Ruling — A Feast for Odin

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The game is played over either 6 rounds (short game) or 7 rounds (long game).[1][2] Each round consists of the following 12 phases, which are played in this order: [1]

1. A New Viking: Each player receives a new Viking, including the first round.[1]

2. Harvest: Players receive crops based on specific notes on their home board (e.g., receiving peas, beans, flax, and grain depending on the number provided).[3][1]

3. Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver: In rounds where an exploration board should be turned (rounds 2-5 for short games; rounds 3-6 for long games), players place 2 silver on each unclaimed exploration board not being turned.[3][1] When a board is turned, the silver on it is returned to the general supply.[3]

During the game:

* Each round, you place your Vikings on the spaces of the action board and take the chosen actions immediately.[4] Because each action space can only be occupied once per round, players may get in each other's way.[4]

* You can place tiles, ore tokens, and silver coins from your supply onto your home board at any time, but once placed, they cannot be taken back.[4]

* Your goal is to cover the spaces in the placement area of your home board with green and blue goods tiles; gaps can be filled with ore and silver.[4]

* Goods tiles are obtained by raiding or exchanging farm goods.[4]

* In the action phase (phase 5), ships can be used to claim additional placement areas on exploration boards.[1]

The game ends immediately after the Feast phase of the final round.[5] After the end, players may place remaining wood and stone on sheds or houses, and place remaining goods tiles in placement areas if possible.[5] The player with the most points wins.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.8 · Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver

[2] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.5 · Your Personal Boards and the Vikings

[3] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.8 · Increasing the Value of an Unclaimed Exploration Board

[4] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.6 · Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …

[5] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.22 · end of the Game and sCorinG · Positive Points

🔧 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 65 ms · ask 5450 ms · total 44248 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 38732 ms · generation 5516 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver", "sharpsignalDocId": 254}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Your Personal Boards and the Vikings", "sharpsignalDocId": 254}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Increasing the Value of an Unclaimed Exploration Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 254}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 254}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "end of the Game and sCorinG · Positive Points", "sharpsignalDocId": 254}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 254 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 254 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 0.90858 of 1422 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 13:25

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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	the solo Game · Course of a Round:	p.23	0.047619 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver	p.8	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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Exploration · Occupation · Extension Tiles in the 4-Player Game	p.20	0.046244 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Your Personal Boards and the Vikings	p.5	0.044796 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 7: Income	p.9	0.04311 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Notes on the Phases of a Round:	p.23	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
#7	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Before Your first Game · Occupation and Weapon Cards	p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 4: Draw a New Weapon · Phase 5: Actions · Phase 6: Determine Start Player	p.9	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

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 47 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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …	p.6	#10	0.02967 (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
#2	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Before Your first Game · Occupation and Weapon Cards	p.5	#7	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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Increasing the Value of an Unclaimed Exploration Board	p.8	#11	0.028382 (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
#4	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Bonus for Placing Three Vikings · Bonus for Placing Four Vikings	p.20	#9	0.030214 (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
#5	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver	p.8	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	the solo Game · Course of a Round:	p.23	#1	0.047619 (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
#7	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	end of the Game and sCorinG · Positive Points	p.22	#27	0.012048 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Your Personal Boards and the Vikings	p.5	#4	0.044796 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Your Personal Boards and the Vikings	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Increasing the Value of an Unclaimed Exploration Board	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	end of the Game and sCorinG · Positive Points	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 65 ms · first delta 2475 ms · total 44248 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 38732 ms · retrieval 65 ms · ask 5450 ms · gateway work 5516 ms · total 44248 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3275
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 413
tok/sec: 137.8 tok/sec — 413 output tokens in 2.997 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 5s 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 180), 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.