Ruling — 1960: The Making of the President

← 1960: The Making of the President

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With the exception of Turn 6 (The Debates) and Turn 9 (Election Day), a turn follows this sequence of play: [1]

1. Initiative Phase: Both players draw new cards (6 cards in turns 1-5; 7 cards in turns 7-8).[1] An Initiative Check is made to determine who chooses the start player for the turn.[1] The chosen start player plays first during each Activity Phase of that turn.[1]

2. Five Activity Phases: In each phase, both players play and resolve a single card, beginning with the start player.[2] During these phases, players have several options: [2]

* Play a Card as an Event: The event text is read and resolved; the card is then removed from the game (unless it is a Persistent Event).[2][3] Players may spend 2 momentum markers to prevent an opponent from triggering the event on the card.[3]

* Play a Card for Campaign Points: A player can split the card's CP freely between Increasing State Support (adding state support cubes to states in the currently occupied region) and Moving The Candidate Token (moving the token across regional boundaries).[3] The player performs one support check per CP, where each success allows placing one media support cube in any region's advertising box.[3] The card is discarded after all CP are spent.[3] Alternatively, a player can use CP to add issue support cubes to any issue (1 CP for the first cube, 2 CP for additional cubes).[3] The card is then discarded.[3]

* Play a Candidate Card: This can only be played if it is not exhausted.[3] It is resolved as if a normal card had been played for Campaign Points, but instead of being discarded, it is flipped to its exhausted side.[3] An opponent may spend one momentum marker to trigger the event on the card (unless preempted).[3]

* Additionally, players always collect the number of rest cubes indicated on their chosen card and place them in their Rest Cube Zone.[2]

3. Momentum Phase: [1]

4. Campaign Strategy Phase: Both players play cards to their Campaign Strategy Card Stack on the board.[4] On the first five turns, players must place exactly one card; on the last two turns, players must place exactly two cards.[4] Any remaining cards in hand after this must be immediately discarded.[4] During this phase, players also deposit their rest cubes from their Rest Cube Zone into the Political Capital Bag.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.6 · Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase

[2] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.6 · 2. Activity Phases · A) Play a Card as an Event

[3] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.20 · 1. Initiative Phase · 2. Five Activity Phases · Normal Event · Persistent Event · Player Aid · Play a Card for Campaign Points · …

[4] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.11 · Step 3 - Momentum Awards & Endorsements · Endorsements · Step 4 - Issue Support Decay · Step 1 - Campaign Strategy · The Debates - Turn 6

🔧 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 367 ms · ask 13370 ms · total 13751 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 13751 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 397 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 397 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 16:31

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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	2. Activity Phases · A) Play a Card as an Event	p.6	0.048916 (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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase	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
#3	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	C) Play a Candidate Card · Step 1 - Momentum Decay · Step 2 - Issue Shift	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
#4	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	1. Initiative Phase · 2. Five Activity Phases · Normal Event · Persistent Event · Player Aid · Play a Card for Campaign Points · …	p.20	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)		p.2	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	2. Determine Initiative · 3. Campaign Strategy · 4. Election Day Events · 5. Endorsements and Undecided Voters	p.13	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Step 3 - Momentum Awards & Endorsements · Endorsements · Step 4 - Issue Support Decay · Step 1 - Campaign Strategy · The Debates - Turn 6	p.11	0.030118 (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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	TURN 9: ELECTION DAY	p.20	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	2. Activity Phases · A) Play a Card as an Event	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	1. Initiative Phase · 2. Five Activity Phases · Normal Event · Persistent Event · Player Aid · Play a Card for Campaign Points · …	p.20	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Step 3 - Momentum Awards & Endorsements · Endorsements · Step 4 - Issue Support Decay · Step 1 - Campaign Strategy · The Debates - Turn 6	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 367 ms · first delta 9752 ms · total 13751 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 367 ms · ask 13370 ms · gateway work 13751 ms · total 13751 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3781
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 535
tok/sec: 135.3 tok/sec — 535 output tokens in 3.953 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s 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 326), 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.