Ruling — Codenames: Duet

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Codenames: Duetbg-224037-en-1e

### Setup

1. Sit opposite your partner so that you each see a different side of the key card.[1]

2. Mix up the word cards, choose 25 at random, and lay them out in a 5 × 5 grid.[1]

3. Keep the 15 agent tiles within reach in the middle.[1]

4. Keep the assassin tile dangerously close to the agents.[1]

5. Place 9 timer tokens beside the grid.[1]

6. Draw a random key card from the middle of the deck and place it in the stand with the arrows on the top and bottom edges.[2]

7. Place the key beside the words.[2]

### Gameplay

1. The first player to find a good clue starts the game by giving it; either player can be the clue-giver on the first turn.[3]

2. You and your partner take turns giving clues to each other.[3][4]

3. The clue-giver gives one clue consisting of 1 word and 1 number.[3]

4. The word must be related to the words you want to give a clue for, and the number tells how many words the clue relates to.[3]

5. The clue-giver may also use a "0" clue (e.g., "tree: 0") to indicate that the guesser should not guess words related to that clue.[5]

6. After a clue is given, the guesser tries to figure out what the clue means and may think aloud.[3]

7. The clue-giver must not react to what the guesser says.[3]

8. The guesser indicates their guess by touching one of the cards.[3]

9. If the guesser identifies a word that is green, they may guess again.[3]

10. When a green word is guessed, cover it with a green agent tile facing the partner to show the agent has been contacted.[3]

11. If the guesser picks an innocent bystander, the turn ends, and one timer token is placed on the card facing the partner.[3]

12. If the guesser picks a word that the clue-giver sees as black, the team loses because they have been caught by the assassins.[6]

13. You may choose to "Pass" on your turn to give a clue; if you pass, you give no more clues for the rest of the game, and your partner becomes the clue-giver for all remaining turns.[7]

14. You are not allowed to discuss strategy beyond saying "I'll go" or "You go".[6]

15. You must not tell your partner how many words they have left to guess, but you must tell them when they have no words left to guess.[6]

16. You must not tell your partner what a green word looks like on your side of the key.[7]

### Winning and Losing

1. You win if you contact all 15 agents.[3]

2. You win when all green words from both sides of the key have been guessed.[6]

3. You lose if you meet the assassin.[1]

4. You lose if a player guesses a word that the other player sees as black.[6]

5. If you run out of timer tokens, a sudden death turn occurs.[6]

6. During a sudden death turn, no one gives new clues, but players use all previous clues in one last attempt to win.[6]

7. In sudden death, players make guesses one at a time, and a wrong guess (even an innocent bystander) ends the game and results in a loss.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.2 · SIT OPPOSITE YOUR PARTNER. · LAY OUT 25 RANDOM WORDS. · KEEP THE 15 AGENT TILES WITHIN REACH. · AND THE ASSASSIN. · USE 9 TIMER TOKENS.

[2] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.3 · DRAW A RANDOM KEY CARD. · YOU SEE WHAT THEY MUST GUESS. · THEY SEE WHAT YOU MUST GUESS.

[3] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.4 · HOW TO PLAY · CAVE FIDLE EITHER OF YOU CAN BE THE CLUE-GIVER ON THE FIRST TURN. · THE CLUE-GIVER GIVES ONE CLUE. · CAVE THEN THE GUESSER MAY MAKE MULTIPLE GUESSES.

[4] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.12 · DIFFERENCES FROM CODENAMES · SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD

[5] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.8 · SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD · ZERO CLUE

[6] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.6 · WHEN ALL 9 GREEN WORDS HAVE BEEN GUESSED, SAY SO. · IF YOU FIND ALL 15 AGENTS, YOU WIN. · IF YOU MEET THE ASSASSIN, YOU LOSE. · IF YOU RUN OUT OF TIMER TOKENS, YOU GET A SUDDEN DEATH TURN.

