Ruling — Charterstone

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The object of each game of Charterstone is to score the most victory points.[1][2]

**Setup**

1. General Supply: Before Game 1, include 36 coins, 72 resource tokens, and 5 random face-up advancement cards on the mat (with extra cards forming a face-down deck).[3]

2. Objective Mat: Reveal 3 random objective cards.[3]

3. Progress Token: Place this on the space of the progress track corresponding with the player count.[3]

4. First Player: Determine the first player by rolling the Charterstone until it shows an active charter.[3]

5. Personal Supply: Place your persona card, constructed building card, 2 workers, and 12 influence tokens in front of you.[3]

6. VP Token: Place your VP token on 0 VP.[3]

7. Starting Funds: For Game 1 only, each player starts with $4.[3]

**A Turn**

1. If a player begins their turn with 0 influence tokens, they must advance the progress token 1 space before taking their turn.[1][2]

2. On your turn, you must either:

a. Place a worker from your personal supply onto any building on the board.[4]

i. If you place a worker on a building occupied by another worker (yours or an opponent's), bump (return) that worker back to its player.[4]

ii. Pay the cost (bottom left of a building) from your personal supply to the general supply; if you cannot pay, you cannot place a worker there.[4]

iii. You may gain all or part of the benefit (upper right of a building).[4]

b. Retrieve all of your workers from the board.[4]

**Scoring and End of Game**

1. The progress token acts as the game timer; it must advance by 1 space whenever a building is constructed, a crate is unlocked, or an objective is scored.[1][2]

2. When the progress token advances to the end space, finish the round (ensuring each player takes the same number of turns), then the game ends.[1][2]

3. During end-game scoring, players earn VP based on their tokens on the reputation track:

a. The player(s) with the highest number of tokens gain 10 VP.[1][5]

b. The player(s) with the next-highest number gain 7 VP.[1][5]

c. The player(s) with the highest number after that gain 4 VP (players must have at least 1 token to qualify).[1][5]

[1] RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook · p.5 · rule 25 · The progress track is the timer for each game. · Reputation Track · rule 26

[2] RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook · p.5

[3] RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook · p.2 · Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed. · Setup: General & Personal Supply · Influence Tokens

[4] RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook · p.4 · rule 8 · rule 15 · Unlocking a Crate · rule 17 · The Commons includes the following buildings:

[5] RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook · p.5

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 93 ms · ask 4444 ms · total 4539 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4539 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 636 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 636 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 0.87805 of 1763 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 14, 2026 15:38

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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed.	p.1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		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
#3	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed. · Setup: General & Personal Supply · Influence Tokens	p.2	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
#4	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		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
#5	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 25 · The progress track is the timer for each game. · Reputation Track · rule 26	p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	PLEASE READ THIS PAGE BEFORE LOOKING AT ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS BOX.	p.1	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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 8 · rule 15 · Unlocking a Crate · rule 17 · The Commons includes the following buildings:	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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Advancement Mat & Cards · rule 10 · rule 8	p.3	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 9 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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed.	p.1	#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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 25 · The progress track is the timer for each game. · Reputation Track · rule 26	p.5	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	PLEASE READ THIS PAGE BEFORE LOOKING AT ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS BOX.	p.1	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 8 · rule 15 · Unlocking a Crate · rule 17 · The Commons includes the following buildings:	p.4	#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 Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Advancement Mat & Cards · rule 10 · rule 8	p.3	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		p.5	#4	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
#7	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		p.5	#2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed. · Setup: General & Personal Supply · Influence Tokens	p.2	#3	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 25 · The progress track is the timer for each game. · Reputation Track · rule 26	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	Don't open ANYTHING unless specifically instructed. · Setup: General & Personal Supply · Influence Tokens	p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)	rule 8 · rule 15 · Unlocking a Crate · rule 17 · The Commons includes the following buildings:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Charterstone — Rulebook (corpus doc 636)		p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 1592 ms · total 4539 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 4444 ms · gateway work 4539 ms · total 4539 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3401
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 589
tok/sec: 203.9 tok/sec — 589 output tokens in 2.888 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s 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 569), 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.