier, Jean-Emmanuel Gilbert, Michel Schoenacker, Alain Blaizeau, Nathalie Geoffrin, Renaud Challiat and Lola Estève. And a bark to the \"Dice Killer\" Fred & Didier. The game designer thanks Virgi", "headingPath": "Thanks", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The game ends : · Set up : · Game turn : · End of the game :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "y «Bis» : · Housing estates Plans : · The game ends :", "sharpsignalDocId": 246}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 246 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 246 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 0.90496 of 242 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Oct 24, 2026 23:13 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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | The game ends : · Set up : · Game turn : · End of the game : | p.9 | 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y «Bis» : · Housing estates Plans : · The game ends : | p.8 | 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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | End of the game : · Additional City Plans : · List of objectives : | p.10 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | Roundabout : · Set up · Game turn | p.11 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y Pool Manufacturer : · y Temp Agency : · y «Bis» : | p.7 | 0.045285 (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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y 1 Scoring pad | p.3 | 0.045235 (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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y 1 Scoring pad · y Note y | p.5 | 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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | Thanks | p.12 | 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 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 13 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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | The game ends : · Set up : · Game turn : · End of the game : | p.9 | #1 | 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | End of the game : · Additional City Plans : · List of objectives : | p.10 | #3 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y Surveyor : · y Real Estate Agent : · y Landscaper : | p.6 | #9 | 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)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | Roundabout : · Set up · Game turn | p.11 | #4 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | Thanks | p.12 | #8 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y Pool Manufacturer : · y Temp Agency : · y «Bis» : | p.7 | #5 | 0.045285 (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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y 1 Scoring pad | p.3 | #6 | 0.045235 (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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y «Bis» : · Housing estates Plans : · The game ends : | p.8 | #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 Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | The game ends : · Set up : · Game turn : · End of the game : | p.9 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Welcome To... — Rulebook (corpus doc 246) | y «Bis» : · Housing estates Plans : · The game ends : | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 135 ms · first delta 1271 ms · total 6670 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 4905 ms · retrieval 135 ms · ask 1628 ms · gateway work 1765 ms · total 6670 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3457
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 73
- tok/sec
- 201.7 tok/sec — 73 output tokens in 0.362 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s 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 0s 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 172), 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.