Ruling — Kingsburg

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The game is played over five years.[1] Each year is divided into eight phases, which occur in the same order on the Calendar Track.[1] The eight phases are divided into four seasons.[1]

All productive seasons (spring, summer, and autumn) are broken down into four steps, carried out by all players in this order:[2]

1. Roll Dice and Adjust the Turn Order Chart [2]

2. Influence the King's Advisors [2]

3. Receive Help from the Advisors [2]

4. Construct Buildings [2]

**1. Roll Dice and Adjust the Turn Order Chart**

* All players roll all their dice simultaneously.[2]

* You may use the benefits of the Statue and/or Chapel (if owned) to reroll in the order shown on the current Turn Order Chart.[2]

* Player tokens on the Turn Order Chart are adjusted for the season by adding up the value of all their dice (including any white dice rolled for this season).[2]

* The player with the lowest total becomes the new first player, with others acting in order of dice totals (highest total is last).[2]

* In the event of a tie in dice totals, the player whose token was in a higher position during the previous season (or random placement) keeps the higher position.[2]

**2. Influence the King's Advisors**

* In turn order, players have the opportunity to influence one advisor or pass.[3]

* After the last player has influenced an advisor or passed, the first player has an opportunity to influence a second advisor, and so on, until players pass.[3]

* Once a player passes, they are done with this step and their turn will be skipped for the rest of the season.[3]

* To influence an advisor, you must spend one or more dice such that the total is exactly equal to the advisor value.[3]

* You cannot partially spend dice; the full value of all dice must be used.[3]

* You can add a single "+2" token to a die or dice group to increase the sum by exactly two points, but you can only add one token per season to a dice group.[3]

* You cannot influence an advisor if that advisor has already been influenced during the current season by any player.[3]

* You must use at least one colored die to influence an advisor; you cannot use only white dice and/or "+2" tokens.[3]

* You may use two white dice in the same dice group only if that group includes at least one colored die.[3]

* If you have no colored dice left, or cannot legally place the dice you have left, you must pass.[3]

* When all players have passed, proceed to the next step.[3]

**3. Receive Help from the Advisors**

* Each advisor, in ascending order from #1 to #18, helps the player who influenced them by placing a die (or dice) on that advisor's space.[3][4]

* If there are no dice on an advisor's space, that advisor is skipped.[3][4]

* After all advisors have given their gifts, players take their dice off the game board and return them to their supply; any "+2" tokens or white dice used are returned to the general supply.[5]

* Then, proceed to the next step.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.2 · Setup · Goal · How to Play

[2] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.2 · Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season

[3] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.3 · b) Influence the King's Advisors · c) Receive Help from the Advisors

[4] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.3

[5] RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook · p.4 · c) Receive Help from the Advisors

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 532 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 08:38

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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Setup	p.1	0.048131 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)		p.3	0.047379 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Setup · Goal · How to Play	p.2	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	End of the Year · Winning the Game · Special Rule for Two-Player Games	p.7	0.032787 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season	p.2	0.031746 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	b) Influence the King's Advisors · c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.3	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.4	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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)		p.3	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 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Setup · Goal · How to Play	p.2	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Setup	p.1	#1	0.048131 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	b) Influence the King's Advisors · c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.3	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)		p.3	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.4	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Phase 1: Aid from the King	p.2	#9	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
#7	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season	p.2	#5	0.031746 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)		p.3	#2	0.047379 (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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Setup · Goal · How to Play	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	b) Influence the King's Advisors · c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532)	c) Receive Help from the Advisors	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 2019 ms · total 5585 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 93 ms · ask 5490 ms · gateway work 5585 ms · total 5585 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3534
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 718
tok/sec: 203.7 tok/sec — 718 output tokens in 3.524 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 36s 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 464), 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.