Ruling — Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures

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1. The players choose a case they all agree on.[1]

2. Place the map of London in the middle of the table.[1]

3. Place the London Directory and the list of informants near the map.[1]

4. Place the newspaper matching the case's date, as well as all previous newspapers, nearby.[1]

5. Players may choose to use blank sheets of paper and pencils for notes.[1]

6. A player is chosen as the 'lead investigator' to read the case's introduction text and begin the game.[1]

7. On a turn, the lead investigator chooses a lead from the current case (for example, by finding an address in the directory).[1]

8. If the chosen lead does not exist in the book, the player chooses another lead.[1]

9. Once a lead is found, the player reads the corresponding paragraph out loud and notes that the lead has been followed.[1]

10. The player's turn ends and they pass the book to the player on their left, who becomes the new lead investigator.[1]

11. Players can talk to each other to debate the next lead, but the current lead investigator has the final word in case of disagreement.[2]

12. All players have free and unlimited access to the directory, the case's newspapers, and previously visited leads during their turn.[2][1]

13. Players can decide to stop following leads whenever they want.[3]

14. Once they stop, players answer two series of questions provided in the case.[3][4]

15. Players then go to the 'Solutions' section and one player reads Holmes' conclusions out loud.[3]

16. Finally, players open the envelope to evaluate their score and compare it to Holmes'.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook · p.9 · CONTENTS

[2] RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook · p.9 · CONTENTS

[3] RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook · p.10 · CONTENTS

[4] RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook · p.7 · CONTENTS

🔧 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 78 ms · ask 3179 ms · total 3259 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3259 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 9, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "/orn11flip The players choose a case they all agree on. For practical reasons, we suggest that the cases are played in chronological order (Notably in order to avoid finding clues in the newspapers which may spoil the surprise, and in so doing, the fun). GAME SETUP /orn11flip The map of London is pl", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.047163, "snippet": "Books 1 through 4 form a campaign which allow players to try and catch the infamous Jack the Ripper. They must be played in order. THE JACK THE RIPPER CAMPAIGN If the players are discovering the world of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with this boxed set, we suggest they do not start with the ", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "The players can decide to stop following leads as soon as they want to. They then move on to the 'Questions' section of the case and answer the two series of questions given to them. END OF THE GAME Players then head over to the 'Solutions' section and one of them reads Holmes' conclusions out loud.", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "The players can follow as many leads as they want, but on their turn a player can only read a single lead. Newspapers, already visited leads, directory: on their turn, all of the players have a free and unlimited access to the directory as well as the case's newspapers. They can also reread the lead", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "/orn11flip Questions: as soon as you think you have solved the case, you will be faced with two series of questions. The first series is always in direct relation to the case. The second series will allow you to score additional points for the discovery of events which are related to the case. /orn1", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "A game by Gary Grady, Suzanne Goldberg & Raymond Edwards Jack the Ripper Campaign: Jérome Ropert Artwork: Pascal Quidault (box), Arnaud Demaegd (covers), Neriac (black and white), Bernard Bittler (maps) Rewriting: JudgeWhyMe & Aëlwyn, Thomas Cauët English Translation: Eric Harlaux English Revision: ", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Y ou take on the role of members of the unofficial gang of the ' Baker Street Irregulars ', founded by the famous Sherlock Holmes to keep him informed about the word on the street and help him in mysterious cases. This book contains ten mysterious cases which will be up to you to solve. Four of thes", "headingPath": "CONSULTING DETECTIVE", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "LIST OF INFORMANTS Located on the back of this book, this list offers Sherlock Holmes' recurring informants, as well as their addresses. These informants will be able to help you in most cases, some being more useful than others depending on events. CASE BOOKS These ten books contain the ten cases y", "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 553}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 553 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 553 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 0.89722 of 1294 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 10:38

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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	0.048916 (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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.10	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
#4	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	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
#5	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.7	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
#6	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.11	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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONSULTING DETECTIVE	p.3	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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.6	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 14 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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.10	#3	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	#4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.5	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONSULTING DETECTIVE	p.3	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.7	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONSULTING DETECTIVE · CONTENTS	p.4	#10	0.014286 (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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.8	#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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	#1	0.048916 (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 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.10	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures — Rulebook (corpus doc 553)	CONTENTS	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 78 ms · first delta 1338 ms · total 3259 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 78 ms · ask 3179 ms · gateway work 3259 ms · total 3259 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2671
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 389
tok/sec: 206.9 tok/sec — 389 output tokens in 1.880 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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 485), 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.