Ruling — Awkward Guests: The Walton Case

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How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Awkward Guests: The Walton Casebg-188866-en-1e

A player's turn is divided into three phases: Inquiry Phase, Offer Phase, and Exchange Phase.[1]

1. **Inquiry Phase**: The active player must request information out loud regarding 2 different references, which can be 2 suspects, 2 rooms, or 1 suspect and 1 room.[1] The player can use inquiry tokens and the back of the rulebook to pinpoint these references.[1]

2. **Offer Phase**: Starting with the player sitting to the right of the active player and proceeding in an anti-clockwise order, non-active players choose cards from their hands to offer in exchange.[1] Each offered card must contain at least one of the requested references; cards that do not contain any requested references cannot be offered.[1]

3. **Exchange Phase**: Non-active players place their chosen cards face down on the table.[1] They then inform other players of the sum total of the information values of their cards and place an offer token on top with that number.[1] Once these decisions are declared, they are final and cannot be modified.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook · p.9 · Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase

🔧 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 214 ms · ask 5932 ms · total 6156 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6156 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 9, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "AWKWARD GUESTS: The Walton Case is played over several rounds, with each player taking a turn during the round and continuing on in an anticlockwise fashion. Each round starts with the starting player of that round. Each player's turn is divided in 3 phases: Inquiry Phase Offer Phase Exchange Phase ", "headingPath": "Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.045541, "snippet": "Let's take a close look at the cards you'll find in AWKWARD GUESTS: The Walton Case and how to jot down their information on your tracking sheet . These cards provide information regarding the suspects' alibis. The room where the MURDERER claims to have been at the time of the murder is the room the", "headingPath": "Game card types and how to use the tracking sheet · Alibi cards · Motive cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "All players still in the game must discard cards from their hands until their hands are each down to 3 cards. Discarded cards are placed FACE DOWN in the discard pile drawer, under the 'Classified Information' card. The starting player then passes the Mr. Walton standee to the player on their right.", "headingPath": "Discard Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Once all non-active players have made their offers, the active player decides with whom to exchange cards. They MAY EXCHANGE CARDS WITH AS MANY PLAYERS AS THEY PLEASE. The active player must give each chosen player cards from their hand (regardless of their references) that sum up to a total amount ", "headingPath": "Exchange Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "All players take their case solving token. They must decide if they want to place the token on the table showing its bright side to solve the mystery or the dark side to continue with the investigation. Once they have made up their mind, they will secretly place the token on the table, covering the ", "headingPath": "Solution Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "A 2 player game of AWKWARD GUESTS: The Walton Case is played the same way as the 3-8 player game with the following changes: When making inquiries, you must request information regarding 4 different references instead of 2. Possible references are the same: Mr. Walton's guests: Angelica Albinson , C", "headingPath": "Two-player game variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "AWKWARD GUESTS: The Walton Case is a game of logic and association. If you use your deductive skills, you will be able to extract more information from the cards as a whole than if you focus on them individually. The police, the coroner, the housekeeper and the rest of the Walton Mansion service sta", "headingPath": "Advice", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "8 Figure 4: Starting player standee. Figure 7: “Classified Information” card. Figure 6: Offer tokens. Game Objective Game Setup Figure 9: Discard pile drawer and its assembly instructions. Investigate clues and exchange information with your opponents to be the first player to solve the mystery of W", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase", "sharpsignalDocId": 503}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 503 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 503 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 11, 2026 00:22

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. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase	p.9	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Game card types and how to use the tracking sheet · Alibi cards · Motive cards	p.11	0.045541 (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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Discard Phase	p.10	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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Exchange Phase	p.9	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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Solution Phase	p.10	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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Two-player game variant	p.10	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 Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Advice	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
#8	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)		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

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.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 33 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase	p.9	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Solution Phase	p.10	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Game card types and how to use the tracking sheet · Alibi cards · Motive cards	p.11	#2	0.045541 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Index	p.3	#9	0.014493 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Advice	p.13	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)		p.8	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Discard Phase	p.10	#3	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)		p.2	#33	0.010753 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Awkward Guests: The Walton Case — Rulebook (corpus doc 503)	Turn Order and Overview · Inquiry Phase · OfferPhase	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 214 ms · first delta 4479 ms · total 6156 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 214 ms · ask 5932 ms · gateway work 6156 ms · total 6156 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3041
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 227
tok/sec: 139.1 tok/sec — 227 output tokens in 1.632 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 49s 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 434), 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.