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How do I take my turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Spirit Islandbg-162886-en-1e
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🔧 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 75 ms · ask 4783 ms · total 4860 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 4860 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 6, "score": 0.048139, "snippet": "Each player takes all Spirit Presence and Single-Turn Effect Markers of one color, then chooses a Spirit by taking a Spirit Panel and its four Unique Power Cards, which is their starting hand. New players should choose a low-complexity Spirit and take its Power Progression Card, as described on page", "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.047183, "snippet": "You suddenly realize that for the past 4 turns you've been using a Power Card on lands it can't actually target. What to do? The answer is: don't sweat it. Especially on your first play or two, you'll likely make minor mistakes here and there. They're unlikely to break anything: the game will just b", "headingPath": "WHOOPS!", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.044136, "snippet": "As you play Power Cards, put the required Energy on top of them. This will help you remember to pay for them. When you resolve a Power Card, you can push it forward or turn it sideways to note that it has been used. Don't discard it until end of turn, because you may be making use of its Elements fo", "headingPath": "STREAMLINING GAMEPLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "This is the wrap-up phase at the end of each turn. Discard: Players discard all Power Cards played this turn into their personal discard piles. Damage and Elements Clear: All Elements go away. All Damage done during the turn goes away; if you turned any pieces on their sides to note partial Damage, ", "headingPath": "TIME PASSES", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Each turn has the following phases: Spirit Phase Fast Power Phase Invader Phase Slow Power Phase Time Passes Players play simultaneously within each phase, conferring as they wish. Table talk is not just allowed, it's likely necessary for victory!", "headingPath": "INVADERS' STARTING ACTION", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Each Spirit does three things, in the following order: Grow: Choose one option (unless stated otherwise) next to 'Growth' at the upper-right of the Spirit Panel. Each section is a single choice. Y ou must do everything shown, but may choose the order. (For more on Growth options, see page 14.) Gain ", "headingPath": "SPIRIT PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 17, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "A few Powers have temporary effects on a land (such as 'Invaders skip all Actions'). There are Reminder Tokens you can use to mark those lands for the turn if you want; just remember to remove them at the end of the turn! REMINDER TOKENS", "headingPath": "SINGLE-TURN EFFECTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.029462, "snippet": "Spirit Name Art: An image of this Spirit. Backstory: The story and history of the Spirit. Setup: Inital Presence placement and any special instructions. Play Style/Complexity: A brief description of the Spirit's strategy and comparison of its strengths and weaknesses, as well as a summary of Powers.", "headingPath": "ANATOMY OF A SPIRIT PANEL", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SPIRIT PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "TIME PASSES", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 58 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 58 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 0.93597 of 1062 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 12, 2026 23:46
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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | PLAYER SETUP | p.6 | 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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | WHOOPS! | p.20 | 0.047183 (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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | STREAMLINING GAMEPLAY | p.20 | 0.044136 (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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | TIME PASSES | p.10 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | INVADERS' STARTING ACTION | p.8 | 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)) | 247 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | SPIRIT PHASE | p.8 | 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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | SINGLE-TURN EFFECTS | p.17 | 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)) | 237 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | ANATOMY OF A SPIRIT PANEL | p.14 | 0.029462 (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 — 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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | TIME PASSES | p.10 | #4 | 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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | SPIRIT PHASE | p.8 | #6 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | ELEMENTAL THRESHOLDS | p.14 | #36 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | GENERAL PRINCIPLE: ONE LAND! ONE TURN! ONE USE! | p.17 | #24 | 0.012987 (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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | GLOSSARY/INDEX | p.30 | #18 | 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)) | full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | DEFEND | p.18 | #50 | 0.009524 (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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | PLAYER SETUP | p.6 | #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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | SINGLE-TURN EFFECTS | p.17 | #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 |
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 Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | SPIRIT PHASE | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58) | TIME PASSES | p.10 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 75 ms · first delta 2933 ms · total 4860 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 75 ms · ask 4783 ms · gateway work 4860 ms · total 4860 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 1930
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 285
- tok/sec
- 150.0 tok/sec — 285 output tokens in 1.900 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s 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 7), 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.