You asked
How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredOn your turn, perform a total of 2 actions [1]. (Exception: During the first round of the Canal Era, each player performs only 1 action) [1]. For each action you perform, you must discard a card from your Hand and place it face up on top of your Discard Pile [1]. You may choose to perform one of the following actions for each action (and you may perform the same action twice): [2] 1. **Build**: Place one of your Industry tiles onto the board, paying the appropriate cost and consuming any required coal/iron [2]. You must follow specific rules regarding location icons [3], connectivity to coal sources [3], and overbuilding [4]. Only Build requires a specific card [2]. If you build a Coal Mine or Iron Works, you may move cubes to their associated Market and collect money [3]. 2. **Network**: Expand your canal or rail network by adding Link tiles to the board [2]. 3. **Develop**: Gain access to higher-level industries by removing Industry tiles from your Player Mat [2]. You must discard a card from your Hand, remove 1 or 2 Industry tiles (the lowest level of the chosen industry), and consume 1 iron for each tile removed [5]. 4. **Sell**: Flip your built Cotton Mill tiles by selling to the Distant Cotton Market or by flipping a Port tile [2]. If the Distant Cotton Market Marker reaches the 'X' space, you must immediately end the Sell action [5]. 5. **Loan**: Take a £10/£20/£30 loan from the Bank and move your Income Marker 1/2/3 income levels backwards [2]. Loans are never repaid but lower your income level [5]. You cannot take a loan during the final 4 rounds of the Rail Era [5]. 6. **Pass**: You may choose to pass instead of performing an action, but you must still discard a card for each action you pass [2]. Additionally: * You may discard any 2 cards to use both of your actions at the same time, which allows you to build any Industry tile in any location with a space for that industry [4]. * Any time you spend money to perform an action, you must place it on top of your Character tile on the Turn Order Track [2]. * After all actions are completed, refill your Hand back up to 8 cards with cards from the Draw Deck [1].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 242 ms · ask 8299 ms · total 8554 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 8554 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "score": 0.032522, "snippet": "For each action, you may choose to perform one of the following (you may perform the same action twice): Build Place one of your Industry tiles onto the board, paying the appropriate cost and consuming any required coal / iron. Note: Only Build requires a specific card. Network Expand your canal or ", "headingPath": "ACTIONS LIST", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032266, "snippet": "The game is played over 2 eras: the Canal Era (1770-1830) and the Rail Era (1830-1870). The winner is the player who has the most Victory Points (VPs) following the end of the Rail Era. VPs are scored at the end of each era for your Link tiles and flipped Industry tiles. Each era is played in rounds", "headingPath": "END OF ROUND · ROUNDS · PLAYER TURNS", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030536, "snippet": "Take a Player Mat. Take £ 30 from the Bank N . Choose a coloured Character tile. Place the matching coloured Link tiles in your player area O . Q Stack the matching coloured Industry tiles (which consist of Cotton Mills P , Ports , Shipyards R , Iron Works S , and Coal Mines T ) on their Place your ", "headingPath": "PLAYER AREA SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029911, "snippet": "Take the lowest level tile of the chosen industry from your Player Mat L and place it (the side with the black top half face down) on an undeveloped space in your chosen build location, obeying the following rules: If possible, place it on a space displaying only that industry's icon M . Otherwise, ", "headingPath": "A C T I O N S · Moving Coal and Iron to the Market · you must do the following: · Building If You Have No Tiles on the Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.028694, "snippet": "(23 December 1732 - 3 August 1792) Taught to read and write by his cousin, Arkwright began as an apprentice barber, but after an early widowing his business ambitions grew, and his second marriage provided the funds to pursue wigmaking. When wigs fell out of fashion, he turned to textiles and made i", "headingPath": "Sir Richard Arkwright · (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859)", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": ". If the Distant Cotton Market Marker reaches the 'X' space F , immediately end the Sell action. Do not continue to step 3 . Flip your Cotton Mill tile, and advance your Income Marker along the Progress Track by the number of spaces shown in the bottom right corner of the tile. You may go back to st", "headingPath": "Proceed to step · LOAN ACTION · To perform the Loan action: · DEVELOP ACTION · To perform the Develop action: · NETWORK ACTION", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "Discard 1 card for every single action you perform, including passing. Only Build actions need a specific card. You can perform the same action twice in a turn. For instance, you may place 1 or 2 rail Links with the Network action, then use the Network action again to place 1 or 2 rail Links. You ma", "headingPath": "THINGS TO REMEMBER · INTRODUCTORY GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Take money from the Bank equal to your income level. Income is not collected at the end of the final round of the Exception: game. Your income level is the number displayed on the coin beside your Income Marker's current location on the Progress Track E . If your income level is negative F , you mus", "headingPath": "Take Income · END OF CANAL & RAIL ERA · Score Canal/Rail Links · Score Flipped Industry Tiles · END OF CANAL ERA · Remove Obsolete Industries · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF ROUND · ROUNDS · PLAYER TURNS", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ACTIONS LIST", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "A C T I O N S · Moving Coal and Iron to the Market · you must do the following: · Building If You Have No Tiles on the Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THINGS TO REMEMBER · INTRODUCTORY GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Proceed to step · LOAN ACTION · To perform the Loan action: · DEVELOP ACTION · To perform the Develop action: · NETWORK ACTION", "sharpsignalDocId": 111}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- 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)
- debug row retained until
- Oct 31, 2026 02:57
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | ACTIONS LIST | p.4 | 0.032522 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | END OF ROUND · ROUNDS · PLAYER TURNS | p.4 | 0.032266 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | PLAYER AREA SETUP | p.3 | 0.030536 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | A C T I O N S · Moving Coal and Iron to the Market · you must do the following: · Building If You Have No Tiles on the Board | p.5 | 0.029911 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | Sir Richard Arkwright · (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859) | p.2 | 0.028694 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | Proceed to step · LOAN ACTION · To perform the Loan action: · DEVELOP ACTION · To perform the Develop action: · NETWORK ACTION | p.6 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | THINGS TO REMEMBER · INTRODUCTORY GAME | p.7 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | Take Income · END OF CANAL & RAIL ERA · Score Canal/Rail Links · Score Flipped Industry Tiles · END OF CANAL ERA · Remove Obsolete Industries · … | p.4 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
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 Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | END OF ROUND · ROUNDS · PLAYER TURNS | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | ACTIONS LIST | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | A C T I O N S · Moving Coal and Iron to the Market · you must do the following: · Building If You Have No Tiles on the Board | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | THINGS TO REMEMBER · INTRODUCTORY GAME | p.7 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Brass: Lancashire — Rulebook (corpus doc 111) | Proceed to step · LOAN ACTION · To perform the Loan action: · DEVELOP ACTION · To perform the Develop action: · NETWORK ACTION | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 242 ms · first delta n/a · total 8554 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 242 ms · ask 8299 ms · gateway work 8554 ms · total 8554 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 43s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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 19), 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.