Ruling — Lisboa

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A game of Lisboa is divided into 2 time periods, each spanning a variable number of rounds.[1] A turn consists of the following sequence:

1. Dock Your Ships.[1]

2. Either Get 1 Gold or Take an Action.[1]

* To take an action, play a card from your hand to take 1 of 4 described actions (you must be able to perform the action to take it).[2]

* You play the card into your Portfolio to take action 1 or 2.[2]

* You play the card into the Royal Court to take action 3 or 4.[2]

* To Visit a Noble (action 3), play the Noble's card from your hand to the Royal Court, place your Courtier meeple atop the card, and spend Influence.[3] You may optionally take one of the Noble's State actions without paying a good, but you must take the Noble action.[3]

* To play a Noble card into your Portfolio, receive the reward/pay the penalty, select an empty top slot or discard a card to make room, and tuck the card under your player board so the bottom portion is covered.[4] After playing, you must perform a Sell Goods or Trade with the Nobles action.[4]

* To play a Treasury card into your Portfolio, receive the indicated quantity of réis, move the Treasury marker down 1 space, select an empty bottom slot or discard a card to make room, and tuck the card under your player board so the icons are covered.[4] After playing, you must perform a Sell Goods or Trade with the Nobles action.[4]

3. Take a Political Card.[1]

4. Perform basic end of turn upkeep.[1]

The turn then passes to the player on your left.[1] The game ends when a player completes 2 sets of rubble (brown, red, blue) or 3 decks of Political cards are exhausted.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.8 · Politi c a l C a r d s · GAME CONCEPT · Overview · YOUR TURN

[2] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.9 · Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …

[3] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.16 · ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit

[4] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.10 · Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE

🔧 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 108 ms · ask 5812 ms · total 9434 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 3510 ms · generation 5924 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 9, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "Play a card from your hand to take 1 of the 4 actions described below (you must be able to perform the action in order to take it). You play the card into your Portfolio in order to take action 1 or 2; you play the card into the Royal Court in order to take action 3 or 4 . Any card to Sell Goods; An", "headingPath": "Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "Noble cards must be played in the top slots of your Portfolio. To play a Noble card into your Portfolio, perform the following steps: Receive the reward / pay the penalty depicted at the bottom of the card. If the icon has a over it, it is a penalty , and you must pay the depicted item instead of re", "headingPath": "Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.046394, "snippet": "Visiting one of the 3 Nobles adds new paths to your strategy. Not only does it give you access to one of that Noble's State actions without trading a good, it also gives you access to his powerful Noble action. And nothing is more useful than aid from the most influential personalities of that time.", "headingPath": "ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Put 1 Royal Favor tile of each character, per player, in the Rubble bag. Put all of the Clergy tiles in the Clergy Tile bag. Each player chooses a color and takes the following: 1 player board. 1 Player Aid book. 5 Rubble Set markers (cubes). 8 wooden houses. 8 Officials (meeples). 1 Good tile of ea", "headingPath": "SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 22, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Yellow has the Starting Player tile. Green is at her right so he is the last player in the round. After Green has taken his last turn, Yellow begins a final round in which each player takes one more turn, and then the endgame scoring takes place.", "headingPath": "Example", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "If you have any Ships in your Portfolio that are 'at sea' (i.e. the cargo hold is full, and thus the goods in the cargo hold are flipped face-down so they are all packed up in crates), return the goods from the cargo hold to the general supply. Your Ships at sea have returned from their voyage! If t", "headingPath": "Dock Your Ships · Get 1 Gold · Example", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Only Portugal's strong commerce with its colonies (especially Brazil) and Europe, made it possible to rebuild a completely wrecked city in a modern and enlightened way, and in such a short time. When you take the Sell Goods action, you can sell one or more goods. Perform the following steps for each", "headingPath": "ACTION 1: SELL GOODS · S h i p C a r d s", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The 2 main ways of gaining Influence are as follows: When you Build a Ship (see Build Ship, page 13). When Church Scoring occurs (see Church Scoring, page 15). Both are indicated by an envelope icon with no number. When you gain Influence in this manner, you always earn the total Influence depicted ", "headingPath": "Gaining Influence", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Politi c a l C a r d s · GAME CONCEPT · Overview · YOUR TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 16, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 289 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 289 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 0.91150 of 1322 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 07:55

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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …	p.9	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE	p.10	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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit	p.16	0.046394 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)	p.5	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
#5	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Example	p.22	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))	246
#6	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Dock Your Ships · Get 1 Gold · Example	p.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))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	ACTION 1: SELL GOODS · S h i p C a r d s	p.11	0.029851 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Gaining Influence	p.10	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 50 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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …	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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Example	p.22	#5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Build a Ship _ Example	p.13	#9	0.029274 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit	p.16	#3	0.046394 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Example · Rubble Sets for Reconstruction, o r G a i o l a P o m b a l i n a	p.9	#16	0.025193 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Card Setup · Simulate the Earthquake	p.7	#23	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
#7	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Politi c a l C a r d s · GAME CONCEPT · Overview · YOUR TURN	p.8	#15	0.026021 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE	p.10	#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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Politi c a l C a r d s · GAME CONCEPT · Overview · YOUR TURN	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …	p.9	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	ACTION 3: VISIT A NOBLE · Follow a Visit	p.16	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Playing a Noble Card into Your Portfolio · Playing a Treasury Card into Your Portfolio · INFLUENCE	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 108 ms · first delta 3508 ms · total 9434 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 3510 ms · retrieval 108 ms · ask 5812 ms · gateway work 5924 ms · total 9434 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3837
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 417
tok/sec: 176.2 tok/sec — 417 output tokens in 2.366 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s 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 218), 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.