You asked
How does the Association board work?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Ark Novabg-342942-en-1e
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live,vps
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 81 ms · ask 6336 ms · total 6418 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 6418 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 15, "score": 0.048139, "snippet": "Conservation project work : You may either support a conservation project already in play or play a Conservation Project card from your hand and support it immediately. If you bring a new Conservation Project card into play, place it above the Association board on the leftmost space. If there is alr", "headingPath": "The Association Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The Association board is divided into 2 areas. In the blue area are the tasks that you can perform using your association workers. If you have not upgraded the Association action, you can only perform exactly 1 of these tasks. In the pink area, after upgrading your Association action card, you can g", "headingPath": "The Association Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "To carry out an association task, you need at least 1 active association worker on the notepad of your zoo map. Place this worker on the Association board on the task you want to perform. If 1 of your association workers is already on this task, you must instead place 2 to perform this task. If 3 of", "headingPath": "Perform exactly one association task.", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "You decide to release your African Spurred Tortoise into the Serengeti National Park. The tortoise needs a 3-space enclosure and thus fulfills the middle condition, which is still unclaimed. You decide to mark the remaining space on the Conservation Project card with your player token from the '12 m", "headingPath": "Example: Releasing an animal · Example: Association tasks with side II · ASSOCIATION", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "11 → Special Enclosures ............................ 12 • Association action ............................... 14 → The Association Board ........................ 14 → Conservation Projects layout .................. 15 • Sponsors action ................................. 17 → Sponsor cards Layout .....", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "If you have more cards in your hand than your hand limit allows, discard any surplus cards of your choice from your hand to the discard pile. Normally your hand limit is 3, but a particular university allows you to hold 5 ( If you have Multiplier, Venom, and/or Constriction tokens on your Action car", "headingPath": "1. Hand card limit : · 2. Tokens on Action cards : · 3. Association board : · 5. Take income :", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "5 Place the Association board next to the game board, leaving enough room for one row of cards above and one row of cards below the board. 5a Place 1 partner zoo of each continent and 1 university kind on the spaces provided on the Association board. of each Shuffle the Base Conservation Project car", "headingPath": "Personal Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The game board has a display of 6 cards (see B in the example: Taking cards using side II below). Next to these cards is the Reputation track, where you keep track of the reputation of your zoo (see A in the example: Taking cards using side II below). Whenever you are allowed to increase the reputat", "headingPath": "The Reputation Track and the Display", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The Association Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Perform exactly one association task.", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The various tasks are:", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The Association Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gameplay / Breaks · Difficulty Levels / Solo Challenge", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 247 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 247 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)
- answer fence
- passed — letter density 0.91941 of 1824 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 12, 2026 07:08
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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | p.14 | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Perform exactly one association task. | p.14 | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Example: Releasing an animal · Example: Association tasks with side II · ASSOCIATION | p.16 | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | p.3 | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | 1. Hand card limit : · 2. Tokens on Action cards : · 3. Association board : · 5. Take income : | p.18 | 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Personal Setup | p.5 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Reputation Track and the Display | p.9 | 0.029412 (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 44 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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | p.14 | #2 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Perform exactly one association task. | p.14 | #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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | 1. Hand card limit : · 2. Tokens on Action cards : · 3. Association board : · 5. Take income : | p.18 | #6 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Break Track | p.7 | #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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Gameplay / Breaks · Difficulty Levels / Solo Challenge | p.20 | #16 | 0.013158 (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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The various tasks are: | p.14 | #11 | 0.014085 (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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Personal Setup | p.5 | #7 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | p.15 | #1 | 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)) | vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
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 Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Perform exactly one association task. | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The various tasks are: | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | The Association Board | p.15 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247) | Gameplay / Breaks · Difficulty Levels / Solo Challenge | p.20 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 81 ms · first delta 2697 ms · total 6418 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 81 ms · ask 6336 ms · gateway work 6418 ms · total 6418 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3513
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 502
- tok/sec
- 137.4 tok/sec — 502 output tokens in 3.654 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 173), 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.