Ruling — Bohnanza

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who goes first

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Asked with: Bohnanzabg-11-en-1e

The starting player is the first active player.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook · p.3 · playInG The Game

🔧 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 83 ms · ask 1357 ms · total 1442 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 1442 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 3, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The starting player is the first active player. After that, players take turns going to the in clockwise order. The starting player keeps the starting player card for the whole game (see 'The End of the Game'). When it is your turn, you play through these four phases in order: Plant Bean Cards from ", "headingPath": "playInG The Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Play the game just like regular Bohnanza : Each player starts with five cards in their hands; On your turn, play through the usual four phases. Only the rules for phase 4, 'Drawing bean cards' , and the end of the game change when you play with extra types of beans.", "headingPath": "playInG The Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Unlike in the base game, every player draws one card from the draw pile , adding them to their hands behind the last card. Start with the active player and draw cards in a clockwise direction.", "headingPath": "Phase 4: Draw Bean Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The player may plant or discard the bean cards his opponent left as an offer in step 3 of his turn. This is omitted by the starting player on his first turn.", "headingPath": "1. Plant or discard offered bean cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "The active player draws the three topmost cards from the draw deck and puts them face up on the table so both players can see them. If the topmost card on the discard pile matches any of the cards just drawn, the player adds it to them. He does the same with the new topmost card from the discard pil", "headingPath": "3. Draw, plant, and offer beans", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "When planting, you start or extend the column of cards in the field. If you have to plant a kind of bean you do not have space for, you must harvest a field first (see 'Harvesting Beans'). If you do not have any cards in your hand at the start of phase 1, skip it and go straight to phase 2.", "headingPath": "Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "If there are three players, the game ends when the draw pile runs out for the second time . If there are four or more players, the game ends when the draw pile runs out for the third time, as usual.", "headingPath": "The End of the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "d 02.05.16 09:02 Anna 20 10 2 4 4 3 6 5 5 8 3 6 6 10 6 7 Gold coin stack Bohnenfelder_160428.ind 8 9 5 3 6 7 Chili Bean Green Bean 14 Black-EyEd BEan 14 18 Green Bean Blue Bean 1", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "playInG The Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 79 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 79 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 0.90698 of 43 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 17, 2026 05:57

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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	playInG The Game	p.3	0.032787 (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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	playInG The Game	p.7	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))	266
#3	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 4: Draw Bean Cards	p.7	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))	192
#4	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	1. Plant or discard offered bean cards	p.8	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))	157
#5	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	3. Draw, plant, and offer beans	p.8	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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand	p.4	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))	291
#7	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The End of the Game	p.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))	198
#8	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)		p.3	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))	178

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 20 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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	playInG The Game	p.3	#1	0.032787 (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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	1. Plant or discard offered bean cards	p.8	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand	p.3	#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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The End of the Game	p.7	#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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	3. Draw, plant, and offer beans	p.8	#5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The end of The Game	p.6	#11	0.014085 (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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	The Bean duel for 2 players	p.8	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand	p.4	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79)	playInG The Game	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 83 ms · first delta 1355 ms · total 1442 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 83 ms · ask 1357 ms · gateway work 1442 ms · total 1442 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1274
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 12
tok/sec: 190.5 tok/sec — 12 output tokens in 0.063 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s 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 13), 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.