Ruling — Coup — RuleSage

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Coupbg-131357-en-1e

1. The game is played in turns in clockwise order [1]. 2. If a player starts their turn with 10 (or more) coins, they must launch a Coup as their only action [2]. 3. A player chooses one action only and may not pass [1]. 4. The player may choose any action they can afford [2]. 5. If the chosen action is a Character Action, the player must claim that the required character is one of their face down cards, either by telling the truth or bluffing [2]. 6. After the action is declared, other players are given an opportunity to challenge or counteract that action [1][3]. 7. If an action is not challenged or counteracted, it automatically succeeds [1]. 8. If a player is challenged, they must prove they have the required influence by showing the relevant character card; if they win the challenge, they return that card to the Court deck, re-shuffle, and take a random replacement card [3][4]. 9. If an action is successfully challenged, the entire action fails and any coins paid as the cost are returned to the player [5][1].

[1] RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook · p.2 · Goal · Influence · Game Play

[2] RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook · p.3 · Actions · General Actions · Income · Foreign Aid · Coup · Character Actions · …

[3] RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook · p.5 · Any action or counteraction using character influence can be challenged. · Whoever loses the challenge immediately loses an influence. · 3 players. Each start with 2 influence cards and 2 coins. The remaining 9 character cards make up the Court deck.

[4] RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook · p.5 ·

[5] RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook · p.5 ·

🔧 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 207 ms · ask 4612 ms · total 4829 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4829 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 180 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 180 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 09:50

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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)		p.5	0.047938 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Actions · General Actions · Income · Foreign Aid · Coup · Character Actions · …	p.3	0.047643 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)		p.5	0.047371 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	3 players. Each start with 2 influence cards and 2 coins. The remaining 9 character cards make up the Court deck. · After the first turn: · Continuing on...	p.6	0.046898 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Counteractions · Duke - Blocks Foreign Aid · Contessa - Blocks Assassination · Ambassador/Captain - Blocks Stealing · Captain - Steal · Ambassador - Exchange	p.4	0.046696 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Any action or counteraction using character influence can be challenged. · Whoever loses the challenge immediately loses an influence. · 3 players. Each start with 2 influence cards and 2 coins. The remaining 9 character cards make up the Court deck.	p.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))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Goal · Influence · Game Play	p.2	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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Like Coup? · The Resistance Universe · The Resistance	p.8	0.029851 (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 Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Goal · Influence · Game Play	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Actions · General Actions · Income · Foreign Aid · Coup · Character Actions · …	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)	Any action or counteraction using character influence can be challenged. · Whoever loses the challenge immediately loses an influence. · 3 players. Each start with 2 influence cards and 2 coins. The remaining 9 character cards make up the Court deck.	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Coup — Rulebook (corpus doc 180)		p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 207 ms · first delta 2904 ms · total 4829 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 207 ms · ask 4612 ms · gateway work 4829 ms · total 4829 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3203
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 250
tok/sec: 136.7 tok/sec — 250 output tokens in 1.829 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s 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 98), 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.