Ruling — Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze

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Tales to Amaze is played over a series of rounds, with players and enemies taking turns according to the initiative deck.[1][2]

**Turn Sequence**

1. At the start of each turn, reveal the top card of the initiative deck and identify which player or enemy it belongs to.[1][2]

2. Resolve any effects on the initiative card that resolve when revealed, and always follow any "RIGHT NOW" text immediately.[1][2]

3. If the card belongs to a player, that player takes a turn by taking two actions among Maneuver, Scheme, and Attack.[3][4]

4. If the card belongs to an enemy, the enemy takes a turn.[1][2]

5. After resolving the turn, draw the next initiative card.[1][2]

6. Place every newly revealed initiative card to the right of the previous card, creating a row of face-up cards.[1][2]

7. If a minion or player is defeated, remove the corresponding initiative card from play (if already revealed, remove it from the row; if not, remove it the next time it is revealed).[1][2]

8. After the last card in the initiative deck is played and all fighters have taken their turns, resolve all end-of-round effects (found at the bottom of the initiative cards) one at a time from left to right.[5]

9. After resolving end-of-round effects, shuffle the initiative cards together to start the next round.[5] (Note: certain minions like the Loveland Frog or Ant Queen may add new cards to the deck during this shuffle).[5]

**Combat**

* **Player Attacking an Enemy:**

1. Play an attack card face down on the table.[3][4]

2. Play the top card of the enemy's deck as a defense card face down on the table.[3][4]

3. Reveal both cards simultaneously and resolve combat.[3][4]

4. Use the attack value if attacking and the defense value if defending.[6]

5. If the attack deals combat damage, reduce the enemy's health on its health dial.[4]

6. Resolve any effects in the box with the defense value.[3][4]

7. Resolve any after-combat effects.[3][4]

8. Put both played cards in their respective discard piles.[3][4]

* **Enemy Attacking a Player:**

1. Place the top card of the enemy's deck on the table face down.[5]

2. The defender may choose a defense card from their hand and play it face down in front of them.[5]

3. Reveal both cards simultaneously and resolve the attack.[5]

4. The enemy's card indicates its attack value; if the card has an effect, resolve it.[5]

5. Resolve combat as normal.[5]

6. Put the played cards in their respective discard piles.[5]

**Game End**

The game ends when the players win by defeating the villain, or when the players lose because the villain achieves its objective four times or all of the players' fighters are defeated.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.8 · PLAYING THE GAME · ADDITIONAL ENEMY TURNS

[2] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.8

[3] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.9 · PLAYER TURNS · ATTACKING AN ENEMY · DECEPTION CARDS

[4] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.9

[5] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.11 · ENEMY ATTACKS · PLAYER ELIMINATION · END OF THE ROUND · END OF GAME

[6] RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook · p.15

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 502 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 0.88388 of 2196 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 14:21

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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYING THE GAME · ADDITIONAL ENEMY TURNS	p.8	0.047619 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.9	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
#4	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	ENEMY ATTACKS · PLAYER ELIMINATION · END OF THE ROUND · END OF GAME	p.11	0.046394 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYER TURNS · ATTACKING AN ENEMY · DECEPTION CARDS	p.9	0.046175 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.15	0.044002 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.11	0.030282 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.5	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 26 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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYING THE GAME · ADDITIONAL ENEMY TURNS	p.8	#2	0.047619 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.8	#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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.15	#6	0.044002 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	SETUP	p.4	#10	0.02885 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	FEELING COMPETITIVE? · CREDITS · Unmatched Adventures Game Design: Darren Reckner · ANT QUEEN	p.16	#12	0.027885 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	ENEMY ATTACKS · PLAYER ELIMINATION · END OF THE ROUND · END OF GAME	p.11	#4	0.046394 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYER TURNS · ATTACKING AN ENEMY · DECEPTION CARDS	p.9	#5	0.046175 (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 Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.9	#3	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYING THE GAME · ADDITIONAL ENEMY TURNS	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	PLAYER TURNS · ATTACKING AN ENEMY · DECEPTION CARDS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)	ENEMY ATTACKS · PLAYER ELIMINATION · END OF THE ROUND · END OF GAME	p.11	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze — Rulebook (corpus doc 502)		p.15	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 78 ms · first delta 1924 ms · total 5389 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 5309 ms · gateway work 5389 ms · total 5389 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3349
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 702
tok/sec: 205.0 tok/sec — 702 output tokens in 3.425 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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 433), 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.