Ruling — My Little Scythe

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How do I play?

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Asked with: My Little Scythebg-226320-en-1e

1. Select an animal kingdom and place your Base Camp Tile on a base camp position according to player count.[1]

2. Claim a player mat, matching Seeker miniatures (2 per player), and 1 Action token.[1]

3. Place 4 Trophies on the trophy spaces of your player mat.[1]

4. Place your Friendship Token on level 3 of the Friendship Track and your Pie Token on level 3 of the Pie Track.[1]

5. Shuffle all Quest cards and Magic Spell cards into decks and place them on the board.[1]

6. Give 1 Magic Spell card to each player, kept secret.[1]

7. Shuffle Power Up Tiles (Move & Make) and place piles face down on the board.[1]

8. Randomly orient the Setup Tile face down on the center Castle Everfree space, then turn it over.[1]

9. Populate the sets of 3 spaces in front of each active player's Base Camp Tile with resources depicted on the tile, then discard the tile.[1]

10. Place both Seekers on your Base Camp Tile.[1]

11. Shuffle the 8 Personality Cards and give 1 to each player, kept secret.[1]

12. Randomize action tokens to determine the first player.[1]

13. On your turn, select and execute an action on your player mat by placing your action token on a different action than the previous turn.[2]

14. Choose one of the following actions:

* Move: Move both Seekers; you may move up to 2 spaces without carrying resources, or up to 1 space while transporting any number of apples or gems.[2]

* Seek: Roll 4 dice (red for apples, blue for gems, gold for quests) to discover tokens in specific regions of Pomme.[2][3]

* Make: Pay resources to gain benefits, such as Baking Pies (2 apples for 2 pies), Conjuring a Spell (2 gems for a Magic Spell card), or Powering Up (1 gem and 1 apple to upgrade a section).[4]

15. After taking 1 action and possibly earning up to 1 trophy, play proceeds clockwise.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook · p.3 · Search Dice · Base Camp positions: 1 - 6 players

[2] RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook · p.4 · PLAYER MAT · MOVE

[3] RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook · p.6 · SEEK

[4] RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook · p.6 · MAKE

The table has its answer — dice up.

🔧 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 234 ms · ask 6060 ms · total 6298 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6298 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Search Dice · Base Camp positions: 1 - 6 players", "sharpsignalDocId": 844}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYER MAT · MOVE", "sharpsignalDocId": 844}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SEEK", "sharpsignalDocId": 844}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MAKE", "sharpsignalDocId": 844}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 844 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 844 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 0.89009 of 1474 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 00:57 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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	PLAYER MAT · MOVE	p.4	0.04866 (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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	WANT TO WATCH A HOW-TO-PLAY VIDEO? · WANT THE RULES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? · HAVE A QUESTION WHILE PLAYING OR A STORY TO SHARE? · NEED A REPLACEMENT PART? · WANT TO STAY IN TOUCH?	p.8	0.048652 (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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	Search Dice · Base Camp positions: 1 - 6 players	p.3	0.047379 (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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	MAKE	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	Players prove their worth by quickly earning trophies:	p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	SEEK	p.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))	300
#7	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	QUESTS · BASE CAMPS	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
#8	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	-Grandmother	p.1	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))	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 12 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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	PLAYER MAT · MOVE	p.4	#1	0.04866 (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 My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	MAKE	p.6	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	PIE FIGHT	p.5	#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 My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	-Grandmother	p.1	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	DELIVERY · PORTALS	p.4	#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
#6	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	SEEK	p.6	#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
#7	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	Search Dice · Base Camp positions: 1 - 6 players	p.3	#3	0.047379 (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 My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	WANT TO WATCH A HOW-TO-PLAY VIDEO? · WANT THE RULES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? · HAVE A QUESTION WHILE PLAYING OR A STORY TO SHARE? · NEED A REPLACEMENT PART? · WANT TO STAY IN TOUCH?	p.8	#2	0.048652 (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 Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	Search Dice · Base Camp positions: 1 - 6 players	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	PLAYER MAT · MOVE	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	SEEK	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK My Little Scythe — Rulebook (corpus doc 844)	MAKE	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 234 ms · first delta 2385 ms · total 6298 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 234 ms · ask 6060 ms · gateway work 6298 ms · total 6298 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3324
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 478
tok/sec: 124.7 tok/sec — 478 output tokens in 3.833 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s 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 10s 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 779), 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.