Ruling — Tobago

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Tobagobg-42215-en-1e

Players take turns in a clockwise direction, starting with the player who has visited an island most recently.[1][2]

During your turn, you may perform one of the following two actions:

1. Play a clue card [1][2]

2. Move your ATV [3]

**Playing a Clue Card**

* Choose a clue card from your hand and place it face-up below the last clue card of one of the treasure maps.[1]

* New clue cards are always placed below the other cards of a treasure map.[1]

* Mark the clue card just played with one of your compass roses.[1]

* Draw a replacement card from the clue card deck so your hand contains 4 cards (6 cards in a two-player game).[2]

**Other Turn Options and Actions**

* At any time during your turn, you may, if possible, raise treasures and/or play one or more amulets.[4]

* **Raising a Treasure:** You can raise a treasure if the exact location is defined (only one site marker of that color remains) and your ATV reaches or occupies the space containing that remaining site marker.[4] To raise it, place one of your compass roses below the last clue card of the corresponding treasure map, then remove the site marker and return it to its pile.[4]

* **Playing Amulets:** You can play as many amulets as you like at any time during your turn.[5] For any used amulet, you may perform one additional action: take any site marker off the game board and place it back on its site marker pile (provided you do not remove the last remaining site marker of a given color).[5]

* **Picking up Amulets:** You can only pick up amulets on your turn.[5] You may take an amulet if your ATV already occupies its space at the start of your turn (this does not count as an action), or you may pick one up by moving your ATV into that space and completing one of your legs there.[5] Note that picking up amulets is not allowed on an action granted by an amulet.[5]

**Distributing a Treasure**

* After a treasure is raised, each player draws as many treasure cards as they have compass roses on or below that treasure map.[4]

* After looking at the cards secretly, players hand them face down to the player distributing the treasure.[4]

* The distributor draws an additional card from the treasure deck and adds it to the cards received from other players.[6][4]

* The distributor shuffles the cards thoroughly and displays the top card face-up.[6]

* Players are asked in sequence (from bottom to top, beginning with the player who raised the treasure) if they want to claim the treasure card.[6]

* If a player claims a card, they place it face down and are given back the compass rose used to claim it.[6]

* If a player declines, the next higher compass rose owner is asked.[6]

* If no one claims a card, it is placed on the treasure card discard pile.[6]

* This repeats until all cards for that treasure have been offered or no compass roses remain on the map.[6]

* **Cursed Treasures:** If a curse card is turned up, the remaining treasure cards for that treasure are not distributed, and players with compass roses on or below the map must discard an amulet (or lose their most valuable treasure card if they have no amulet).[7]

**Ending the Game**

* The game ends after the treasure card deck runs out, but not before the current treasure has been distributed.[8]

* The winner is whoever has collected the most gold coins on their gathered treasure cards.[8]

[1] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.2 · A) Play a clue card · Each clue eliminates spaces as possible treasure locations

[3] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.1 · · Play a clue card · · Move your ATV · · Protection against a curse · · Exchange your clue cards · An example: · 'CURSED!' -- Some Tactical Advice:

[4] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.2

[5] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.1 · b) Picking up Amulets · Amulet Powers: · · Remove a site marker

[6] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.2

[7] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.1 · c) Cursed Treasures · d) Starting a New Treasure Hunt · a) The Mysterious Appearance of the Amulets II. The Amulets

[8] RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook · p.1 · Possible Curse Variations: · En|ing the Game:

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 95 ms · ask 5557 ms · total 5654 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5654 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 657 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 657 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 0.92240 of 2745 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 10:09

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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	A) Play a clue card · Each clue eliminates spaces as possible treasure locations	p.2	0.048412 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	· Play a clue card · · Move your ATV · · Protection against a curse · · Exchange your clue cards · An example: · 'CURSED!' -- Some Tactical Advice:	p.1	0.048387 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	Possible Curse Variations: · En\|ing the Game:	p.1	0.046176 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	0.045805 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	b) Picking up Amulets · Amulet Powers: · · Remove a site marker	p.1	0.045695 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	0.045536 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	0.044343 (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 11 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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	· Play a clue card · · Move your ATV · · Protection against a curse · · Exchange your clue cards · An example: · 'CURSED!' -- Some Tactical Advice:	p.1	#2	0.048387 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	b) Picking up Amulets · Amulet Powers: · · Remove a site marker	p.1	#6	0.045695 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	#7	0.045536 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	c) Cursed Treasures · d) Starting a New Treasure Hunt · a) The Mysterious Appearance of the Amulets II. The Amulets	p.1	#10	0.029236 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	#5	0.045805 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	#8	0.044343 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	Possible Curse Variations: · En\|ing the Game:	p.1	#4	0.046176 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	A) Play a clue card · Each clue eliminates spaces as possible treasure locations	p.2	#1	0.048412 (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 Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	A) Play a clue card · Each clue eliminates spaces as possible treasure locations	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	· Play a clue card · · Move your ATV · · Protection against a curse · · Exchange your clue cards · An example: · 'CURSED!' -- Some Tactical Advice:	p.1	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	b) Picking up Amulets · Amulet Powers: · · Remove a site marker	p.1	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	c) Cursed Treasures · d) Starting a New Treasure Hunt · a) The Mysterious Appearance of the Amulets II. The Amulets	p.1	no quote on the wire
[8]	RULEBOOK Tobago — Rulebook (corpus doc 657)	Possible Curse Variations: · En\|ing the Game:	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 95 ms · first delta 1627 ms · total 5654 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 95 ms · ask 5557 ms · gateway work 5654 ms · total 5654 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4240
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 808
tok/sec: 203.7 tok/sec — 808 output tokens in 3.966 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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 590), 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.