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How do I hatch an egg?

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Asked with: Finspanbg-436126-en-1e

To hatch an egg, you must flip over the egg token so the young side is face up [1][2]. This can be done as a benefit of playing certain fish cards, such as the Catalina Goby [2] or Skipjack Tuna [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook · p.12 · ABILITY ICONOGRAPHY
[2] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook · p.6 · DIVE
[3] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook · p.7 · SAMPLE DIVE TURN

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outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile
live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings
search 218 ms · ask 6970 ms · total 7198 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 7198 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
[{"page": 12, "score": 0.047131, "snippet": "Play a fish from your hand on an empty or occupied slot on your ocean mat after paying its cost. As a cost: Discard a fish card from your hand. As a benefit: Draw a fish card from the deck. As a cost: Discard an egg from a fish. As a benefit: Put an egg on a fish (in your ocean) that doesn't already", "headingPath": "ABILITY ICONOGRAPHY", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "You place a diver at the top of the middle dive site to select it as your dive location. Starting at the top and moving down the column, you evaluate each zone's dive site bonus and activate the fish in that column. 1 Gain the topmost dive site bonus, since you have at least 1 fish in the Sunlight Z", "headingPath": "SAMPLE DIVE TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.044563, "snippet": "Diving involves choosing a dive site (1 of the 3 columns on your ocean mat) and moving a diver from top to bottom, gaining benefits along the way. Thematically, this represents observing and studying fish in their habitats. Follow these steps to dive: Select a dive site. Place an available diver at ", "headingPath": "DIVE", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "1 Place all egg/young and school tokens within reach of all players to form the general supply. 2 Shuffle the 10 starter fish cards and place them face down near the general supply. These 10 cards have dark gray corners and a different back than other fish cards. 3 Shuffle the deck of 125 fish cards", "headingPath": "SETUP GLOBAL COMPONENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "A Place an ocean mat (your 'ocean') in front of you. B Choose a player color and gain the 6 divers of that color. C Place 1 egg token on each of the 2 starting egg spaces (printed on forage fish) in your ocean. Forage fish are the three fish printed on your ocean mat. D Place 1 young token on the st", "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "A school forms whenever 3 or more young share the same slot in your ocean. When this occurs, immediately return 3 young from that slot to the supply and replace them with 1 school token (shown as this icon in the game: ). At the end of weeks 1 through 3: a. Score points for this week's achievement. ", "headingPath": "IMPORTANT NOTES SCHOOL TOKENS", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030679, "snippet": "In Finspan, the fish you discover over 4 weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean. Each dive site specializes in a key aspect of expanding your research: Grow your collection of fish. Discover freshly laid eggs. Hatch eggs into young, and nurture the young into scho", "headingPath": "OVERVIEW AND GOAL", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030622, "snippet": "Each turn, you will either play a fish or dive into your ocean. You will take 6 turns during each of the 4 weeks (a total of 24 turns per player during the entire game). You will typically spend the beginning of the game playing low-cost fish cards and laying eggs, the middle of the game playing hig", "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}]
citations (raw)
[{"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ABILITY ICONOGRAPHY", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "DIVE", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SAMPLE DIVE TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 54}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 54 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 54 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 09:41

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) ABILITY ICONOGRAPHY p.12 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
#2 RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) SAMPLE DIVE TURN p.7 0.047123 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) DIVE p.6 0.044563 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) SETUP GLOBAL COMPONENTS p.2 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
#5 RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) PLAYER SETUP p.2 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
#6 RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) IMPORTANT NOTES SCHOOL TOKENS p.9 0.030769 (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 Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) OVERVIEW AND GOAL p.1 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
#8 RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW p.4 0.030622 (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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) ABILITY ICONOGRAPHY p.12 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) DIVE p.6 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Finspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 54) SAMPLE DIVE TURN p.7 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 218 ms · first delta 6793 ms · total 7198 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 218 ms · ask 6970 ms · gateway work 7198 ms · total 7198 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
2349
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
55
tok/sec
148.2 tok/sec — 55 output tokens in 0.371 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 5), 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.