Ruling — Wildlands

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How do I play?

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### Setup

1. Choose a side of the board to play on.[1]

2. Each player picks a faction and a colour, taking the matching miniatures, character cards, action card decks, bases, and shards.[1][2]

3. Attach the bases to the miniatures.[1]

4. Place the miniatures on the character cards.[1][2]

5. Separately shuffle the action card decks.[1]

6. Shuffle the map cards and deal ten map cards to each player.[1][2]

7. Each player secretly assigns one map card to each character.[1][2]

8. Pass the remaining five map cards to the player on your right.[1][2]

9. Place your shards on the spaces matching the new cards you were given.[1][2]

10. Draw seven action cards each.[1][2]

### Turn Sequence

1. The player whose crystal shard is on the lowest-numbered space goes first.[1][2]

2. If you have unrevealed characters, you must reveal at least one at the start of your turn by flipping over its assigned map card and placing the miniature on the matching board space.[1][2]

3. You may play as many action cards from your hand as you like, one at a time, provided you are using characters currently on the board.[3]

4. Each action card can be used to move a character, collect crystal shards, or take a flag action, as long as the card shows that character's symbol.[1]

5. When playing a card, you select one option and forgo the chance to use others.[3]

6. After performing an action, leave a small pause to allow other players the opportunity to play an interrupt card.[3]

7. You may interrupt after someone else takes an action, provided that action is not a reveal or an interrupt.[1][4]

8. Once you want to stop playing cards and revealing characters, you may declare that you are ending your turn.[3]

9. After declaring the end of your turn, you may be interrupted before you draw cards.[3]

10. Draw three new cards from your action deck (up to a maximum hand of seven).[1][3][2]

11. Pass the active player marker to the player on your left.[1][3][2]

### Scoring and Ending the Game

1. The game ends immediately when one player reaches five points through any combination of knocking out other players' characters and/or claiming their own crystal shards.[1][3]

2. If any player loses all their characters, the surviving player with the most points wins.[1][3]

3. In the event of a tie for most points, continue playing until any surviving player has one more point than the others.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook · p.4 · Goal · Setup · Your turn · Game End · Quick Play R ules · Clarifications

[2] RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook · p.9 · Setup · POSITIONING · Your turn · REVEALING CH AR ACTERS

[3] RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook · p.10 · CARD PLA Y · ENDING YOUR TUR N · Ending the Game

[4] RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook · p.14 · INTERR UPT

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 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 216 ms · ask 6895 ms · total 7113 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7113 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Goal · Setup · Your turn · Game End · Quick Play R ules · Clarifications", "sharpsignalDocId": 1089}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup · POSITIONING · Your turn · REVEALING CH AR ACTERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1089}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CARD PLA Y · ENDING YOUR TUR N · Ending the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 1089}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "INTERR UPT", "sharpsignalDocId": 1089}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1089 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1089 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 0.88444 of 1973 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 09:44 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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Playing out of turn · Damage · Line of sight	p.8	0.047938 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	CARD PLA Y · ENDING YOUR TUR N · Ending the Game	p.10	0.047875 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	INTERR UPT	p.14	0.047163 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Goal · Setup · Your turn · Game End · Quick Play R ules · Clarifications	p.4	0.047123 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Setup · POSITIONING · Your turn · REVEALING CH AR ACTERS	p.9	0.046751 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Default Actions · MOVE · CLIMB · CLAIM SH AR DS	p.11	0.045928 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	SHIELD	p.12	0.044796 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)		p.3	0.043935 (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 21 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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Goal · Setup · Your turn · Game End · Quick Play R ules · Clarifications	p.4	#4	0.047123 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	CARD PLA Y · ENDING YOUR TUR N · Ending the Game	p.10	#2	0.047875 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	High Ground	p.8	#12	0.028175 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Map Breakdown · SP A CES · ARROWS · CORES	p.7	#11	0.028382 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	CO V ER · R ALL Y · FL Y	p.13	#9	0.02901 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Setup · POSITIONING · Your turn · REVEALING CH AR ACTERS	p.9	#5	0.046751 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	SHIELD	p.12	#7	0.044796 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	INTERR UPT	p.14	#3	0.047163 (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 Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Goal · Setup · Your turn · Game End · Quick Play R ules · Clarifications	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	Setup · POSITIONING · Your turn · REVEALING CH AR ACTERS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	CARD PLA Y · ENDING YOUR TUR N · Ending the Game	p.10	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Wildlands — Rulebook (corpus doc 1089)	INTERR UPT	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 216 ms · first delta 2441 ms · total 7113 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 216 ms · ask 6895 ms · gateway work 7113 ms · total 7113 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3238
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 612
tok/sec: 132.5 tok/sec — 612 output tokens in 4.619 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s 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 1019), 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.