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Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formulabg-281442-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 84 ms · ask 5153 ms · total 5240 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 5240 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 9, "score": 0.048172, "snippet": "During a round each player will perform a number of actions and react to actions performed by their opponents. After a player performs an action (and allows opponents time to resolve reactions), play passes to the next player. Each player turn consists of four phases: draft, action, opponent reactio", "headingPath": "Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.046875, "snippet": "To set up a game of T rismegistus, follow the steps below in order. If this is your first time playing T rismegistus, we recommend the following Introductory Game Setup. First, locate the following Laboratory boards: Claude Duval , Isaac Newton , Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa , and Roger Bacon . Alchem", "headingPath": "Game Setup · Introductory Game Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.045002, "snippet": "Rules of Play", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "In order to fill in the Alchemical Bowls on the main game board, follow these steps: Roll all the dice (preferably off-board), and place each in the Alchemical Bowl with the corresponding symbol. 13 If any of the bowls contain more than 5 dice, take all of the dice from that bowl and reroll them, as", "headingPath": "Rolling Dice and Filling Bowls", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Each player chooses a color and takes all discs in the chosen color. 16 The player who has last performed an alchemical transmutation (or a player chosen at random) becomes the starting player and places one of their larger discs on the 1st space of the Current Round Order track on the main game boa", "headingPath": "Player Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Each player should look at the dice available on the main game board and choose their Starting Experiment, Masterpiece Experiment, Publication, and Artifact at the same time. However, any player may request that (after all players have made their choices) Artifacts are placed on Laboratory boards in", "headingPath": "Important:", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "As part of your turn you are also allowed to perform any of these free actions (in any order and as many times as you wish, immediately before or after your main action, but not interrupting it): Purchase a Formula from your Laboratory board and place it in your Vault. Please refer to the Philosophe", "headingPath": "Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important:", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 22, "score": 0.029907, "snippet": "Botmegistus is a virtual opponent that allows a player to play T rismegistus solo, playing against the virtual opponent. 'You' refers to the lone human player throughout these rules. Set up the main game board, and your components, for a 2-player game, with you being first player; ~ Put the 4 specia", "headingPath": "Botmegistus, the solo opponent · Setup for solo play · Gameplay Changes", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}, {"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round", "sharpsignalDocId": 776}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 776 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 776 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 0.92563 of 1143 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 13, 2026 11:12
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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting | p.9 | 0.048172 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Game Setup · Introductory Game Setup | p.4 | 0.046875 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | p.1 | 0.045002 (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)) | 13 | |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Rolling Dice and Filling Bowls | p.8 | 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)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Player Setup | p.8 | 0.031746 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Important: | 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Free Actions · Opponent Reactions · Important: | p.12 | 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)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Botmegistus, the solo opponent · Setup for solo play · Gameplay Changes | p.22 | 0.029907 (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 41 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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting | p.9 | #1 | 0.048172 (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 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Botmegistus, the solo opponent · Setup for solo play · Gameplay Changes | p.22 | #8 | 0.029907 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Introductory Game Setup · General Setup | p.5 | #10 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Player Setup | p.8 | #5 | 0.031746 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round | p.13 | #9 | 0.029828 (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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Dice Setup | p.5 | #18 | 0.014493 (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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Advanced Planning Variant | p.22 | #12 | 0.028039 (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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | p.1 | #3 | 0.045002 (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
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 Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Round Structure and Player Actions · Player Turn · Draft · Important: · Drafting | p.9 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula — Rulebook (corpus doc 776) | Lab Cleanup · Important: · End of the Round | p.13 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 84 ms · first delta 2713 ms · total 5240 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 84 ms · ask 5153 ms · gateway work 5240 ms · total 5240 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3577
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 342
- tok/sec
- 138.1 tok/sec — 342 output tokens in 2.476 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 7s 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 712), 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.