Ruling — Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala

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To play Five Tribes, follow these steps:

**At the start of the game and the beginning of all new turns:**

1. All players must bid for Turn Order to determine the order in which they will play this turn.[1]

2. The player whose Turn marker is in first position on the Bid Order track goes first; they announce which spot of the Turn Order Track they wish to place their Turn Marker on, immediately pay the indicated amount of Gold Coins to the bank, and place their Turn Marker there.[2]

3. The player whose Turn Marker is next on the Bid Order Track goes next, paying for their chosen spot, until all Turn Markers have been placed on the Turn Order Track.[2]

4. Players cannot bid for or place their Turn Marker on the same spot as another Turn marker already on the Turn Order Track, except when bidding 0.[2]

5. If a player bids 0 and there are already Turn Markers on '0', those markers are "pushed down the aisle of 0s" to make room; the last player to bid on '0' plays first among the '0' markers, and the first to bid on '0' plays last.[2]

6. There can never be more than 3 Turn Markers placed on '0's; if all three are taken, the last player must bid at least 1.[2][3]

7. Players take their turns based on the position of their Markers on the Turn Order Track, with the highest value Markers going first.[2][3]

**During a player's turn:**

1. Take your Turn Marker off the Turn Order Track and place it onto the first empty spot on the Bid Order Track.[4]

2. Select a Tile that has at least 1 Meeple on it.[4]

3. Take all the Meeples from that Tile into your hand and move them onto adjacent Tiles (each Tile must be adjacent to the prior Tile the Meeplies moved through), dropping 1 Meeple on each Tile as you pass through until you run out of Meeples.[4]

**End of the game:**

1. The game stops at the end of the Turn during which either a player drops their last Camel on a Tile and finishes their actions as normal, or no more legal Meeples movement is possible.[5]

2. The game ends once all players have had a chance to take their actions for that turn.[5]

3. Players may still take other actions, such as invoking the special powers of Djinns they own, before passing to the next player.[5]

4. Once all players have played the Actions they could still take (or passed), the Turn finishes, the game ends, and final scores are computed.[5]

5. The player with the most Victory Points wins the game and becomes Great Sultan of Naqala.[1][5]

[1] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.3 · Object of the game · Victory Points · Gameturn

[2] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.3 · 1. Bid for Turn Order

[3] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.3 · 1. Bid for Turn Order

[4] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.4 · 2. Player's Actions · 2.1 Move Turn Marker · 2.2 Move Meeples

[5] RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook · p.8 · End of the Game · ✦ A player drops his last Camel on a Tile: · ✦ No more legal Meeples movement is possible: · Scoring · Credits

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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base rulebook doc 285 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2. Player's Actions · 2.1 Move Turn Marker · 2.2 Move Meeples	p.4	0.047938 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Settingupthegame	p.2	0.047875 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	0.047163 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	0.046875 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	End of the Game · ✦ A player drops his last Camel on a Tile: · ✦ No more legal Meeples movement is possible: · Scoring · Credits	p.8	0.045724 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Object of the game · Victory Points · Gameturn	p.3	0.045688 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Days of Wonder Online	p.8	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
#8	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2.3 Tile Control Check · 2.4 Tribes Actions · Yellow Viziers Tribe · White Elders Tribe	p.5	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 16 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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2. Player's Actions · 2.1 Move Turn Marker · 2.2 Move Meeples	p.4	#1	0.047938 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	#3	0.047163 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Object of the game · Victory Points · Gameturn	p.3	#6	0.045688 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	There are 3 rules you must respect while moving these Meeples:	p.5	#10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	End of the Game · ✦ A player drops his last Camel on a Tile: · ✦ No more legal Meeples movement is possible: · Scoring · Credits	p.8	#5	0.045724 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	3. Clean-Up · ✦ Replenish the row of Resource cards: · ✦ Replenish the row of Djinns cards:	p.7	#9	0.02901 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	#4	0.046875 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Settingupthegame	p.2	#2	0.047875 (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 Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	Object of the game · Victory Points · Gameturn	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	1. Bid for Turn Order	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	2. Player's Actions · 2.1 Move Turn Marker · 2.2 Move Meeples	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — Rulebook (corpus doc 285)	End of the Game · ✦ A player drops his last Camel on a Tile: · ✦ No more legal Meeples movement is possible: · Scoring · Credits	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 112 ms · first delta 1725 ms · total 4714 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 112 ms · ask 4599 ms · gateway work 4714 ms · total 4714 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2797
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 607
tok/sec: 206.1 tok/sec — 607 output tokens in 2.945 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s 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 214), 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.