Ruling — Wingspan

You asked

What is the best opening move in chess?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Appendix · p.2 · End of the Round

Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Place 1 action cube to mark your score on the end-of-round goal: If playing with majority goals and players tie, add the values of the tied and next places and divide by number of players, rounded down. 4th place scores 0. If playing with points-per-item

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.5 · Round Structure

When all players have placed all of their action cubes, the round is over. Follow these steps in order: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and restock the bird tray with cards fro

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Oceania Expansion · p.1 · End of Round Reference OE

1. Use round end bird powers (if playing with European Expansion). 2. Discard any unused nectar. 3. Score end-of-round goal. 4. Remove all action cubes. Discard and replace all cards in the bird tray. If Round 4 is over, use game-end powers. Otherwise, pass the first-player token. WS_OE_Punchboard_r

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.11 · END OF THE ROUND

When players have placed all their available action cubes (1 cube per turn), the round is over. At round end: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and replenish them. Rotate the fir

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.4 · Duet Mode

Pass the first player token to the player who came in second on the end-of-round goal. If the players tied, then pass it to the other player. Round one: 8 turns per player Round two: 7 turns per player Round three: 6 turns per player Round four: 5 turns per player DESIGNER'S NOTE: Players have fewer

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): unset-dev (corpus lane freezes the deploy value)
timings: search 107 ms · ask 2597 ms · total 2714 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 2714 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 2, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Place 1 action cube to mark your score on the end-of-round goal: If playing with majority goals and players tie, add the values of the tied and next places and divide by number of players, rounded down. 4th place scores 0. If playing with points-per-item", "headingPath": "End of the Round", "sharpsignalDocId": 46}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "When all players have placed all of their action cubes, the round is over. Follow these steps in order: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and restock the bird tray with cards fro", "headingPath": "Round Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "1. Use round end bird powers (if playing with European Expansion). 2. Discard any unused nectar. 3. Score end-of-round goal. 4. Remove all action cubes. Discard and replace all cards in the bird tray. If Round 4 is over, use game-end powers. Otherwise, pass the first-player token. WS_OE_Punchboard_r", "headingPath": "End of Round Reference OE", "sharpsignalDocId": 48}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "When players have placed all their available action cubes (1 cube per turn), the round is over. At round end: Remove all action cubes from your player mat. Score the end-of-round goal for the round you just completed. Discard all face-up bird cards on the bird tray and replenish them. Rotate the fir", "headingPath": "END OF THE ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Pass the first player token to the player who came in second on the end-of-round goal. If the players tied, then pass it to the other player. Round one: 8 turns per player Round two: 7 turns per player Round three: 6 turns per player Round four: 5 turns per player DESIGNER'S NOTE: Players have fewer", "headingPath": "Duet Mode", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "When all players have placed all of their action cubes, the round is over. Follow these steps in order: Use 1 of your action cubes to mark your score on the end-of-round goal. As a result, you will have 1 fewer action cube to use each round: Use round-end bird powers for birds on your player mat. Sc", "headingPath": "Round Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "Place an action cube in the leftmost exposed slot in the 'DRAW CARDS' row on your player mat, and draw the number of cards shown there from either the face-up cards on the bird tray or the bird deck. There is no limit on how many cards you can have in your hand. If the slot where you placed your act", "headingPath": "When you choose to draw cards, do the following:", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "+ ONCE BETWEEN TURNS: When another player takes the 'gain food' action, if they gain any number of , also gain 1 from the supply and cache it on this card. Shrikes impale their prey on thorns or barbed wire, and may save them for later. Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus", "headingPath": "Swainson's Hawk", "sharpsignalDocId": 65}]
citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): gate not evaluated for this ruling (boost, supersedence, and wrench all off at ask time), and the base-rulebook arm went unrecorded for the same reason — the wrench that would have stored it was off; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=false, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=false
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 8, 2026 05:22

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 Wingspan — Appendix (corpus doc 46)	End of the Round	p.2	0.016393 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45)	Round Structure	p.5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Oceania Expansion (corpus doc 48)	End of Round Reference OE	p.1	0.015873 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45)	END OF THE ROUND	p.11	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
#5	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Duet Mode	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
#6	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Round Structure	p.4	0.015152 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	When you choose to draw cards, do the following:	p.9	0.014925 (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	OFFICIAL Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) (corpus doc 65)	Swainson's Hawk	p.10	0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded)	274

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 107 ms · first delta n/a · total 2714 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 107 ms · ask 2597 ms · gateway work 2714 ms · total 2714 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 49s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: the answerer offered no rationale text with this refusal (or the ruling predates the abstain_rationale column, V41)

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

6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against

anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4

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.