Ruling — 1846: The Race for the Midwest

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Refused — answer could not be verified against the rulebook counted as refused

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Answered Aug 11, 2026 gemma4:26b read 1846: The Race for the Midwest

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Answered Aug 10, 2026 gemma4:26b read 1846: The Race for the Midwest

An answer was drafted but could not be verified word-for-word against the rulebook, so it won't be shown.

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outcome

REFUSED_UNVERIFIED — Refused — answer could not be verified against the rulebook

corpus profile

live,vps

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 90 ms · ask 5248 ms · total 5344 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 5344 ms

retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read

[{"page": 13, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "Plan ahead. Sometimes a player's decisions will affect your own, but often they won't. Planning your corporations' next tile lays, routes, and train purchases can dramatically speed the game. Similarly, in Stock Rounds, a given player can purchase only one certificate per turn. Picking a second choi", "headingPath": "Tips for Faster Play · Credits", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.048131, "snippet": "Starting with the player to the right of the Priority Deal player (2.1) and proceeding counter-clockwise (i.e., in reverse player order), each player in turn draws from the deck of shuffled player and Private Companies as many cards as the number of players plus two, selects one card face down, shuf", "headingPath": "3.2 DISTRIBUTION PROCEDURE · 4. SEQUENCE OF PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "A. Starting with the Priority Deal player, each player in turn (clockwise) may sell stock share(s) before possibly buying one stock certificate (or passes, doing neither of these things). B. A Stock Round ends once all players pass in succession. Assign the Priority Deal card and, in stock price ord", "headingPath": "4.1 STOCK ROUND · 4.2 OPERATING ROUNDS · 4.3 STOCK PRICE ORDER", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "During a Stock Round, players buy and sell shares in railroad corporations, possibly launching new ones. 5.11 Each player, in turn, starting with the Priority Deal player and proceeding clockwise: A. may sell one or more shares, and then, B. may buy one stock certificate. A player who does neither, ", "headingPath": "5. STOCK ROUND · 5.1 OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Pass or sell 1+ shares and/or buy 1 certificate Ends when all players pass in succession Reassign Priority Deal; adjust stock prices Pay Private Co. income Michigan Southern, then Big 4, operate Corporations operate in stock price order (except OR1 done in reverse order) May issue/redeem shares May ", "headingPath": "Stock Round · Operating Rounds (2 / stock round) · RR Operations*", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030415, "snippet": "5.41 Each player may hold up to a number of stock certificates that depends on the number of players and corporations available or in play (see chart). When counting how many certificates a player holds, each Private Company or 20% President certificate counts as one certificate. 5.42 Private compan", "headingPath": "5.4 CERTIFICATE LIMIT · 5.5 ENDING A STOCK ROUND · 6. OPERATING ROUNDS · 6.1 SEQUENCE", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Randomly select and then reveal which companies and corporations are removed. When removing a corporation, return its mat, stock certificates, and tokens to the box, after placing one token face down in its Home City (the city circle whose colored symbol matches its tokens). © 2021 GMT Games, LLC", "headingPath": "2. SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "5.31 After possibly selling stock, a player may buy one stock certificate, subject to the limits below, either: a share from the Stock Market, or a share from a corporation's treasury, or an available President certificate, launching that corporation. 5.32 Buying from the Stock Market: To buy a shar", "headingPath": "5.3 BUYING STOCK", "sharpsignalDocId": 632}]

citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show

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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 632 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 632 boosted

answered-before recall

past answered rulings were found and offered

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

ruling 2729 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
ruling 2597 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0

error detail

answer fence: zero citations

answer fence

refused (UNCITED) — letter density 0.80159 of 252 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)

debug row retained until

Nov 15, 2026 23:04

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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	Tips for Faster Play · Credits	p.13	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	3.2 DISTRIBUTION PROCEDURE · 4. SEQUENCE OF PLAY	p.4	0.048131 (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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	4.1 STOCK ROUND · 4.2 OPERATING ROUNDS · 4.3 STOCK PRICE ORDER	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5. STOCK ROUND · 5.1 OVERVIEW	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	Stock Round · Operating Rounds (2 / stock round) · RR Operations*	p.20	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
#6	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5.4 CERTIFICATE LIMIT · 5.5 ENDING A STOCK ROUND · 6. OPERATING ROUNDS · 6.1 SEQUENCE	p.6	0.030415 (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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	2. SETUP	p.3	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))	297
#8	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5.3 BUYING STOCK	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 69 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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	Tips for Faster Play · Credits	p.13	#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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5.2 SELLING STOCK	p.5	#17	0.012987 (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
#3	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5.4 CERTIFICATE LIMIT · 5.5 ENDING A STOCK ROUND · 6. OPERATING ROUNDS · 6.1 SEQUENCE	p.6	#6	0.030415 (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
#4	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)		p.1	#19	0.012658 (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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	5. STOCK ROUND · 5.1 OVERVIEW	p.5	#4	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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	INDEX	p.23	#13	0.013699 (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 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	4.1 STOCK ROUND · 4.2 OPERATING ROUNDS · 4.3 STOCK PRICE ORDER	p.4	#3	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
#8	RULEBOOK 1846: The Race for the Midwest — Rulebook (corpus doc 632)	3.2 DISTRIBUTION PROCEDURE · 4. SEQUENCE OF PLAY	p.4	#2	0.048131 (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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 90 ms · first delta 4842 ms · total 5344 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 90 ms · ask 5248 ms · gateway work 5344 ms · total 5344 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3635
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 95
tok/sec: 204.3 tok/sec — 95 output tokens in 0.465 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 58s 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: REFUSED_UNVERIFIED — Refused — answer could not be verified against the rulebook
abstain rationale: withheld BY DESIGN: this refusal's text is the drafted answer that failed the quote gate, and nothing unverified serves (D-9) — it is never recorded, here or anywhere a reader can reach

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 565), 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.