Ruling — Kutná Hora: The City of Silver

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The game is played in rounds, as indicated by the rounds track at the top of the board.[1]

**Turn Sequence**

1. The player with the starting player marker takes the first turn of the round.[1]

2. Play continues clockwise.[1]

3. On your turn, you choose one of your action cards and play it, choosing one of the and two actions printed on it.[1]

4. Once played, the card cannot be used again for the rest of the round.[1]

5. You play 2 cards per turn for your first two turns.[1]

6. On your final turn, you choose and play only 1 card.[1]

7. The round ends once all players have taken 3 turns (and played 5 of their 6 cards).[1]

**End of Round**

1. Certain things happen at the end of a round, as shown on the rounds track.[1]

2. At the end of each round, each player must either pay taxes or pay a reputation penalty.[1]

3. After a few rounds, red patrician tiles come into play; at the end of each of the final three rounds, Patricians may hand out points.[1]

4. To set up for the next round, take all your action cards back into your hand.[1]

5. The starting player marker passes to the left, and the new starting player starts the new round.[1]

**End of Game**

1. A four-player game ends after 5 rounds, and a two- or three-player game ends after 6.[2]

2. Evaluate results by going through the city building-by-building and awarding the owner of each building 1 point for each matching dot on an adjacent building or side of the board.[2]

3. Go through each row of mines and count the total number of stars in that row to determine the row's value; players are awarded points according to their rank.[2]

4. Calculate income according to the final state of the economy at the end of the game; divide that number by 10 (rounding down) to score that many points.[2]

5. Score points based on the final position of markers on reputation tracks.[2]

6. Score 1 point for each building tile in a slot on your board, each claimed plot that you did not build on, and each pelican token you did not use.[2]

7. The player with the most points wins.[2]

8. Break ties in favor of the player with the most groschen left.[2]

9. Any remaining ties can be settled by jousting (unless players agree to accept a draw).[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook · p.9 · Gameplay

[2] RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook · p.17 · End of Game · Kutná Hora · Mines · Income · Reputation · Extras · …

🔧 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 89 ms · ask 5091 ms · total 5182 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5182 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 504 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 504 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 0.89866 of 1796 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 06:11

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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Gameplay	p.9	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	How to Win	p.9	0.046964 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	How to Win	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
#4	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Rules of Play	p.1	0.045635 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	End of Game · Kutná Hora · Mines · Income · Reputation · Extras · …	p.17	0.043935 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup	p.4	0.042399 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Guild Setup	p.6	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
#8	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)		p.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))	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 34 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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Gameplay	p.9	#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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	End of Game · Kutná Hora · Mines · Income · Reputation · Extras · …	p.17	#5	0.043935 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Economic Adjustments	p.15	#14	0.027273 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup	p.4	#6	0.042399 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Guild Buildings · Miners' Guild	p.13	#10	0.02773 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Rules of Play	p.1	#4	0.045635 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Guild Setup	p.6	#7	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
#8	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	How to Win	p.9	#2	0.046964 (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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Gameplay	p.9	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	End of Game · Kutná Hora · Mines · Income · Reputation · Extras · …	p.17	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 89 ms · first delta 2338 ms · total 5182 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 89 ms · ask 5091 ms · gateway work 5182 ms · total 5182 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2832
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 578
tok/sec: 206.5 tok/sec — 578 output tokens in 2.799 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 435), 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.