Ruling — The Isle of Cats

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What does this expansion add?

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Asked with: The Isle of Catsbg-281259-en-1e · The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beastsbg-338020-en-1e

The Isle of Cats Kittens + Beasts expansion consists of three new expansion modules and one new lesson module:[1]

* **Kittens module:** Adds more importance to being the fastest player each day and introduces new options for players without adding much complexity.[1]

* **Beasts module:** Provides players with more options at the start of the game while they are still searching for lesson cards.[1] It allows players to rescue beasts from the island on the first day.[2]

* **Events module:** Adds new challenges, changes rules, and has a big impact on strategies.[1] It comes into play during the fill the fields stage of the game.[3]

* **Lesson module:** A new lesson module is included.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook · p.3 · MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …

[2] RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook · p.6 · EXAMPLE · SVBAE NT' · GLOBAL SETUP · GAMEPLAY · DAY |: FILL THE FIELDS · DAY |: PHASE 4: RESCUING CATS · …

[3] RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook · p.10 · '= GAMEPLAY · FILL THE FIELDS · EXAMPLE | · SCORING · ROYAL RATS · SEMI-PERMANENT TOKENS

🔧 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 57 ms · ask 2801 ms · total 2859 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 2859 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 3, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "When reading these rules, please keep in mind that all of the standard game rules still apply. Unless specifically stated, none of these modules change any existing rules, they only add new rules on top. The Isle of Cats Kittens + Beasts expansion consists of 3 new expansion modules that can be play", "headingPath": "MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 890}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032522, "snippet": "If you own any expansions you can find some additional setup information on page 23.", "headingPath": "EXPANSIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.031281, "snippet": "Island. Place the island in the centre of the play area ( side up); the areas on either side of the island are known as the fields. Vesh's Boat. Place Vesh's boat on space 5 of the day tracker. Common Treasure. Place the common treasure tiles below the island. Use 5 of each tile for I-player. Use 5 ", "headingPath": "GLOBAL SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030159, "snippet": "You are a citizen of Squall's End and are on a rescue mission to save as many cats as possible before Vesh arrives. You must explore the island, rescue cats, gather ancient treasures and find a way to fit them all onto your boat before returning safely to Squall's End. As you explore the island, you", "headingPath": "GAME PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.030018, "snippet": "This section highlights all of the changes to the rules that are required to play with only a single player. You should only read these rules once you have learned the normal rules for the expansion. All of the normal rules apply unless stated otherwise. The kitten and beast modules add more decisio", "headingPath": "SOLO · DIFFICULTY · KITTENS · SCORING · BEASTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 890}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.02971, "snippet": "The first time you play, you will need to put some of the cat and treasure tiles into the discovery bag. Place the following in the discovery bag: All blue, green, orange, red and purple cat tiles. All rare treasure tiles. Do not put the Oshax tiles or the common treasure tiles in the discovery bag.", "headingPath": "BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.028898, "snippet": "Each player receives: I random boat side up). I permanent basket (green side up). B Randomly decide who goes first. Then, beginning with that person, go around the table and have each player: Choose a colour by taking their favourite cat figure from the supply. Place their chosen cat figure on the i", "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.027972, "snippet": "If you prefer watching videos to reading rulebooks, you can find a video explaining how to play this game on our website: www.thecityofkings.com/theisleofcats/ IFISH 5FISH 42 fish tokens 20 x 1 fish and 22 x 5 fish 6 oshax I discovery bag 5 solo colour cards 4 colour cards These can be given to anyo", "headingPath": "HOW TO PLAY VIDEO", "sharpsignalDocId": 106}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 890}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EXAMPLE · SVBAE NT' · GLOBAL SETUP · GAMEPLAY · DAY |: FILL THE FIELDS · DAY |: PHASE 4: RESCUING CATS · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 890}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "'= GAMEPLAY · FILL THE FIELDS · EXAMPLE | · SCORING · ROYAL RATS · SEMI-PERMANENT TOKENS", "sharpsignalDocId": 890}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 106 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 106 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.90517 of 580 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
#1	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …	p.3	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
#2	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	EXPANSIONS	p.4	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))	84
#3	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	GLOBAL SETUP	p.4	0.031281 (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 The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	GAME PLAY	p.2	0.030159 (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 The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	SOLO · DIFFICULTY · KITTENS · SCORING · BEASTS	p.12	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	BEFORE YOUR FIRST GAME	p.5	0.02971 (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 The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	PLAYER SETUP	p.4	0.028898 (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 The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	HOW TO PLAY VIDEO	p.3	0.027972 (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 31 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
#1	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	EXPANSIONS	p.4	#2	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 + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	SOLO · DIFFICULTY · KITTENS · SCORING · BEASTS	p.12	#5	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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	'= GAMEPLAY · FILL THE FIELDS · EXAMPLE \| · SCORING · ROYAL RATS · SEMI-PERMANENT TOKENS	p.10	#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
#4	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	PLAYER SETUP	p.5	#25	0.011765 (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 The Isle of Cats — Rulebook (corpus doc 106)	WEBSITE	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	EXAMPLE · SVBAE NT' · GLOBAL SETUP · GAMEPLAY · DAY \|: FILL THE FIELDS · DAY \|: PHASE 4: RESCUING CATS · …	p.6	#14	0.014925 (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 The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	COMPONENTS · HOW TO PLAY VIDEO	p.2	#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 The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …	p.3	#1	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 + full-text	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	MODULES · COMPLEXITY: EASY · BEASTS MODULE COMPLEXITY: MEDIUM · COMPLEXITY: HARD · BEFORE YOUR FIRST GHME · COMBINING MOOULES · …	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	EXAMPLE · SVBAE NT' · GLOBAL SETUP · GAMEPLAY · DAY \|: FILL THE FIELDS · DAY \|: PHASE 4: RESCUING CATS · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Isle of Cats: Kittens + Beasts — Rulebook (corpus doc 890)	'= GAMEPLAY · FILL THE FIELDS · EXAMPLE \| · SCORING · ROYAL RATS · SEMI-PERMANENT TOKENS	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 57 ms · first delta 1684 ms · total 2859 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 57 ms · ask 2801 ms · gateway work 2859 ms · total 2859 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2240
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 158
tok/sec: 138.1 tok/sec — 158 output tokens in 1.144 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 32s 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 36), 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.