Ruling — The Taverns of Tiefenthal

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The game is played over 8 turns.[1] Each turn consists of 7 phases played in the following order:

1. **A New Evening in the Tavern** (Start Player): The Start Player moves the Moon to the next space on the Turn Track.[2] On Turn 1, it is placed on the first space.[2] Moving onto a symbol provides a bonus to all players.[2]

2. **The Guests Arrive** (All players simultaneously): Players reveal the top card of their deck and place it face up in the appropriate spot in their tavern.[2] Players continue drawing Guest Cards and placing them until all Tables are occupied.[2] If a Noble is drawn, the first is placed at a free Table, and subsequent Nobles are placed on top of previously drawn Nobles.[2]

3. **Here Comes the Server** (All players simultaneously): For each Server drawn in the Arrival Phase, a player takes 1 die of their player color from the general supply, rolls it, and places it below their Tavern Board.[3] If a player has a permanent Server, they also receive 1 die from that Server, up to a maximum of 3 dice.[3]

4. **Can I Take Your Order?** (In turn order): All players roll the 4 white dice on their Dice Coasters at the same time and return them to the Coaster with numbers facing up.[4] Beginning with the Start Player and continuing in turn order, each player selects 1 white die from their Coaster and places it below their Tavern Board.[4] After all players have chosen 1 die, everyone passes their Dice Coaster to the player on their left.[4] This process repeats 3 more times until all Coasters are empty and each player has 4 white dice below their Tavern Board.[4]

5. **Plan Your Actions** (All players simultaneously): (No specific steps provided for this phase).

6. **Serve the Guests!** (In turn order): Beginning with the Start Player, each player performs actions in turn order.[5] Players remove placed dice one at a time to track actions.[5] Actions can be performed in any order.[5] When removing a die from a Monk, the player moves their marker forward on the Monastery Track.[5] Removing a die from a Regular, Guest, or Noble provides Thalers.[5] Removing a die from this space provides 1 Beer, and removing a '2' die provides 2 Thalers.[5] Players can combine dice to pay for actions or use excess Thalers/Beer for other actions or storage.[5] At the end of this phase, any unused Thalers or Beer that cannot be kept are discarded.[5]

7. **Closing Time!** (All players simultaneously): All cards drawn and placed in the tavern during this turn are placed in the player's discard pile.[2]

**Winning the Game:**

After 8 turns, the player with the most victory points wins.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.4 · THE MODULES · COMPONENTS (MODULE 1) · GAME OVERVIEW (MODULE 1)

[2] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.4 · GAMEPLAY

[3] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.6 · GAMEPLAY · C Here Comes the Server (all players)

[4] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.6 · D Can I Take Your Order? (turn order)

[5] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.7 · Serve the Guests! (turn order) · 1. Serve a Guest

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 89 ms · ask 4889 ms · total 4980 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4980 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 362 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 362 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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answer fence: passed — letter density 0.90632 of 2167 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 09:08

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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	0.048652 (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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	D Can I Take Your Order? (turn order)	p.6	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
#3	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	SETUP	p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAME OVERVIEW · GAME	p.2	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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Serve the Guests! (turn order) · 1. Serve a Guest	p.7	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	FREQUENTLY FORGOTTEN RULES · QUICK START GUIDE	p.12	0.030415 (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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Plan Your Actions (all players)	p.7	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY · C Here Comes the Server (all players)	p.6	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

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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	D Can I Take Your Order? (turn order)	p.6	#2	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAME OVERVIEW · GAME	p.2	#4	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	THE MODULES · COMPONENTS (MODULE 1) · GAME OVERVIEW (MODULE 1)	p.4	#10	0.029387 (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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY · C Here Comes the Server (all players)	p.6	#8	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
#5	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Bonuses on the Turn Track · Turns 1, 4 and 6 · Turn 2 · Turn 3 · Turn 5 · Turn 7 · …	p.11	#12	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Serve the Guests! (turn order) · 1. Serve a Guest	p.7	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	SETUP	p.3	#3	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	#1	0.048652 (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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	THE MODULES · COMPONENTS (MODULE 1) · GAME OVERVIEW (MODULE 1)	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY · C Here Comes the Server (all players)	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	D Can I Take Your Order? (turn order)	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Serve the Guests! (turn order) · 1. Serve a Guest	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 89 ms · first delta 1905 ms · total 4980 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 89 ms · ask 4889 ms · gateway work 4980 ms · total 4980 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3345
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 622
tok/sec: 205.3 tok/sec — 622 output tokens in 3.030 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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 291), 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.