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How are points scored at the obelisks?

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The scoring at the obelisks involves both immediate points and end-of-game assessments:

**Immediate Scoring**

* Each stone delivered is placed on a space matching its color.[1]

* When the third stone of any given color is delivered, those stones are immediately assessed for value.[1]

* These three stones are stacked into a tower on the free space with the highest point value.[2][1]

* The owner of these stones receives the points immediately.[2][1]

**End of Game Scoring**

* Individual stones that do not make it into an obelisk earn 1 point each at the end of the game.[1]

* Players add up points based on the height of their obelisks (the towers built from their stones):[3]

* **Two-person game:** The tallest obelisk gets 10 points, and the second-tallest gets 1 point.[3]

* **Three-person game:** The tallest obelisk gets 12 points, the second-tallest gets 6 points, and the third-tallest gets 1 point.[3]

* **Four-person game:** The tallest obelisk gets 15 points, the second-tallest gets 10 points, the third-tallest gets 5 points, and the fourth-tallest gets 1 point.[3]

* To participate in this point assessment, a player must have delivered at least 1 stone to the obelisks.[4]

* In the event of a tie in obelisk height:

* The winner is the player with the greater number of stones on their supply sled token.[5]

* If there is still a tie, the tied players share first place.[5]

* For other ties, the total points are divided among the number of tied players, and each player receives that total rounded down to the nearest whole number.[4]

**Additional Rules**

* Under the "Wrath of the Pharaoh" variant, a player must have delivered at least 1 stone to the obelisks (as well as the pyramid, temple, and burial chamber) by the end of the game, or they must have 5 points deducted from their score.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook · p.10 · B) Obelisks

[2] RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook · p.11 · B) Obelisks · Variant: WRATH OF THE PHARAOH

[3] RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook · p.8 · A) Burial Chamber · A) Obelisks · The following point assessment applies to a two-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a three-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a four-person game:

[4] RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook · p.8 · Important:

[5] RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook · p.5 · Prepare FOR THE NEXT ROUND · END OF GAME · Final point assessment (scoring) · Obelisks' heading . · The player with the most points is the winner .

🔧 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 93 ms · ask 5407 ms · total 5502 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5502 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 633 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 633 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 0.89701 of 1505 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 12:20

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 Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Prepare FOR THE NEXT ROUND · END OF GAME · Final point assessment (scoring) · Obelisks' heading . · The player with the most points is the winner .	p.5	0.048652 (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 Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks · Variant: WRATH OF THE PHARAOH	p.11	0.047379 (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 Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Important:	p.8	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
#4	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks	p.10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	A) Burial Chamber · A) Obelisks · The following point assessment applies to a two-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a three-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a four-person game:	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
#6	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Temple · B) Burial Chamber · Important:	p.10	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
#7	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	GAME OBJECTIVE · GAME MATERIALS	p.2	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 Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Sail 1 ship to a site · Play 1 blue market card · END OF ROUND	p.5	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))	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 20 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 Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Important:	p.8	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks · Variant: WRATH OF THE PHARAOH	p.11	#2	0.047379 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Prepare FOR THE NEXT ROUND · END OF GAME · Final point assessment (scoring) · Obelisks' heading . · The player with the most points is the winner .	p.5	#1	0.048652 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	GAME OBJECTIVE · GAME MATERIALS	p.2	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Temple · B) Burial Chamber · Important:	p.10	#6	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
#6	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Sail 1 ship to a site · Play 1 blue market card · END OF ROUND	p.5	#8	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
#7	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks	p.10	#4	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
#8	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	A) Burial Chamber · A) Obelisks · The following point assessment applies to a two-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a three-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a four-person game:	p.8	#5	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks	p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	B) Obelisks · Variant: WRATH OF THE PHARAOH	p.11	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	A) Burial Chamber · A) Obelisks · The following point assessment applies to a two-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a three-person game: · The following point assessment applies to a four-person game:	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Important:	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Imhotep — Rulebook (corpus doc 633)	Prepare FOR THE NEXT ROUND · END OF GAME · Final point assessment (scoring) · Obelisks' heading . · The player with the most points is the winner .	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 1933 ms · total 5502 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 93 ms · ask 5407 ms · gateway work 5502 ms · total 5502 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2996
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 491
tok/sec: 140.2 tok/sec — 491 output tokens in 3.503 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 566), 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.