Ruling — Bruxelles 1893

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How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Bruxelles 1893bg-144592-en-1e

Each round comprises four phases: the Stock Exchange phase, the Action phase, the Resolution of the Turn phase, and End of Turn phase.[1] During the Action phase, players take turns in clockwise order, beginning with the first player.[1]

To take a turn during the Action phase:

1. Choose an action from the available area of the Art Nouveau board or from one of the four actions on the Brussels board.[1]

2. If choosing an action on the Art Nouveau board, play an Assistant pawn and place a bid in Belgian francs (BF) to participate in an auction.[2]

3. If performing a specific Brussels board action, follow its specific rules:

* **Sale Action**: Move the Workshop cursor horizontally and/or vertically a number of spaces equal to the total number of works held in front of you;[3] choose a Work of Art tile whose color is different from the two visible in the shop;[3] receive the money and VPs indicated by the cursor's dot; and place the sold tile in the store.[3]

* **Royal Theater Action**: Choose a Public Figure card from the four on display, paying the required BF (the first is free, others cost 1, 2, or 3 BF);[4] either discard the card or keep it rotated 90° clockwise to use its effect;[4] and shift the remaining cards in the display to the right.[4]

* **Materials Action**: Take two noble materials of your choice (wood, stone, and/or iron), provided they are available in the general supply.[4]

* **Grand Plaza Action**: Activate upright Public Figure cards from those in front of you, up to a number determined by your influence on the Royal Palace track, and rotate them 90° clockwise.[5]

4. A player may pass if they cannot or do not want to perform an action.[5] The first player to pass takes the current year's Exhibition tile and receives specific BF income;[5] other players continue playing until they also pass.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.4 · CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.3 · CONCEPT OF THE GAME

[3] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.5 · Sale Action

[4] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.6 · Royal Theater Action · Two options are then available to him: · Materials Action · Compass rules

[5] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.7 · Grand Plaza Action

🔧 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 260 ms · ask 7558 ms · total 7827 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7827 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 559 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 559 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 8, 2026 01:06

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. How much wider that pool was is set gateway-side and is NOT REPORTED for this ruling, and neither are the answerer's final rows — so rulesage has nothing of its own to show beside these.

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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Royal Theater Action · Two options are then available to him: · Materials Action · Compass rules	p.6	0.048412 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	C RESOLUTION OF THE TURN PHASE · 1. Bids on the Art Nouveau board · 2. Designation of the new first player · 3. Using the Bonus cards · There are 4 types of Bonus card:	p.8	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Grand Plaza Action	p.7	0.046432 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	5. Majority on the Brussels board	p.10	0.031746 (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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	HOW TO PLAY · Workshop Action	p.5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Tucking the card under his personal board	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	END OF THE GAME	p.10	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

the passages the answerer read: NOT RECORDED for this ruling. Any of three things leaves this empty, and they are all different from the answerer having had nothing to read: this ask may never have reached a gateway at all; a multi-book ask keeps each book's own context on that book's own page rather than here; or the gateway build that answered may simply not report it. What this NEVER means is that the answerer read nothing — an answer was composed from passages either way, and their absence here is a gap in what we were told, not in what it read.

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Sale Action	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Royal Theater Action · Two options are then available to him: · Materials Action · Compass rules	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Grand Plaza Action	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 260 ms · first delta 4584 ms · total 7827 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 260 ms · ask 7558 ms · gateway work 7827 ms · total 7827 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4288
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 433
tok/sec: 135.9 tok/sec — 433 output tokens in 3.186 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s 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 491), 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.