Ruling — Iberia

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Iberiabg-198928-en-1e

Each player turn is divided into 3 steps:

1. Do 4 actions [1][2]

2. Draw 2 Player cards [1][2]

3. Infect cities [1][2]

After a player is done infecting cities, the player on their left goes next.[2]

**Event Cards**

During a turn, any player may play Event cards.[1] Playing an Event card is not an action.[1][3] The player who plays an Event card decides how it is used.[1] Event cards can be played at any time, except in between drawing and resolving a card.[1] After playing an Event card, discard it to the Player Discard Pile.[1]

**Winning and Losing**

* **Winning:** The players win as soon all 4 diseases have been researched.[1] Once all diseases have been researched, the game ends and players win immediately, no matter how many cubes are on the board.[1]

* **Losing:** There are 3 ways for the game to end and the players to lose:

1. If the outbreaks marker reaches the last space of the Outbreaks Track.[1]

2. If you are unable to place the number of disease cubes actually needed on the board.[1]

3. If a player cannot draw 2 Player cards after doing their actions.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook · p.7 · EVENT CARDS · GAME END

[2] RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook · p.4 · PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …

[3] RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook · p.10

🔧 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 79 ms · ask 4361 ms · total 5050 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 609 ms · generation 4441 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 10, "score": 0.046898, "snippet": "10 HISTORICAL INFORMATIONS Play at any time. N ot an action. Event GOOD SEASON During the next infection step, draw only 1 Infection card, and draw it from the bottom of the Infection Deck. GOOD SEASON Epidemics and new disease outbreaks have decimated populations over the course of human history . ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.046486, "snippet": "Each player turn is divided into 3 steps: Do 4 actions. Draw 2 Player cards. Infect cities After a player is done infecting cities, the player on their left goes next. Players should freely give each other advice. However, the player whose turn it is decides what to do. Your hand can hold City and E", "headingPath": "PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.042857, "snippet": "When you do the Purify W ater action, you may play any City card, regardless of color. Spend an action to pick up the next 3 Player cards. Rearrange them as you like, then place them back on top of the Player Deck. When you do the Treat Disease action, remove one cube from your city, and one additio", "headingPath": "ROYAL ACADEMY SCIENTIST · RURAL DOCTOR · SAILOR", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.042196, "snippet": "3 A CoruñA SAntiAgo deCompoStelA Vigo ourenSe BrAgA porto CoimBrA liSBoA ÉVorA CáCereS BAdAjoz HuelV A SeVillA CórdoBA jAÉn Cádiz giBrAltAr grAnAdA AlmeríA CArtAgenA AliCAnte VAlenCiA AlBACete CiudAd reAl CuenCA teruel tArrAgonA BArCelonA pAlmA de mAllorCA gironA OUTBREAKS TRACK AndorrA lA VellA Hue", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.041912, "snippet": "RAILWAYMAN • Once per turn, when you do the Build Railroad action, you may place two consecutive railroad tokens starting from your current city. • When you Move by Train, you make take one passenger (a pawn in your city) with you. Rural Doctor • When you do the Treat Disease action, you may remove ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.041539, "snippet": "Event T ake the City card matching your current city from the Player Discard pile. SECOND CHANCE SECOND CHANCE Different diseases struck cities one after another, or at the same time. As modern medicine advanced, so did life expectancy. Play at any time. N ot an action. Event Select a port city. Mov", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "| # of players | Events in Deck | Starting Hand | | 2-player game | 4 | 4 | | 3-player game | 5 | 3 | | 4-player game | 6 | 2 | | 5-player game | 8 | 2 |", "headingPath": "GIVE EACH PLAYER A ROLE CARD, A PAWN, AND A REFERENCE CARD", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Sailor • When you do the Move by Ship action, do not spend a card. • When you do the Move by Ship action, you may take one pawn in your city with you. SAILOR • When you Move by Ship, do not spend a card. • When you Move by Ship you may take one passenger (a pawn in your city) with you. CREDITS Game ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EVENT CARDS · GAME END", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 317}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 317 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 317 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 0.87514 of 889 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 06:04

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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.10	0.046898 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …	p.4	0.046486 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	ROYAL ACADEMY SCIENTIST · RURAL DOCTOR · SAILOR	p.12	0.042857 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.3	0.042196 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.12	0.041912 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.10	0.041539 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	GIVE EACH PLAYER A ROLE CARD, A PAWN, AND A REFERENCE CARD	p.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))	153
#8	RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.12	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

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 44 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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	ROYAL ACADEMY SCIENTIST · RURAL DOCTOR · SAILOR	p.12	#3	0.042857 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	EVENT CARDS · GAME END	p.7	#9	0.030282 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.12	#5	0.041912 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.10	#1	0.046898 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.10	#6	0.041539 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.12	#34	0.014493 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	SHARE KNOWLEDGE · RESEARCH A DISEASE	p.4	#15	0.02605 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …	p.4	#2	0.046486 (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 Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	EVENT CARDS · GAME END	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)	PLAY · ACTIONS · MOVE BY CARRIAGE / BOAT · MOVE BY TRAIN · MOVE BY SHIP · BUILD RAILROAD · …	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Iberia — Rulebook (corpus doc 317)		p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 79 ms · first delta 2973 ms · total 5050 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 609 ms · retrieval 79 ms · ask 4361 ms · gateway work 4441 ms · total 5050 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3535
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 293
tok/sec: 205.8 tok/sec — 293 output tokens in 1.424 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 40s 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 246), 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.