Ruling — The Crew: Mission Deep Sea

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**Setup**

1. Shuffle the 40 large playing cards and deal them out face down and equally to all crew members; in a three-person game, one player will receive one more card than the others.[1]

2. Each player places a sonar token green-side-up in front of themselves.[1]

3. Have a reminder card ready for each player.[1]

4. Place the distress signal token face down.[1]

5. Shuffle the 96 small task cards and keep them ready in a face-down pile.[1]

6. If there are task cards in the game, divide them among yourselves before communicating.[2]

**Gameplay**

1. The captain opens the first trick.[3]

2. In each round (trick), each crew member plays one card in turn.[4]

3. Players must follow the suit choice of the first player (the opening suit) by playing a card of the same type/color; if a player does not have a card of that suit, they may play any card.[4][5]

4. Submarine cards are trump cards and will win any trick regardless of other cards in play.[4] If multiple submarines are played, the highest value submarine wins.[4]

5. During a color-suited trick, a submarine may only be played if a card in the color suit cannot be played.[4]

6. The player who plays the highest value card of the opening suit wins the trick (unless a submarine is played).[4][5]

7. The winner of a trick starts the next trick.[3]

8. Won tricks are set aside face down; players may only look at the most recently played trick.[4]

**Communication**

1. Players cannot share information about the cards in their hands (showing, telling, or indicating).[2]

2. Each player may use a sonar token exactly once per mission, only before a trick and never during one.[2]

3. To communicate, a player places a card from their hand in front of them that meets one of three conditions: highest, only, or lowest card of a color in their hand.[6]

4. After placing the card and token, pick up a reminder card to remember the communication is active; when the communicated card is played, discard the reminder card and turn the sonar token to its red side.[1]

**Winning and Losing**

1. The game is cooperative: you win together only if every player is successful in completing their tasks.[5]

2. If even one task cannot be completed, the mission is lost immediately.[3]

3. A mission is failed if a task cannot be successfully completed with the assigned cards.[7]

4. If a mission fails, for the next attempt, you must shuffle and deal the playing cards again; you may choose to try the same task cards or draw new ones.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.7 · Communication: · MISSION PREPARATION

[2] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.5 · Trick-taking game · Communication · Rules of thumb for communication:

[3] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.11 · MISSION SEQUENCE

[4] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.4 · Trick-taking game

[5] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.3 · GAME MATERIALS · Cooperative · Mission-based · Trick-taking game

[6] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.19 · TASK CARDS · Currents · Rapture of the Deep

[7] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.13 · FEASIBILITY · Rule of thumb for failed attempts:

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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single-flight (PR-5): queued 22166 ms · generation 6714 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 195 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 195 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 0.90249 of 2051 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 13:37

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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	MISSION SEQUENCE	p.11	0.047131 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	GAME MATERIALS · Cooperative · Mission-based · Trick-taking game	p.3	0.04598 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TWO-PERSON GAME	p.22	0.045956 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)		p.2	0.043636 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Real-time missions · Free selection of tasks · TWO-PERSON GAME	p.21	0.04359 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)		p.1	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game · Communication · Rules of thumb for communication:	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

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 28 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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	MISSION SEQUENCE	p.11	#2	0.047131 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Communication: · MISSION PREPARATION	p.7	#12	0.028283 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	FEASIBILITY · Rule of thumb for failed attempts:	p.13	#15	0.027047 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game · Communication · Rules of thumb for communication:	p.5	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TASK CARDS · Currents · Rapture of the Deep	p.19	#11	0.028814 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game	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
#7	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TASK CARDS	p.17	#10	0.029437 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	GAME MATERIALS · Cooperative · Mission-based · Trick-taking game	p.3	#3	0.04598 (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 The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Communication: · MISSION PREPARATION	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game · Communication · Rules of thumb for communication:	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	MISSION SEQUENCE	p.11	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	GAME MATERIALS · Cooperative · Mission-based · Trick-taking game	p.3	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TASK CARDS · Currents · Rapture of the Deep	p.19	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	FEASIBILITY · Rule of thumb for failed attempts:	p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 78 ms · first delta 2243 ms · total 28880 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 22166 ms · retrieval 78 ms · ask 6634 ms · gateway work 6714 ms · total 28880 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3140
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 614
tok/sec: 138.7 tok/sec — 614 output tokens in 4.428 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 113), 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.