Ruling — Architects of the West Kingdom

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A Black Market Reset in the base game is triggered when the Black Market fills up. With Works of Wonder in play, what new event can also trigger a Reset, and what extra steps involving the Princess, the Profiteer and the Contribution Card do I resolve during it?

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Asked with: Architects of the West Kingdombg-236457-en-1e · Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonderbg-327245-en-1e

A Black Market Reset can also be triggered if there are ever 5 resources placed on the Contribution Card.[1]

During a reset, the following steps involving the Princess, the Profiteer, and the Contribution Card must be resolved:

1. All players with 1 or more Workers at the Profiteer's location follow the steps outlined on the faceup Consequence Card (gaining a Debt or Influence, or Virtue loss, and all Workers at that location being sent to Prison).[1]

2. The player (or players) with the most Workers at the Princess's location gains the reward indicated on the faceup Consequence Card; if no players have any Workers at this location, no one gains the reward.[1]

3. All resources on the Contribution Card are moved to their corresponding Wonder Cards (Clay placed on the Clay Wonder Card, Wood on the Wood Card, etc).[1]

4. If a Wonder has already been built, its matching resource from Contributions should just be returned to the Main Supply at this point.[1]

5. Turn over the top Contribution Card, placing it 'Consequence' side faceup, on top of any previous Consequence Cards.[1]

6. Should there ever be no cards left in the Contribution Pile to turn over during a reset, shuffle all Contribution/Consequence Cards together and reset both piles as during Setup.[1]

7. Move the Profiteer and Princess to their new locations, as indicated on the faceup Consequence Card.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook · p.6 · black market reset

🔧 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 131 ms · ask 4836 ms · total 4968 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4968 ms
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base rulebook doc 303 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 0.93582 of 1153 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 23:51

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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	virtue track	p.17	0.032266 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Tax · Black Market Reset · quick standard setup · resources/cards per worker	p.20	0.031514 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Tax Stand · Black Market	p.12	0.029958 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	resources/cards per worker	p.22	0.029514 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	resources/cards per worker	p.23	0.029083 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	resources/cards per worker	p.21	0.028485 (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))	205
#7	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	playing the game · A note to new players:	p.7	0.028083 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Playing the Game · There are a few additional rules to observe during the game. Your opponent: · End of the Game · End-game Scoring	p.27	0.027526 (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 46 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 Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook (corpus doc 880)	black market reset	p.6	#9	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 Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook (corpus doc 880)	black market reset	p.6	#13	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
#3	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Tax · Black Market Reset · quick standard setup · resources/cards per worker	p.20	#2	0.031514 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	resources/cards per worker	p.21	#6	0.028485 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	playing the game · A note to new players:	p.7	#7	0.028083 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook (corpus doc 880)	School · black market reset - quick reference	p.16	#10	0.016129 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook (corpus doc 880)	visiting wonders · end-game scoring · solo variant: setup	p.8	#14	0.014706 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	virtue track	p.17	#1	0.032266 (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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder — Rulebook (corpus doc 880)	black market reset	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 131 ms · first delta 2618 ms · total 4968 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 131 ms · ask 4836 ms · gateway work 4968 ms · total 4968 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2766
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 317
tok/sec: 137.8 tok/sec — 317 output tokens in 2.300 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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 231), 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.