You asked
How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Wavelengthbg-262543-en-1e
1. Close the screen using the plastic handle until it is entirely closed and clicks into place [1][2]. 2. Draw one wavelength card from the deck and choose a side [1][2]. 3. Place the card in the slot in front of the device with the chosen side facing forward and read the text aloud so both teams can hear [2]. 4. Rotate the wheel using your fingers along the wavy edges until the target is in a completely random position while the screen is closed [2]. 5. Open the screen completely using the plastic handle [3]. 6. Give a clue that is conceptually located on the spectrum between the two concepts on the card [4][3][2]. The clue should be 5 words or less, use no numbers, no synonyms, no qualifiers (like "very"), and use proper nouns instead of "someone who," "a place where," or "a thing that" [1]. 7. Close the screen completely [1][3]. 8. Turn the box to face your team [3]. 9. The Psychic's team discusses the clue and turns the dial to where they think the target is located [5][4][1][6][7]. 10. The other team guesses LEFT or RIGHT [5][1]. 11. The Psychic opens the screen to reveal the target and points are given [5][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 196 ms · ask 5317 ms · total 5523 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 5523 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 15, "score": 0.048139, "snippet": "PSYCHIC PHASE : Current team's Psychic gives clue TEAM PHASE : Psychic's team discusses and turns dial LEFT/RIGHT PHASE : Other team guesses left/right SCORING : Psychic reveals target and points are given After Scoring, the other team begins their round UNLESS the catch up rule is triggered , detai", "headingPath": "HOW THE GAME PROGRESSES · AN IMPORTANT CATCH UP RULE · WINNING", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Each round begins with the current team's Psychic spinning the wheel to randomize the target's location, drawing a wavelength card, and giving a clue ON THE SPECTRUM between the two concepts on the card. The Psychic should do all of this secretly, so players on both teams can't see where the target ", "headingPath": "PSYCHIC PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Open the screen : Using the plastic handle, open the screen and look at where the target is located. You should always open the screen COMPLETELY, even if you can see the target with it partially open: otherwise, players watching you will be able to guess the general target location. Very infrequent", "headingPath": "PSYCHIC PHASE · Now the Psychic stops communicating ENTIRELY!", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "In Wavelength, BOTH teams always have a chance to score points from a clue. After the Psychic's team has finalized their dial position, the other team gets to guess whether the center of the target (the 4 point wedge) is to the left or right of the dial. This discussion should be fairly brief, since", "headingPath": "LEFT/RIGHT PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Once both teams have finalized their guesses, it's time for the most exciting part of the game: THE REVEAL. The Psychic opens the screen to reveal the target. Their team scores points if the dial is within the colored target area, as listed on the colored wedges (2-4 points). If the dial is ever on ", "headingPath": "SCORING PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 24, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Convey a single thought Don't invent something Be on topic No synonyms No numbers 5 words or less No qualifiers, like 'very,' 'kind of,' or 'after three drinks' Use proper nouns, not 'Someone who…' or 'A place where…' or 'A thing that…' Psychic player prepares and gives a clue: Close the screen Draw", "headingPath": "CLUE GIVING RULES · CLUE GIVING SUGGESTIONS · ROUND GUIDE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.030018, "snippet": "Wavelength is a social guessing game where two teams compete to read each other's minds. Teams take turns rotating a dial to where they think a target is located along a spectrum that's hidden behind a screen. One player from the active team-the Psychic-knows where the target is, but can only give a", "headingPath": "GAME SUMMARY · SETUP NOTES", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Turn the red dial as close to the center of the colored target as you can.", "headingPath": "Your team's goal", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 24, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CLUE GIVING RULES · CLUE GIVING SUGGESTIONS · ROUND GUIDE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PSYCHIC PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PSYCHIC PHASE · Now the Psychic stops communicating ENTIRELY!", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME SUMMARY · SETUP NOTES", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "HOW THE GAME PROGRESSES · AN IMPORTANT CATCH UP RULE · WINNING", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Now it's up to the Psychic's team to discuss the clue and decide where to turn the dial", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Your team's goal", "sharpsignalDocId": 135}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 135 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 135 boosted
- 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
- Nov 2, 2026 09:54
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 Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | HOW THE GAME PROGRESSES · AN IMPORTANT CATCH UP RULE · WINNING | p.15 | 0.048139 (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 Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | PSYCHIC PHASE | p.10 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | PSYCHIC PHASE · Now the Psychic stops communicating ENTIRELY! | p.11 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | LEFT/RIGHT PHASE | p.13 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | SCORING PHASE | p.14 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | CLUE GIVING RULES · CLUE GIVING SUGGESTIONS · ROUND GUIDE | p.24 | 0.030303 (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 Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | GAME SUMMARY · SETUP NOTES | p.9 | 0.030018 (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 Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | Your team's goal | p.2 | 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)) | 74 |
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 Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | CLUE GIVING RULES · CLUE GIVING SUGGESTIONS · ROUND GUIDE | p.24 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | PSYCHIC PHASE | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | PSYCHIC PHASE · Now the Psychic stops communicating ENTIRELY! | p.11 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | GAME SUMMARY · SETUP NOTES | p.9 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | HOW THE GAME PROGRESSES · AN IMPORTANT CATCH UP RULE · WINNING | p.15 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | Now it's up to the Psychic's team to discuss the clue and decide where to turn the dial | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
| [7] | RULEBOOK Wavelength — Rulebook (corpus doc 135) | Your team's goal | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 196 ms · first delta 3280 ms · total 5523 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 196 ms · ask 5317 ms · gateway work 5523 ms · total 5523 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2026
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 303
- tok/sec
- 137.9 tok/sec — 303 output tokens in 2.198 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 22s 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 57), 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.