Ruling — Cacao — RuleSage

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### Setup

1. Each player chooses one color and takes the village board, the water carrier, and the worker tiles of that color.[1]

2. Place the village board in front of you and put the water carrier on the water field with the value '-10'.[1]

3. Depending on the number of players, sort out and return specific worker tiles to the box: for 3 players, 1x 1-1-1-1; for 4 players, 1x 1-1-1-1 and 1x 2-1-0-1.[1]

4. Mix your worker tiles and place them face-down as a worker draw pile next to your village board, then draw the top 3 worker tiles into your hand.[1]

5. Select 1x single plantation and 1x market (selling price 2) and place them face up diagonally to each other to form the starting tiles.[1]

6. For a two-player game only, sort out and return 2x single plantation, 1x market (selling and price 3), and 1x gold mine (value 1) to the box.[1]

7. Mix the remaining jungle tiles and lay them out as a face-down jungle draw pile.[1]

8. Draw the top 2 jungle tiles from the jungle draw pile and place them face-up as a jungle display.[1]

9. Lay out cacao fruits, sun tokens, and gold coins (to serve as the bank) as separate supply piles.[1]

### A Game Turn

The game proceeds in clockwise order, starting with the oldest player.[2] On your turn, carry out these steps in order:

1. Choose 1 worker tile from your hand and place it laterally adjacent to at least 1 jungle tile already in play, orienting it in any direction you want.[2]

2. Fill jungle spaces if necessary: if the newly placed worker tile results in 2 worker tiles being adjacent to 1 unoccupied jungle space, you must fill that space.[2] For each space to be filled, pick 1 jungle tile from the jungle display and place it on the space; if more than 2 spaces need filling, use tiles from the jungle draw pile.[2]

3. Carry out jungle tile actions: Each worker on the newly placed worker tile adjacent to a jungle tile is activated, allowing you to carry out the actions of the adjacent jungle tile.[3] If jungle spaces were filled during the turn, adjacent workers of other players are also activated.[3] Players can carry out these actions simultaneously and independently.[3]

4. Draw a new worker tile: Draw the top worker tile from your worker draw pile and take it into your hand; if the pile is depleted, skip this.[3]

5. Refill the jungle display: If there are fewer than 2 jungle tiles in the jungle display, refill it to 2 by drawing from the jungle draw pile.[3]

6. End your turn and pass to your left neighbor.[3]

### Ending the Game

1. The game ends after the round in which all players have placed their last worker tile.[3]

2. Score the temples individually, one after another.[4]

3. Players in first and second place obtain gold.[4]

4. For each sun token owned at the end of the game, receive 1 gold from the bank.[4]

5. Add your gold to the value of the water field where your water carrier is standing (subtracting the value if it is negative).[4]

6. The player with the most gold wins; in a tie, the player with the most cacao fruits left wins; if still tied, players share the win.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook · p.2 · SET UP · WORKER TILES · JUNGLE TILES

[2] RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook · p.3 · COURSE OF THE GAME · THE PLAYING AREA · A GAME TURN · A) Place 1 worker tile · B) Fill jungle spaces

[3] RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook · p.4 · C) Carry out jungle tile actions · Ending a turn · END OF THE GAME

[4] RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook · p.4 · SCORING · Example:

🔧 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 85 ms · ask 5219 ms · total 5307 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5307 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SET UP · WORKER TILES · JUNGLE TILES", "sharpsignalDocId": 659}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COURSE OF THE GAME · THE PLAYING AREA · A GAME TURN · A) Place 1 worker tile · B) Fill jungle spaces", "sharpsignalDocId": 659}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "C) Carry out jungle tile actions · Ending a turn · END OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 659}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SCORING · Example:", "sharpsignalDocId": 659}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 659 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 659 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 0.90000 of 2510 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 04:58

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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	COURSE OF THE GAME · THE PLAYING AREA · A GAME TURN · A) Place 1 worker tile · B) Fill jungle spaces	p.3	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SET UP · WORKER TILES · JUNGLE TILES	p.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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	C) Carry out jungle tile actions · Ending a turn · END OF THE GAME	p.4	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
#4	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)		p.1	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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SCORING · Example:	p.4	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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)		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))	44

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 6 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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	COURSE OF THE GAME · THE PLAYING AREA · A GAME TURN · A) Place 1 worker tile · B) Fill jungle spaces	p.3	#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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SCORING · Example:	p.4	#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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)		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 Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)		p.1	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	C) Carry out jungle tile actions · Ending a turn · END OF THE GAME	p.4	#3	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
#6	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SET UP · WORKER TILES · JUNGLE TILES	p.2	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SET UP · WORKER TILES · JUNGLE TILES	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	COURSE OF THE GAME · THE PLAYING AREA · A GAME TURN · A) Place 1 worker tile · B) Fill jungle spaces	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	C) Carry out jungle tile actions · Ending a turn · END OF THE GAME	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Cacao — Rulebook (corpus doc 659)	SCORING · Example:	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 85 ms · first delta 1406 ms · total 5307 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 85 ms · ask 5219 ms · gateway work 5307 ms · total 5307 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2452
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 793
tok/sec: 205.8 tok/sec — 793 output tokens in 3.853 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 8s 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 592), 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.