Ruling — Sushi Go!

You asked

How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Sushi Go!bg-133473-en-1e

### Setup

1. Shuffle all cards well.[1]

2. Deal cards to players based on the number of players: 10 cards each for 2 players, 9 cards each for 3 players, 8 cards each for 4 players, and 7 cards each for 5 players.[1][2]

3. Hold cards in hand, secret from opponents.[1]

4. Place the remaining cards in a face-down pile in the center of the playing area.[1]

5. Designate one player as the scorekeeper and use paper and pencil to keep score.[1]

### Playing a Round

1. The game takes place over 3 rounds.[1]

2. To start a round, all players simultaneously choose 1 card from their hands to keep and place it face-down in front of them.[1]

3. If a player has a chopsticks card in front of them, they may call out “Sushi Go!” before others reveal their cards to take a second card from their hand and place it face-down.[3][4]

4. Everyone reveals their chosen cards.[1]

5. Pass your remaining hand face-down to the player on your left.[1] (Note: In a two-player variant, players may alternate passing hands to the right in round 2 [5]).

6. Everyone picks up their new hands and the next turn begins.[1]

7. The round ends when the final remaining card of each hand is passed on; this card is placed face-up with the other collected cards.[3][4]

### Scoring

**During a Round:**

* **Maki Rolls:** The player with the most maki roll icons scores 6 points; the player with the second most scores 3 points.[3] If players tie for most or second, points are split evenly (ignoring remainders).[3]

* **Tempura:** A set of 2 cards scores 5 points; otherwise, it scores 0.[6]

* **Sashimi:** A set of 3 cards scores 10 points; otherwise, it scores 0.[6]

* **Dumplings:** Points are awarded based on the number of cards: 1 card = 1 pt, 2 = 3 pts, 3 = 6 pts, 4 = 10 pts, 5+ = 15 pts.[7][6]

* **Nigiri and Wasabi:** A wasabi card triples the value of the next nigiri.[7] Squid scores 3 points (9 if on wasabi), Salmon scores 2 points (6 if on wasabi), and Egg scores 1 point (3 if on wasabi).[6] A wasabi card with no nigiri scores nothing.[6]

* **Chopsticks:** Scores nothing.[6]

* **Pudding:** These are not scored until the end of the game.[6]

**Ending the Game:**

1. After the third round, score pudding cards.[5]

2. The player with the most pudding cards scores 6 points; the player with the fewest (including those with none) loses 6 points.[5]

3. If there is a tie for most or least, the points/lost points are split evenly (ignoring remainders).[5]

4. In a 2-player game, no one loses points for puddings; only points for the most pudding cards are awarded.[5]

5. The player with the most points after 3 rounds wins; in a tie, the player with the most pudding cards wins.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.2 · 108 CARDS · SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND · USING WASABI

[2] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.7 · A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT

[3] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.3

[4] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.3 · USING CHOPSTICKS · ENDING A ROUND

[5] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.5 · ENDING THE GAME · PUDDINGS · AND THE WINNER IS... · PASS BOTH WAYS · TWO-PLAYER VARIANT

[6] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.4 · ENDING A ROUND · TEMPURA · SASHIMI · DUMPLINGS · NIGIRI AND WASABI · STARTING A NEW ROUND · …

[7] RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook · p.7

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 88 ms · ask 7846 ms · total 11995 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 4059 ms · generation 7936 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 598 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 598 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 0.85177 of 2179 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 16:11 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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	TWO-PLAYER VARIANT · A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT	p.6	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	108 CARDS · SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND · USING WASABI	p.2	0.046898 (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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	USING CHOPSTICKS · ENDING A ROUND	p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING THE GAME · PUDDINGS · AND THE WINNER IS... · PASS BOTH WAYS · TWO-PLAYER VARIANT	p.5	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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT	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
#6	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		p.3	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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING A ROUND · TEMPURA · SASHIMI · DUMPLINGS · NIGIRI AND WASABI · STARTING A NEW ROUND · …	p.4	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 8 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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	TWO-PLAYER VARIANT · A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT	p.6	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	108 CARDS · SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND · USING WASABI	p.2	#2	0.046898 (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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT	p.7	#5	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
#4	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING A ROUND · TEMPURA · SASHIMI · DUMPLINGS · NIGIRI AND WASABI · STARTING A NEW ROUND · …	p.4	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		p.3	#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 Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING THE GAME · PUDDINGS · AND THE WINNER IS... · PASS BOTH WAYS · TWO-PLAYER VARIANT	p.5	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	USING CHOPSTICKS · ENDING A ROUND	p.3	#3	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	108 CARDS · SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND · USING WASABI	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	A WORD FROM GAMEWRIGHT	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	USING CHOPSTICKS · ENDING A ROUND	p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING THE GAME · PUDDINGS · AND THE WINNER IS... · PASS BOTH WAYS · TWO-PLAYER VARIANT	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)	ENDING A ROUND · TEMPURA · SASHIMI · DUMPLINGS · NIGIRI AND WASABI · STARTING A NEW ROUND · …	p.4	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Sushi Go! — Rulebook (corpus doc 598)		p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 88 ms · first delta 2031 ms · total 11995 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 4059 ms · retrieval 88 ms · ask 7846 ms · gateway work 7936 ms · total 11995 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3542
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 776
tok/sec: 133.3 tok/sec — 776 output tokens in 5.823 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s 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 1s 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 530), 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.