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The game lasts a variable number of rounds.[1] Players take turns in clockwise order, starting with the First Player.[1] On your turn, you must choose one of the following two actions:[1][2]

**Construct a Building**

1. To construct a standard building, verify that you have at least one wooden piece of that type on your player board.[3]

2. Place the Building card in the appropriately colored column of your player board so that the effects are visible.[2][3]

3. Pay the construction cost indicated in the upper-left corner of the card using resources and/or gold; each resource can be replaced by 4 Gold.[3]

4. Place the corresponding wooden building from your player board into a region on the gameboard.[3]

* Your first building must be in a region at the edge of the gameboard.[3]

* Subsequent buildings must be in a region you control or an empty region adjacent to a region you control.[3]

* You cannot have more than one building of the same type in a single region.[3]

* Maritime buildings must be placed in sea regions.[3]

* You cannot construct a building in a region occupied by a barbarian village.[3]

* You may place a building in an empty region at the edge of the gameboard for 3 VP.[3]

5. Benefit from the effects of all building cards in that column, activating them from bottom to top.[2][3]

**To Construct a Temple**

1. Play a Building card from your hand.[1]

2. Ensure you meet the requirements for the specific temple number: for the 2nd temple, you must have 1 card of each color on your player board; for the 3/rd temple, you must have 2 cards of each color, and so on.[4]

3. Pay the construction cost (1 resource of each type, where each resource can be replaced by 4 Gold).[4]

4. Place the card in the appropriate position in the Temple column.[4]

5. Place a wooden temple from the general supply in one of your regions (not in an empty region).[4]

6. Note that you cannot have more than one temple in a city.[4]

**Make an Offering to the Gods**

1. Discard cards to receive aid from the god associated with one of those cards.[2]

2. Draw cards until you have five cards in your hand.[2]

**End of the Game**

The game ends when all temples from the general supply have been constructed or all barbarian villages have been attacked.[5][2]

1. Finish the current round so all players have an equal number of turns.[5]

2. Play a final round where each player can choose one final action.[5]

3. Tally victory points (VP) by adding:

* VP won during the game.[5]

* Points awarded by constructed temples (maximum 12 VP per temple).[5]

* 2 VP to the player (or tied players) who has the most of each resource type (wheat, wood, stone, clay) and gold, provided they have at least 1.[5]

4. The player with the most VP wins.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook · p.4 · Example: · Game Play · A. Construct a building

[2] RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook · p.2 · Overview and Goal of the Game · Building Cards and Corresponding Wooden Pieces

[3] RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook · p.4 · Construct a Standard Building · Example:

[4] RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook · p.5 · Construct a Temple · Example:

[5] RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook · p.6 · End of the Game

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 605 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Example: · Game Play · A. Construct a building	p.4	0.048412 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Overview and Goal of the Game · Building Cards and Corresponding Wooden Pieces	p.2	0.04741 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Standard Building · Example:	p.4	0.046176 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	End of the Game	p.6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Temple · Example:	p.5	0.046154 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	General Clarifications · Alternative Start · Alternative Gameboard Setups	p.8	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
#7	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Building Wildcard	p.8	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
#8	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Blue Cards (Maritime) · Clarifications: · Green Cards (Production) · Clarification: · Yellow Cards (Scientific) · Brown Cards (Civil) · …	p.7	0.029907 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Example: · Game Play · A. Construct a building	p.4	#1	0.048412 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Temple · Example:	p.5	#5	0.046154 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	General Clarifications · Alternative Start · Alternative Gameboard Setups	p.8	#6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Blue Cards (Maritime) · Clarifications: · Green Cards (Production) · Clarification: · Yellow Cards (Scientific) · Brown Cards (Civil) · …	p.7	#8	0.029907 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	End of the Game	p.6	#4	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
#6	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Building Wildcard	p.8	#7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Overview and Goal of the Game · Building Cards and Corresponding Wooden Pieces	p.2	#2	0.04741 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Standard Building · Example:	p.4	#3	0.046176 (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 Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Example: · Game Play · A. Construct a building	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Overview and Goal of the Game · Building Cards and Corresponding Wooden Pieces	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Standard Building · Example:	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	Construct a Temple · Example:	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Deus — Rulebook (corpus doc 605)	End of the Game	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 95 ms · first delta 1659 ms · total 5189 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 95 ms · ask 5092 ms · gateway work 5189 ms · total 5189 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3034
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 705
tok/sec: 202.9 tok/sec — 705 output tokens in 3.475 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 4s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 537), 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.