Ruling — Speakeasy

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### Setup Round (1920)

1. The last player who had an 'illegal drink' starts and places their Turn Order marker on the leftmost space on the top row of the Turn Order track.[1]

2. In clockwise order, each other player places their Turn Order marker on the leftmost empty space of the same track.[1]

3. In a 3-player game, place a Blocked District marker covering the fourth spaces of both rows.[1]

4. In reverse turn order (starting with the player whose Turn Order marker is to the right of all others), each player performs the following:

* Choose your Stills or one of your Speakeasies to open.[1]

* Using the $15 placed in front of you, pay the cost of the Stills or Speakeasy you are opening, as indicated below it on your Operations board ($3, $5, or $8).[1]

* Place the Stills or Speakeasy you are opening on an empty building space on the Main board.[1]

* Gain the City tile on the chosen building space, placing it on one of the four spaces for City tiles on your Operations board.[1]

* Gain the benefit shown on your Operations board below the space of the Speakeasy or Stills you just opened.[1]

* Play an Operations card from your hand, sliding it in the matching Operations slot on the top of your Operations board for that type of Operations card.[1]

* Immediately gain the benefit shown in the icon above the dashed line on the top left corner of the card (note: you do not draw a card as usual, and this card does not offer any benefit).[1]

### Turn Order

The order in which players take turns is determined by the order of their Turn Order markers on the upper row of the Turn Order track, starting with the marker on the leftmost space and proceeding to the right.[2]

### A Turn

On your turn, follow these steps in order:

1. You may gain the benefit indicated on the lower half of one Helper card in front of you, and then place it behind your Safe screen; you may not use that Helper card again.[2]

2. You MUST send one of your Capos to 'talk' to a Person of Interest at one of the eight locations (Docks, City Hall, Restaurant, Commission, Contractor and City Planning offices, Garage, or Park).[2]

* Place the Capo on a Person of Interest without a Capo on it and perform the actions of that person.[2]

* Each person 'talks' with only one Capo during each ACT, with the exception that there is no limit to the number of Capos that may be sent to the Restaurant.[2]

3. Draw the top card from any of the four Operations decks.[2]

### End of Round

At the end of each round, if the turn order has changed:

1. Each player gains $3 in their pocket (cash) for each Operating Casino they have ($5 in a 2-player game).[2]

2. Retaining the current order, adjust each Turn Order marker on the upper row of the track so that the spaces directly below them are vacant.[2]

3. Move any Turn Order markers located on the lower row of the Turn Order track up to occupy the corresponding positions on the upper row.[2]

4. At the round's conclusion (after each player has taken a turn and placed a Capo), the turn order for the next round is adjusted.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook · p.6 · Setup Round (1920)

[2] RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook · p.8 · 2. player rOuNDs (aCTs 1/2/3/4) · TurN OrDer · Example:

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 76 ms · ask 7965 ms · total 8043 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8043 ms
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base rulebook doc 346 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 06:13

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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Garage (2 People in a 3/4 Player Game. 2 in a 2-player game) · INCrease aNy ONe Of yOur OperaTIONs Or sTreNGTH levels by 1 · play ONe fleeT CarD aND GaIN a +2 raNGe bONus · pICk up aND DelIver barrels · TO mOve yOur TruCks:	p.16	0.047123 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	2. player rOuNDs (aCTs 1/2/3/4) · TurN OrDer · Example:	p.8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Setup Round (1920)	p.6	0.046452 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Rest aurant (No limit for the number of Capos that can be sent) · CHaNGe THe TurN OrDer fOr NexT rOuND · perfOrm 2 DIffereNT aCTIONs · a: play ONe OperaTIONs CarD · b: play up TO TWO CITy TIles · C: COOk up TO THree bOOks	p.19	0.04598 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	play ONe parTy CarD · Example:	p.15	0.044796 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	eaCH player: · alsO Take: · yOur OperaTIONs bOarD: · yOur safe sCreeN: · ON THe maIN bOarD:	p.6	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
#7	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	COps	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
#8	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	OperaTIONs CarD · play ONe OperaTIONs CarD · INCrease aN OperaTIONs level · INCrease yOur sTreNGTH level · INCreasING yOur INfamy	p.12	0.030679 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	OperaTIONs CarD · play ONe OperaTIONs CarD · INCrease aN OperaTIONs level · INCrease yOur sTreNGTH level · INCreasING yOur INfamy	p.12	#8	0.030679 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Components · IN 2-player Games:	p.4	#18	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
#3	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	City Planning Office (3 People in a 3/4 Player Game. 2 in a 2-player game) · Or Take Over a mObsTer speakeasy · a: OpeN a NIGHTClub Or CasINO · b: upGraDe ONe Of yOur speakeasIes TO a NIGHTClub Or CasINO · C: Take Over a mObsTer speakeasy · play ONe OperaTIONs CarD · …	p.15	#14	0.027313 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Garage (2 People in a 3/4 Player Game. 2 in a 2-player game) · INCrease aNy ONe Of yOur OperaTIONs Or sTreNGTH levels by 1 · play ONe fleeT CarD aND GaIN a +2 raNGe bONus · pICk up aND DelIver barrels · TO mOve yOur TruCks:	p.16	#1	0.047123 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	COps · CITy TIles · ZONe GOal TIles · CeNTral park GOal TIles	p.5	#33	0.010753 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Docks (2 People in a 3/4 Player Game. 1 in a 2-player game) · play a sTIlls CarD · HIre ONe GOON fOr free · ambusH a rum-ruNNer sHIp	p.18	#11	0.028259 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	2. player rOuNDs (aCTs 1/2/3/4) · TurN OrDer · Example:	p.8	#2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Setup Round (1920)	p.6	#3	0.046452 (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 Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	Setup Round (1920)	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Speakeasy — Rulebook (corpus doc 346)	2. player rOuNDs (aCTs 1/2/3/4) · TurN OrDer · Example:	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 76 ms · first delta 3247 ms · total 8043 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 76 ms · ask 7965 ms · gateway work 8043 ms · total 8043 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4129
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 761
tok/sec: 160.3 tok/sec — 761 output tokens in 4.746 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 25s 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 274), 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.