Ruling — My Father's Work

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: My Father's Workbg-328866-en-1e

To play My Father's Work, follow these procedures:

**Setup**

1. In the app, choose the number of players and a story scenario.[1]

2. Construct the puzzle-piece game board and place the Village Chronicle so the rings along its spine fit into the center space of the board.[1]

3. Place the Scenario Box, Storybook tokens, +50/+100 VP tokens, and the oval Resource Tray nearby as a general supply.[1]

4. Place the Suspicion Marker and Angry Mob token on the Mob Track space indicated by the Storybook.[1]

5. Shuffle Generation I/II Estate Upgrade tiles, place them in a face-down stack on the marked space on the game board, and deal one tile face-up into each of the four empty spots below it.[1]

6. Each player takes an Estate board, a player aid card, a Storage Shed Estate tile (marked with an 'S' on the back), and all pieces of their color (Score Track marker, Insanity Track marker, Creepy Track marker, Plastic Bases, and Journal Track markers).[2][3]

7. Place the Storage Shed on the leftmost Estate Upgrade plot of your Estate.[2][3]

8. Place two Servant pieces (circular base) and one Caretaker (square base) on the Lost space on the game/game board.[2][3]

9. Place markers on the start spaces of the Creepy, Insanity, and Score Tracks.[2][3]

10. Place Journal markers at the start of each Journal Track in the first column.[2][3]

11. Place your Spouse (circular base with spikes), Caretaker (square base), and Self (hexagonal base) pieces on the Quarters space of your Estate board along with your Voting token.[4]

12. Shuffle the Masterwork Experiments and have each player draw one at random to place face-up by their Estate.[4]

**Start of a Generation**

1. All players draw one Experiment each from the A, B, and C decks to form a starting hand of three cards.[5]

2. All players activate any Start of Generation abilities and suffer any penalties from their Estate Upgrades.[5]

3. Each player gains one Resource of their choice (such as a Knowledge cube, Ingredient, or money) via their Storage Shed.[5][3]

**Round Structure and Turn**

1. The app tracks the current round and Generation.[5]

2. At the start of each round, each player draws one Experiment from a deck of their choice.[5]

3. Starting with the Start Player, each player takes one action for their turn in clockwise order.[5]

4. An action consists of placing one or more pieces on a single Location and receiving the benefit and penalties shown there.[5]

5. When playing on your turn, you may choose any piece(s) in your Quarters and place them on a single Location in Town or on your Estate, performing that Location's effect immediately.[6]

6. You may place multiple pieces of a single type on a Location to receive the effect for each piece placed.[6]

7. If placing pieces on a Town Location that already contains any player's pieces, you must pay $1 to the supply as an added cost.[6]

8. There is no added cost to place pieces on an Estate Location, even if occupied, but you may only perform one Estate action each turn.[6]

9. If a player has no pieces available to take an action, they must pass.[5]

10. Once a player passes, they can take no further actions this round.[5]

11. When all players have passed, the round ends.[5]

**End of Round/Generation**

1. At the end of each round and Generation, consult the Storybook app and perform any required tasks, such as retrieving items from the Scenario Box.[7]

2. Tap the appropriate button in the app to move the story forward.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.4 · - S E T U P -

[2] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.6 · Player Setup

[3] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.6

[4] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.7 · Choosing your Pieces

[5] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.10 · Start of a Generation- · Start of a Round- · Round Structure

[6] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.11 · Round Structure · Your Turn · Farmer's Market Different Types of Player Pieces · Servants (and Spouse)

[7] RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook · p.9 · Consulting the Storybook

The sage rests. The game continues.

🔧 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 209 ms · ask 8940 ms · total 9151 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9151 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 637 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 637 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 0.90167 of 2868 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 22, 2026 17:47 UTC

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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Consulting the Storybook	p.9	0.048916 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Scenarios · Saving Your Progress	p.8	0.046696 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Start of a Generation- · Start of a Round- · Round Structure	p.10	0.046671 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Ingredients - Park, Blacksmith, Cemetery, Farmer's Market: · Town Actions · Resource Gathering Locations =	p.13	0.044118 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	- S E T U P -	p.4	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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Choosing your Pieces	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Player Setup	p.6	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
#8	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Goal · My Father's Work App & Storybook	p.4	0.029911 (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 34 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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Player Setup	p.6	#7	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
#2	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Start of a Generation- · Start of a Round- · Round Structure	p.10	#3	0.046671 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Round Structure · Your Turn · Farmer's Market Different Types of Player Pieces · Servants (and Spouse)	p.11	#15	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
#4	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Scenarios · Saving Your Progress	p.8	#2	0.046696 (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
#5	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Choosing your Pieces	p.7	#6	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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)		p.6	#9	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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	- S E T U P -	p.4	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Consulting the Storybook	p.9	#1	0.048916 (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 My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	- S E T U P -	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Player Setup	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Choosing your Pieces	p.7	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Start of a Generation- · Start of a Round- · Round Structure	p.10	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Round Structure · Your Turn · Farmer's Market Different Types of Player Pieces · Servants (and Spouse)	p.11	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK My Father's Work — Rulebook (corpus doc 637)	Consulting the Storybook	p.9	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 209 ms · first delta 2578 ms · total 9151 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 209 ms · ask 8940 ms · gateway work 9151 ms · total 9151 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2857
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 863
tok/sec: 133.3 tok/sec — 863 output tokens in 6.475 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s 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 9s 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 570), 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.