Ruling — Dorfromantik: The Board Game

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How do I play?

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1. Determine a start player.[1]

2. Take turns in clockwise order beginning with the start player.[1]

3. In the first 3 turns of the game, you must reveal 1 Task tile.[1]

4. For each turn after the first 3 mandatory selections, check how many Task tiles with Task markers are in the play area:[2]

- If there are fewer than 3 Task tiles with Task markers in the play area, you must reveal 1 Task tile.[2]

- If there are 3 Task tiles with Task markers in the play area, you must reveal 1 Landscape tile.[2]

5. When revealing a Task tile, immediately take 1 matching Task marker, flip it so the number is visible, and place both tiles together in the play area.[1]

6. Before placing a tile, discuss with other players where it might be best used, then make the final decision as to where to place it.[1]

7. Place tiles according to these rules:

- All tiles must be placed so they maintain a single connected group of tiles, with at least 1 of the 6 edges against an edge of a tile already in the play area.[2]

- Tracks and Streams must always match edges with their type.[2]

- Landscape types (Forest, Grain, Village, and neutral Meadows) may be placed however you wish.[2]

- You may not place a Task tile that would cause a territory, Track, or Stream to consist of more tiles at the moment of placement than the current Task marker requires.[3]

- You may not place a Task tile that closes off a territory, Track, or Stream if it results in fewer tiles than the new Task marker requires.[3]

- You may place a tile in a territory, Track, or Stream that contains more tiles than any existing Task marker requires; in this case, you must remove the Task marker and return it to the box.[3]

- You must also remove a Task marker if you close off a territory, Track, or Stream with a Landscape tile such that there are fewer tiles than the Task marker requires.[3]

8. When you complete a Task marker, move it to your Completed Task Marker area.[4]

9. The game ends immediately when you are required to reveal a Landscape tile and there are none left.[5]

10. If you complete a Task with the last Landscape tile (or cancel one), continue playing with revealing and placing new Task tiles until you cannot complete (or cancel) any more Tasks.[5]

11. If you run out of Task tiles, you cannot play any more Task tiles and must continue playing by placing only Landscape tiles until the end of the game.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.2 · COURSE OF THE GAME

[2] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.3 · COURSE OF THE GAME · Completing Tasks

[3] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.4 · Additional Details:

[4] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.4 · Completing Tasks

[5] RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.5 · END OF GAME

🔧 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 88 ms · ask 4636 ms · total 4727 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4727 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COURSE OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 408}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COURSE OF THE GAME · Completing Tasks", "sharpsignalDocId": 408}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Additional Details:", "sharpsignalDocId": 408}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Completing Tasks", "sharpsignalDocId": 408}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 408}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 408 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 408 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 0.92205 of 1950 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 07:36

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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME	p.2	0.04866 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Using the Insert: · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME	p.2	0.047883 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME · Completing Tasks	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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Completing Tasks	p.4	0.046032 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Longest Track and Longest Stream:	p.7	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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	END OF GAME	p.5	0.044776 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)		p.1	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))	178
#8	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	END OF GAME	p.5	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 23 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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME	p.2	#1	0.04866 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Completing Tasks	p.4	#4	0.046032 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Using the Insert: · SETUP · GOAL OF THE GAME	p.2	#2	0.047883 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Additional Details:	p.4	#10	0.028324 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	END OF GAME	p.5	#8	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
#6	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Longest Track and Longest Stream:	p.7	#5	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	END OF GAME	p.5	#6	0.044776 (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 Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME · Completing Tasks	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	COURSE OF THE GAME · Completing Tasks	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Additional Details:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	Completing Tasks	p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Dorfromantik: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 408)	END OF GAME	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 88 ms · first delta 1833 ms · total 4727 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 88 ms · ask 4636 ms · gateway work 4727 ms · total 4727 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3163
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 583
tok/sec: 204.7 tok/sec — 583 output tokens in 2.848 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 39s 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 337), 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.