Ruling — 7 Wonders (2nd Edition)

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How do I play?

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Asked with: 7 Wonders (2nd Edition)bg-316377-en-2e

1. Separate the Age cards into three decks: Age I, Age II, and Age III.[1]

2. Each player randomly takes a Wonder Board, picking their preferred side (Day or Night).[1]

3. For each Age, sort the cards by the minimum number of players required and keep only the cards with a number less than or equal to the number of players.[1]

4. In the Age III deck, take all the Purple cards, randomly draw as many cards from these as the number of players +2, and add them to the other Age III cards.[1]

5. Shuffle each deck of Age cards and put them face down in the middle of the table.[1]

6. Take 3 Coins (worth 1) and place them on your Wonder board.[1]

7. Place leftover Coins and all Military Conflict tokens in the middle of the table to create reserves.[1]

8. At the start of each Age, randomly deal 7 cards to each player face down to make a starting hand.[2]

9. Each Age consists of 6 turns where players play simultaneously.[2]

10. A turn follows these three stages in order:

a. Choose 1 card from your hand and place it face down in front of you, setting remaining cards aside.[3]

b. When everyone has chosen a card, play them simultaneously to complete one single action: Construct the Building on your card, Construct a stage of your Wonder, or Sell the card.[4]

c. When all players have completed their action, take the cards you did not choose and give them to the neighbor on your left (during Ages I and III) or to the neighbor on your right (during Age II), receiving a new hand from that neighbor.[5]

11. At the start of the sixth and last turn of each Age, receive a hand of 2 cards from your neighbor, choose 1, and discard the other face down.[6]

12. Play the sixth and last card as normal and continue to the Resolution of Military Conflicts.[6]

13. At the end of each Age, head to war with your two neighbors.[7]

14. The game plays over three successive rounds (Age I, Age II, then Age III).[8]

15. At the close of 3 Ages, count total victory points from your City, Wonder, military prowess, and Treasure; the player with the highest score wins.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · OVERVIEW OF AN AGE

[3] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · 1. CHOOSE A CARD

[4] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · 2. PLAY THIS CARD

[5] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 · 3. PASS YOUR HAND

[6] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 · SIXTH AND LAST TURN

[7] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.1 · OVERVIEW OF THE GAME

[8] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · GAMEPLAY

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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 88 ms · ask 5346 ms · total 5440 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5440 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 67 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 67 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 0.90768 of 1679 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 10:23

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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	2. PLAY THIS CARD	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF AN AGE	p.4	0.047371 (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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF THE GAME	p.1	0.046898 (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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	0.046176 (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))	160
#5	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	1. CHOOSE A CARD	p.4	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))	212
#6	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	3. PASS YOUR HAND	p.5	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
#7	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	B. Construct a stage of your Wonder	p.4	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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	SIXTH AND LAST TURN	p.5	0.029469 (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 45 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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	2. PLAY THIS CARD	p.4	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	1. CHOOSE A CARD	p.4	#5	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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	3. PASS YOUR HAND	p.5	#6	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	#4	0.046176 (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
#5	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	SETUP	p.3	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	SIXTH AND LAST TURN	p.5	#8	0.029469 (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
#7	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF THE GAME	p.1	#3	0.046898 (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 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF AN AGE	p.4	#2	0.047371 (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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF AN AGE	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	1. CHOOSE A CARD	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	2. PLAY THIS CARD	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	3. PASS YOUR HAND	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	SIXTH AND LAST TURN	p.5	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	OVERVIEW OF THE GAME	p.1	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders (2nd Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 67)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 88 ms · first delta 1666 ms · total 5440 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 5346 ms · gateway work 5440 ms · total 5440 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1277
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 525
tok/sec: 140.1 tok/sec — 525 output tokens in 3.746 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 36s 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 12), 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.