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What does this expansion add?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Alchemistsbg-161970-en-1e · Alchemists: The King's Golembg-204650-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 88 ms · ask 5563 ms · total 5653 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 5653 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 7, "score": 0.032522, "snippet": "The extension board sits next to the main game board and adds two new action spaces. The under-the-counter artifact board covers the Buy Artifact space on the original board. The golem research board can go wherever you have room. Each player should put one of his or her flasks on the lowest progres", "headingPath": "Setup\b · Artifacts · Conference Tiles · Favor Cards · Tokens · The Royal Encyclopedia · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.031099, "snippet": "5 Immediate effect: Gain 5 points of reputation. Amulet of Rhetoric Immediate effect: Draw 7 ingredients. You no longer draw ingredients when choosing play order. Witch’ s Trunk When you publish or endorse a theory, gain 2 additional points of reputation. Seal of Authority During the exhibition: Set", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.030018, "snippet": "Nothing says 'success' like a shelf full of expensive hardware. When you buy an artifact, take one of the cards in the artifact row and pay the cost in the upper left corner. Keep your artifacts on the table in front of you where everyone can see them. COST EFFECT Early artifacts have effects that l", "headingPath": "Buy Artifact", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.029206, "snippet": "Mostly, alchemists try to impress each other, but once in a while it can be satisfying to demonstrate our skills to the masses. USE THE OTHER SIDE FOR A FOUR-PLAYER GAME. When setting up for the final round, place the exhibition board over the Test on Student and Drink Potion action spaces. They wil", "headingPath": "Exhibition · New Artifact Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.028783, "snippet": "I the undersigned adventurer assert and affirm that I have been informed of the terms under which this potion is sold, that I agree to such terms, and that the terms are as follows: All money shall be paid in advance and in the event that a known side effect* accompanies the potion's declared effect", "headingPath": "Money-Back Guarantee and Terms of Sale", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.028205, "snippet": "Arrange them as shown. Each player puts one flask on the 10 space to mark initial reputation. Used only in the master variant. For the apprentice variant, leave these in the box. At the start of the game, launch the app, select the master or apprentice variant, and tap the button. The app will rando", "headingPath": "grants · reputation markers · alchemical tokens · Initializing the Card Reader · Starting Player Token", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.02781, "snippet": "After the first round, all actions are available and players have the full complement of action cubes. Hopefully, you learned something about the ingredients in the first round. Now it's time to put that knowledge to use. A speed potion for a swift attack, a splash of poison to eliminate an enemy ad", "headingPath": "Actions Available in the Second Round · Sell Potion", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.027425, "snippet": "The game is played in six rounds. At the beginning of each round, players choose their play order. Then players declare all their actions for the round. During the round, actions are evaluated in order, clockwise around the board. You start your day with a leisurely walk through the forest, looking ", "headingPath": "The Round · Choosing Play Order · Drawing Ingredients · Drawing Favor Cards · Favor Cards · Getting Nothing", "sharpsignalDocId": 325}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "About this Expansion\b · Use the Same App", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Components\b · Busy Days · Setup\b · Choosing Play Order\b", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup\b · Artifacts · Conference Tiles · Favor Cards · Tokens · The Royal Encyclopedia · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "But if the two ingredients do not animate the golem, you lose 2 points of reputation. · Setup Reminders · Expansion Cards · Startup Funding · A Game By Matúš Kotry · Printing Press and Encyclopedia Articles · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The Golem Project · Components\b · How to set up the boards\b", "sharpsignalDocId": 886}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 325 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 325 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 0.90303 of 990 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 12, 2026 18:58
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 |
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| #1 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Setup · Artifacts · Conference Tiles · Favor Cards · Tokens · The Royal Encyclopedia · … | p.7 | 0.032522 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | p.5 | 0.031099 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | Buy Artifact | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | Exhibition · New Artifact Cards | p.16 | 0.029206 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | Money-Back Guarantee and Terms of Sale | p.11 | 0.028783 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | grants · reputation markers · alchemical tokens · Initializing the Card Reader · Starting Player Token | p.7 | 0.028205 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | Actions Available in the Second Round · Sell Potion | p.11 | 0.02781 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | The Round · Choosing Play Order · Drawing Ingredients · Drawing Favor Cards · Favor Cards · Getting Nothing | p.8 | 0.027425 (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 80 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 — 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 |
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| #1 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | About this Expansion · Use the Same App | p.1 | #10 | 0.016393 (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 re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | But if the two ingredients do not animate the golem, you lose 2 points of reputation. · Setup Reminders · Expansion Cards · Startup Funding · A Game By Matúš Kotry · Printing Press and Encyclopedia Articles · … | p.12 | #11 | 0.015873 (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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | The Golem Project · Components · How to set up the boards | p.6 | #32 | 0.01087 (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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Setup | p.2 | #29 | 0.011236 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | Green Zone: 14 to 17 Points · Blue Zone: 18 or More Points · Red Zone: 6 Points or Less | p.12 | #69 | 0.007752 (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 Alchemists — Rulebook (corpus doc 325) | grants · reputation markers · alchemical tokens · Initializing the Card Reader · Starting Player Token | p.7 | #6 | 0.028205 (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 Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Components · Busy Days · Setup · Choosing Play Order | p.3 | #12 | 0.015625 (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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Setup · Artifacts · Conference Tiles · Favor Cards · Tokens · The Royal Encyclopedia · … | p.7 | #1 | 0.032522 (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 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 |
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| [1] | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | About this Expansion · Use the Same App | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Components · Busy Days · Setup · Choosing Play Order | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | Setup · Artifacts · Conference Tiles · Favor Cards · Tokens · The Royal Encyclopedia · … | p.7 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | But if the two ingredients do not animate the golem, you lose 2 points of reputation. · Setup Reminders · Expansion Cards · Startup Funding · A Game By Matúš Kotry · Printing Press and Encyclopedia Articles · … | p.12 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Alchemists: The King's Golem — Rulebook (corpus doc 886) | The Golem Project · Components · How to set up the boards | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 88 ms · first delta 3474 ms · total 5653 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 88 ms · ask 5563 ms · gateway work 5653 ms · total 5653 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4258
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 289
- tok/sec
- 137.3 tok/sec — 289 output tokens in 2.105 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 28s 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 253), 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.