Ruling — Anno 1800: The Board Game

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1. The starting player begins, and players take turns one by one in a clockwise direction.[1]

2. During a turn, each player has 1 action available.[1]

3. Possible actions include: Expand (industries, shipyards or ships), Play & activate population cards, Swap population cards, Increase the workforce, Upgrade, Open up the Old World, Explore the New World, Take expedition cards, and Celebrate a festival.[1]

4. Players may also use free actions to activate population cards or activate objective cards at any time during their turn, provided enough resources are available.[1]

5. The game continues in turns until one player plays the last card from their hand, which triggers the end of the game.[2][1]

6. Once the end is triggered, the current round is played to the end so every player has the same number of turns.[2]

7. An additional final round is then played.[3][2]

8. After the final round, influence points are counted to establish the winner.[3][2][1]

[1] RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.4 · GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

[2] RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.10 · END OF THE GAME

[3] RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.16 · GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …

🔧 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 77 ms · ask 19593 ms · total 19672 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 19672 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 16, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "In turns, 1 action each until one player does not have any more hand cards. Play the round to the end. Play an additional last round. Count influence points. Most influence points = winner. Place down population cubes that are predetermined by the workplace in order to produce the depicted resource ", "headingPath": "GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.047883, "snippet": "In Anno 1800 - The Board Game , each player expands their own island by erecting new buildings, shipyard and ships, trading resources and satisfying the needs of the population. By producing or trading goods, cards can be played and yield influence points at the end of the game. The starting player ", "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "As soon as a player has played the last card from their hand, i.e. they do not have any more population cards in their hand, the end of the game is triggered. This player immediately obtains the fi reworks token . The current round is still played to the end so that every player has the same number ", "headingPath": "END OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.045921, "snippet": "Anno 1800 - The Board Game can be quite overwhelming, particularly for your first few games. We would therefore like to share some tips with you that you can also use to offer some guidance to new players. You will probably have the impression that the end of the game is far away. This is because th", "headingPath": "TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Place the gameboard in the centre of the table. Sort all the construction tokens and place them on the gameboard according to their images. The blueprint side with the costs (purple bar) must be visible. Number of construction tokens: 35 industries x 2 of each 4 x shipyard strength 1 6 x shipyard st", "headingPath": "GAME SETUP · This is the personal exhausted area.", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "You normally draw 5 random objective cards at the beginning of the game. However, if you want to steer the game in a specific direction, you can orient yourself towards these suggestions in order to specifically combine the 5 objective cards: For a more complex game with more possibilities, take any", "headingPath": "COMBINATION OF OBJECTIVE CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "By means of the 'Take Expedition Cards' action, players draw expedition cards that can bring additional influence points at the end of the game, but do not yield any other advantages until then. In order to start an expedition, the resources required for this have to be exhausted: 2 exploration toke", "headingPath": "TAKE EXPEDITION CARDS · CELEBRATE A FESTIVAL", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.029572, "snippet": "Linda has a total of three shipyards: two with strength 1 and one with strength 2. She therefore has the choice of building up to three ships strength 1 or up to two ships strength 1 and 1 ship strength 2 in one action. She decides on one exploration ship strength 1 (1 sail, 1 timber, and 1 weapons)", "headingPath": "Ships · PLAY & ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}, {"page": 16, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 389}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 389 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 389 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 0.90087 of 807 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 14:43

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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …	p.16	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT	p.4	0.047883 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	END OF THE GAME	p.10	0.047875 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED	p.14	0.045921 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAME SETUP · This is the personal exhausted area.	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
#6	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	COMBINATION OF OBJECTIVE CARDS	p.13	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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	TAKE EXPEDITION CARDS · CELEBRATE A FESTIVAL	p.10	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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	Ships · PLAY & ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS	p.7	0.029572 (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 28 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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …	p.16	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	END OF THE GAME	p.10	#3	0.047875 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED	p.14	#4	0.045921 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	OBJECTIVE CARDS	p.12	#15	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
#5	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	Ships · PLAY & ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS	p.7	#8	0.029572 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	TAKE EXPEDITION CARDS · CELEBRATE A FESTIVAL	p.10	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	COMBINATION OF OBJECTIVE CARDS	p.13	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT	p.4	#2	0.047883 (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 Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAMEPLAY AND AIM OF THE GAME · TURN OVERVIEW · RESOURCE MANAGEMENT	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	END OF THE GAME	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Anno 1800: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 389)	GAME PLAY · PRODUCTION (page 4) · TRADE (page 5) · SHIFT END (page 5) · EXPAND (industries, shipyards or ships) (page 6) · PLAY AND ACTIVATE POPULATION CARDS (page 7) · …	p.16	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 77 ms · first delta 18503 ms · total 19672 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 77 ms · ask 19593 ms · gateway work 19672 ms · total 19672 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3509
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 228
tok/sec: 201.8 tok/sec — 228 output tokens in 1.130 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 54s 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 318), 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.