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Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Creature Caravanbg-385331-en-1e
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 77 ms · ask 4804 ms · total 4882 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 4882 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 14, "score": 0.046432, "snippet": "Double 4s, 5s, or 6s: Place 1 of the bot' s cubes on the market board in the lowest available trade space. If tied, choose coins. The bot follows normal player rules: it may only have one cube per trade and cannot place on unavailable trades. Double 1 (one set): Move the bot' s caravan marker forwar", "headingPath": "Bot actions in order from top to botttom:", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.044563, "snippet": "This simply indicates that you start with 5 dice. At the start of the game, you only have 1 attack action. This means you can only defeat zombies that have a strength of 5 or 6 without playing cards that have additional attack actions. Remember, you can combine attack actions to defeat one zombie. I", "headingPath": "Card Anatomy and Details · Player Board Actions · Creature Caravan Credits", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "At the start of each turn, each player takes all their dice and rolls them all at once. Players may roll once more before taking any actions if they don't want to keep the first result, but they must re-roll all their dice all at once. Each turn, all players simultaneously place their dice on action", "headingPath": "Turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Some cards have more than one action. You may take either action without taking the other, but if you want to take both actions, you must place dice separately and resolve the actions separately. Action Cost: Sometimes, an action has a food, bag, or coin icon on the bottom left corner of the die sym", "headingPath": "Turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "6. Each player takes a player board, 5 dice, and 1 coin token, then chooses a color and takes all 15 cubes, 12 tents, and 1 caravan token in that color. 7. Each player then draws 8 cards, keeping them secret from the other players. 8. The youngest player places their caravan token first. They may ch", "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Travel: Move your caravan token to an adjacent map square with the indicated land type. You may move in any direction except diagonally (unless a card effect allows it), but you must move to the land type indicated on the travel action. Plains include any squares without a canyon, mountain, or lake.", "headingPath": "Action Types", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "After 12 turns, the game ends. After the final camp has been placed and players gain their rewards from camp placement, players can perform any number of free actions. Then, players count their victory points. (Players may use the scoring pad to facilitate scoring.) The player with the most VP is th", "headingPath": "End of the Game · Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030282, "snippet": "Discard cards in hand to gain food or coins: Discard 1 card from your hand to gain 1 food. Discard 3 cards from your hand to gain 1 coin. Add a creature to your caravan: Choose a creature card from your hand. Pay the cost, listed in the upper left corner of the card, then play the card face up next ", "headingPath": "Free Actions · Optional Rule: Trading", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 777}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 777 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 777 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 0.91872 of 1095 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 23, 2026 16:59 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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Bot actions in order from top to botttom: | p.14 | 0.046432 (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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Card Anatomy and Details · Player Board Actions · Creature Caravan Credits | p.13 | 0.044563 (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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.6 | 0.032787 (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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.7 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Setup | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Action Types | p.8 | 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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | End of the Game · Scoring | p.11 | 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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Free Actions · Optional Rule: Trading | p.7 | 0.030282 (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 24 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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.6 | #3 | 0.032787 (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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Free Actions · Optional Rule: Trading | p.7 | #8 | 0.030282 (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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Card Anatomy and Details · Player Board Actions · Creature Caravan Credits | p.13 | #2 | 0.044563 (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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Creature Caravan Solo Mode Rules · 2. ASSIGN DICE IN ORDER · DICE PLACEMENT ORDER FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: · 3. TAKE DICE ACTIONS: | p.14 | #9 | 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)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Card Anatomy and Details | p.12 | #11 | 0.029387 (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 Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Setup | p.4 | #14 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.7 | #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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Setup | p.5 | #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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.6 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Creature Caravan — Rulebook (corpus doc 777) | Turn | p.7 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 77 ms · first delta 2336 ms · total 4882 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 77 ms · ask 4804 ms · gateway work 4882 ms · total 4882 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2743
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 333
- tok/sec
- 132.6 tok/sec — 333 output tokens in 2.511 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 34s 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 2s 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 713), 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.