[7] RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook · p.9 · PASSING · WITH 3 OR MORE PLAYERS · LIMITED COMMUNICATION

🔧 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 93 ms · ask 5559 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 350 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 350 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 0.88874 of 2310 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 11:46

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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	HOW TO PLAY · CAVE FIDLE EITHER OF YOU CAN BE THE CLUE-GIVER ON THE FIRST TURN. · THE CLUE-GIVER GIVES ONE CLUE. · CAVE THEN THE GUESSER MAY MAKE MULTIPLE GUESSES.	p.4	0.047493 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)		p.4	0.047123 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD · ZERO CLUE	p.8	0.044337 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	DRAW A RANDOM KEY CARD. · YOU SEE WHAT THEY MUST GUESS. · THEY SEE WHAT YOU MUST GUESS.	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	PASSING · WITH 3 OR MORE PLAYERS · LIMITED COMMUNICATION	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
#6	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SIT OPPOSITE YOUR PARTNER. · LAY OUT 25 RANDOM WORDS. · KEEP THE 15 AGENT TILES WITHIN REACH. · AND THE ASSASSIN. · USE 9 TIMER TOKENS.	p.2	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
#7	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	CODENAMES APP 4.9 ★★★★★ · CODENAMES DUET	p.11	0.030679 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	WHEN ALL 9 GREEN WORDS HAVE BEEN GUESSED, SAY SO. · IF YOU FIND ALL 15 AGENTS, YOU WIN. · IF YOU MEET THE ASSASSIN, YOU LOSE. · IF YOU RUN OUT OF TIMER TOKENS, YOU GET A SUDDEN DEATH TURN.	p.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))	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 15 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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	HOW TO PLAY · CAVE FIDLE EITHER OF YOU CAN BE THE CLUE-GIVER ON THE FIRST TURN. · THE CLUE-GIVER GIVES ONE CLUE. · CAVE THEN THE GUESSER MAY MAKE MULTIPLE GUESSES.	p.4	#1	0.047493 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SIT OPPOSITE YOUR PARTNER. · LAY OUT 25 RANDOM WORDS. · KEEP THE 15 AGENT TILES WITHIN REACH. · AND THE ASSASSIN. · USE 9 TIMER TOKENS.	p.2	#6	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
#3	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	DRAW A RANDOM KEY CARD. · YOU SEE WHAT THEY MUST GUESS. · THEY SEE WHAT YOU MUST GUESS.	p.3	#4	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
#4	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	WHEN ALL 9 GREEN WORDS HAVE BEEN GUESSED, SAY SO. · IF YOU FIND ALL 15 AGENTS, YOU WIN. · IF YOU MEET THE ASSASSIN, YOU LOSE. · IF YOU RUN OUT OF TIMER TOKENS, YOU GET A SUDDEN DEATH TURN.	p.6	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	DIFFERENCES FROM CODENAMES · SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD	p.12	#9	0.030018 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	CODENAMES APP 4.9 ★★★★★ · CODENAMES DUET	p.11	#7	0.030679 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD · ZERO CLUE	p.8	#3	0.044337 (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 Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	PASSING · WITH 3 OR MORE PLAYERS · LIMITED COMMUNICATION	p.9	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SIT OPPOSITE YOUR PARTNER. · LAY OUT 25 RANDOM WORDS. · KEEP THE 15 AGENT TILES WITHIN REACH. · AND THE ASSASSIN. · USE 9 TIMER TOKENS.	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	DRAW A RANDOM KEY CARD. · YOU SEE WHAT THEY MUST GUESS. · THEY SEE WHAT YOU MUST GUESS.	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	HOW TO PLAY · CAVE FIDLE EITHER OF YOU CAN BE THE CLUE-GIVER ON THE FIRST TURN. · THE CLUE-GIVER GIVES ONE CLUE. · CAVE THEN THE GUESSER MAY MAKE MULTIPLE GUESSES.	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	DIFFERENCES FROM CODENAMES · SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD	p.12	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	SECRETS OF THE KEY CARD · ZERO CLUE	p.8	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	WHEN ALL 9 GREEN WORDS HAVE BEEN GUESSED, SAY SO. · IF YOU FIND ALL 15 AGENTS, YOU WIN. · IF YOU MEET THE ASSASSIN, YOU LOSE. · IF YOU RUN OUT OF TIMER TOKENS, YOU GET A SUDDEN DEATH TURN.	p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Codenames: Duet — Rulebook (corpus doc 350)	PASSING · WITH 3 OR MORE PLAYERS · LIMITED COMMUNICATION	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 1781 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 93 ms · ask 5559 ms · gateway work 5654 ms · total 5654 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3162
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 783
tok/sec: 204.7 tok/sec — 783 output tokens in 3.825 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s 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 278), 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.