Ruling — Life of the Amazonia

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Players take turns in a clockwise direction until the 'End of the Game' conditions are met.[1] Each turn consists of an Action Phase and a Clean-up Phase.[1]

**Action Phase**

1. Pay the required amount of Resource Tokens to perform desired Actions.[1] There are 8 possible Actions: Purchase a Resource Token, Place a Terrain Tile, Place an Animal, Place a Tree, Place an Aquatic Flower, Purchase a Nature Card, Expand Storage, or Purchase a Bonus.[1]

2. To perform an Action, Players discard Resource Tokens from their 'Play Area' to their 'Discard Pile Boat'.[2]

3. Players can take as many Actions as they want, one after the other, as long as they can pay the required amount, even if repeating the same Action.[2]

4. If a Player pays with more Resource Tokens than required, the excess is not refunded and the remaining resources dissipate immediately.[2]

5. Only one type of Action can be performed with a single payment, though a single payment can allow a Player to perform that one type of Action as many times as the payment allows.[2]

6. When performing the same Action multiple times with a single payment, the full cost must be paid all at once, and the Actions are executed in succession.[2]

**Clean-up Phase**

1. Store unused Resource Tokens in the Play Area, up to the number marked on the Player's Storage Track on the Waterfall of Life; any unused tokens that cannot be stored are discarded into the Discard Pile Boat.[3]

2. Draw 5 new Resource Tokens from the Resource Bag and place them in the Play Area.[3]

3. Once the Clean-up phase is complete, the next Player begins their Action Phase.[3]

**End of the Game**

1. The game ends when 5 of the 8 Base Animal Cards have been depleted; the remaining Players (excluding the Player who depleted the last of the 5 Base Animals) play one more turn each.[1]

2. Each Player counts their Environmental Score, and the Player with the highest score wins.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook · p.6 · GAME STRUCTURE

[2] RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook · p.7 · 5 RULES REGARDING ACTIONS

[3] RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook · p.14 · CALCULATING YOUR SCORE

🔧 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 81 ms · ask 5275 ms · total 5358 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5358 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 515 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 515 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 0.91929 of 1586 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 04:35

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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	CALCULATING YOUR SCORE	p.14	0.048139 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	GAME STRUCTURE	p.6	0.04741 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	5 RULES REGARDING ACTIONS	p.7	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
#4	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION	p.5	0.046871 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	7. EXPAND STORAGE · 8. PURCHASE A BONUS	p.12	0.046642 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION	p.5	0.045928 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	END OF THE GAME · BASE ANIMAL SCORE CALCULATION · SCORING CRITERIA FOR BASE ANIMALS	p.14	0.043184 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	2. PLACE A TERRAIN TILE	p.9	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 52 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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION	p.5	#4	0.046871 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION	p.5	#6	0.045928 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	GAME SETUP CHANGES	p.18	#12	0.02748 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	5 RULES REGARDING ACTIONS	p.7	#3	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
#5	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	I. INTRODUCTION I. INTRODUCTION	p.5	#20	0.014085 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	GAME STRUCTURE	p.6	#2	0.04741 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	7. EXPAND STORAGE · 8. PURCHASE A BONUS	p.12	#5	0.046642 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	CALCULATING YOUR SCORE	p.14	#1	0.048139 (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 Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	GAME STRUCTURE	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	5 RULES REGARDING ACTIONS	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Life of the Amazonia — Rulebook (corpus doc 515)	CALCULATING YOUR SCORE	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 81 ms · first delta 3106 ms · total 5358 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 81 ms · ask 5275 ms · gateway work 5358 ms · total 5358 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3513
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 448
tok/sec: 202.7 tok/sec — 448 output tokens in 2.210 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 12s 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 447), 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.