Ruling — Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

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To play Euphoria, follow these procedures:

**Setup**

1. Each player starts with 2 worker dice in their player color.[1][2]

2. Group all additional dice together to form a pool of recruitable workers.[1][2]

3. Cover the action at the end of each tunnel with exclusive action spaces.[1]

4. Place progress tokens on each allegiance track's start position.[1]

5. Place a miner meeple on each tunnel on the number corresponding to the number of players.[1]

6. Shuffle the artifact deck, place it on the board, and reveal 4 cards to populate the bazaar.[1]

7. Shuffle market tiles and place 6 facedown on the construction sites.[1]

8. Each player gains 1 reference card.[1]

9. Each player gains a player mat of their preferred color, placing 1 heart-shaped morale token on the far left of the morale track and 1 face-shaped knowledge token on the + on their knowledge track.[1]

10. Place 9 authority tokens (stars) at the upper left of the player mat and the 10th star on the far right.[1]

11. Shuffle the recruit cards and deal 4 to each player; each player chooses 2, placing one face-up as an active recruit and one face-down as a hidden recruit.[2]

12. Place commodity containers (energy, food, water, and bliss) and resource tokens (gold, clay, and stone) on opposite sides of the table.[2]

13. Determine the starting player by having each player roll their 2 worker dice; the highest sum determines the first player.[1]

**Gameplay**

1. On your turn, you must choose exactly one of the following two options:

* **Option 1: Place one available worker on the board.** You may place exactly one available worker (a worker under your control not currently on the board).[3] First, pay the cost of the action (if any), then gain the benefits of that action.[3] If you begin your turn with multiple workers sharing the same number and you must place those identical workers on the same turn, you must lose per worker placed beyond the 1st (place them one at a time).[3]

* **Option 2: Retrieve any/all workers.** Instead of placing a worker, you may use your turn to retrieve any number of your workers from the board (minimum 1; you cannot retrieve workers in the 'Runaway Workers' area).[3] Choose whether to pay the retrieve cost or pay nothing to lose 1 morale.[3] After choosing, roll all retrieved workers at the same time.[3]

2. After you finish your turn, the player to your left takes their turn, proceeding clockwise around the table.[4] Player order never changes.[4]

**Ending the Game**

1. The game ends when a player has placed 9 of their authority tokens.[5]

2. After all players take one final turn, the player who placed the most authority tokens is the winner.[5]

3. In the event of a tie, the first tiebreaker is highest morale, and the second tiebreaker is lowest knowledge.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.3 · Miscellaneous · Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.2 · Miscellaneous

[3] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.4 · GamePlay Overview

[4] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.5 · Morale Track · Knowledge track · Turn Rotation · Morale & Knowledge charts

[5] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.1 · Object of the Game

[6] RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook · p.11 · The Bazaar · End of Game

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🔧 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 89 ms · ask 7662 ms · total 15408 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 7655 ms · generation 7753 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Miscellaneous · Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Miscellaneous", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GamePlay Overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Morale Track · Knowledge track · Turn Rotation · Morale & Knowledge charts", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Object of the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The Bazaar · End of Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 642}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 642 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 642 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 0.89840 of 2313 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 17:03 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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Tips for Teaching/Learning Euphoria	p.12	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
#2	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Morale Track · Knowledge track · Turn Rotation · Morale & Knowledge charts	p.5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	GamePlay Overview	p.4	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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	when to do a knowledge check	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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous · Setup	p.3	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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Construction sites	p.7	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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	The Bazaar · End of Game	p.11	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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous	p.2	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 20 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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	GamePlay Overview	p.4	#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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous · Setup	p.3	#5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Object of the Game	p.1	#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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Morale Track · Knowledge track · Turn Rotation · Morale & Knowledge charts	p.5	#2	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
#5	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Allegiance Track	p.9	#10	0.014286 (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 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous	p.2	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Locations · Worker Activation Tanks · Commodity Areas	p.6	#12	0.013889 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	The Bazaar · End of Game	p.11	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous · Setup	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Miscellaneous	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	GamePlay Overview	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Morale Track · Knowledge track · Turn Rotation · Morale & Knowledge charts	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	Object of the Game	p.1	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia — Rulebook (corpus doc 642)	The Bazaar · End of Game	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 89 ms · first delta 2351 ms · total 15408 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 7655 ms · retrieval 89 ms · ask 7662 ms · gateway work 7753 ms · total 15408 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3494
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 694
tok/sec: 130.4 tok/sec — 694 output tokens in 5.321 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s 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 3s 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 575), 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.