Ruling — Diplomacy

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When does the game end?

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The game ends in the following ways: * If one Great Power controls 18 or more supply centers after a Fall turn, the game ends and that player is declared the winner [1]. * Players can end the game by agreement before a winner is determined; in this instance, all players who still have pieces on the game board share equally in a draw [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Diplomacy — Rulebook · p.6 · overview · Spring four-phase turn · Fall five-phase turn · Gamemaster

[2] RULEBOOK Diplomacy — Rulebook · p.4 · Table Of cOnTenTs · PlayeRs anD cOUnTRies · ObJecT Of THe gaMe · gaMe bOaRD

🔧 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 234 ms · ask 7418 ms · total 7662 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7662 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 158 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 158 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)
debug row retained until: Nov 2, 2026 09:37

retrieval — what the search arm returned

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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	overview · Spring four-phase turn · Fall five-phase turn · Gamemaster	p.6	0.048652 (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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	cOnTROlling sUPPly cenTeRs · aDJUsTing nUMbeR Of UniTs · DisbanDing · bUilDing	p.18	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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	aDDiTiOnal bUilDing RUles · WRiTing bUilDs anD DisbanDMenTs · TiMe ManageMenT	p.19	0.046154 (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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	1. diplomatiC phase · 2. order writing phase · ORDeR DaTes	p.6	0.045928 (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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	spring 1902	p.22	0.045724 (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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	3. the order resolution phase · 4. retreat and disbanding phase · WRiTing ReTReaTs · DisbanDMenT	p.18	0.032787 (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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	ciVil DisORDeR · alTeRnaTe Way TO Play	p.19	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 Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	Table Of cOnTenTs · PlayeRs anD cOUnTRies · ObJecT Of THe gaMe · gaMe bOaRD	p.4	0.030415 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	overview · Spring four-phase turn · Fall five-phase turn · Gamemaster	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Diplomacy — Rulebook (corpus doc 158)	Table Of cOnTenTs · PlayeRs anD cOUnTRies · ObJecT Of THe gaMe · gaMe bOaRD	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 234 ms · first delta 7010 ms · total 7662 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 234 ms · ask 7418 ms · gateway work 7662 ms · total 7662 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4516
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 80
tok/sec: 135.4 tok/sec — 80 output tokens in 0.591 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s ago)
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 80), 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.