Ruling — Jamaica

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Jamaicabg-28023-en-1e

**Setup**

1. Resources are sorted by type to form the Bank and placed within reach of all players.[1][2]

2. Place the 9 Treasure Pirate Lairs tokens on the (skull-like rocks).[3]

3. Randomly take 9 of the 12 Treasure cards, shuffle them, and place them in a facedown pile on the right side of the Navigation Box; return the remaining 3 cards to the game box.[3]

4. Place the Combat die on the fortress.[3]

5. Each player places their ship in their color on the Port Royal space.[1][2]

6. Each player places 3 Food and 3 Doubloon tokens in two of their Holds.[1][2]

7. Each player takes the first 3 Action cards from their draw pile and holds them so they can see the possible actions.[1]

8. Each player receives a personal board representing the 5 Holds of their ship.[3]

9. Each player shuffles their Action card deck and places it facedown above their Holds to form their draw pile.[3]

10. Designate one player at random to be the Captain for the first round; they receive the Compass marker and the 2 Action dice.[1]

**Game Round**

1. The Captain rolls the Action dice.[4][5]

2. The Captain chooses the order in which they place the dice on the Navigation Box after looking at the 3 Action cards in their hand.[4][5]

3. Once the dice are placed, each player secretly chooses the card from their hand they wish to play and places it facedown across their discard pile.[4][5]

4. Players wait until everybody has chosen their card.[4]

5. The Captain flips their card over and performs both actions: first the morning action (associated with the left die/sun) and then the evening action (associated with the right die/moon).[5]

6. In turn, other players flip their cards over and perform both actions in accordance with the dice placed by the Captain.[5]

7. After all players have performed their actions, players take the first card from their draw pile to bring their hand back to 3 cards.[4][5]

8. Played cards remain faceup on the discard pile.[4][5]

9. The Compass marker goes to the player on the left, who becomes the new Captain.[4][5]

10. A new round begins.[4][5]

**Combat**

1. When a player ends their movement on a space occupied by an opponent's ship, they must engage in combat.[6]

2. The player who lands on the occupied space is the attacker.[6]

3. The attacker starts the battle by spending as many Gunpowder tokens as they wish (if they have any).[6]

4. The attacker rolls the Combat die and adds the die value to the number of Gunpowder tokens spent to obtain their firepower.[6]

5. If the attacker rolls the star, their opponent cannot defend themselves, and the attacker wins immediately.[6]

6. The defender then has the turn to spend Gunpowder tokens if they wish and roll the Combat die to obtain their own firepower.[6]

7. If the defender rolls the star, they win the battle regardless of the attacker's firepower.[6]

8. The player with the higher firepower wins the battle; in the event of a tie, nothing happens.[6]

9. If the attacker rolls the star, they do not recover the Gunpowder they spent.[7]

10. You can force an opponent to reroll if they roll the star using the Sabre's power immediately after the die roll.[7]

**Ending the Game**

1. As soon as a player reaches Port Royal, they stop there and any remaining evening action is ignored.[7]

2. Players complete the current round, then the game is over.[7]

3. Players tally their points.[7]

4. The player with the highest score wins.[7]

5. In the event of a tie, the player furthest along in the race wins; if still tied, the tied players share the victory.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.5

[2] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.5 · ACTION CARDS

[3] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.4 · ACTION CARDS

[4] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.6 · ACTION CARDS · END OF THE ROUND · CARD CHOICE

[5] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.6

[6] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.8 · CARD CHOICE · COMPARISON · DEFENSE

[7] RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook · p.10 · Lady Beth · FINISH SPACE · VICTORY · Loading · Movement · TALLYING · …

Settled. Play on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 196 ms · ask 8588 ms · total 8785 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8785 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 646 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 646 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 0.89538 of 2925 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 19:31 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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.6	0.048916 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS · END OF THE ROUND · CARD CHOICE	p.6	0.048139 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.4	0.046642 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.5	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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.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))	268
#6	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	CARD CHOICE · COMPARISON · DEFENSE	p.8	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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	· Saran's Sabre:	p.11	0.029469 (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 17 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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS · END OF THE ROUND · CARD CHOICE	p.6	#2	0.048139 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.5	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	CARD CHOICE · COMPARISON · DEFENSE	p.8	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.5	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	· Saran's Sabre:	p.11	#8	0.029469 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	Lady Beth · FINISH SPACE · VICTORY · Loading · Movement · TALLYING · …	p.10	#9	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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.6	#1	0.048916 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.4	#3	0.046642 (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 Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	ACTION CARDS · END OF THE ROUND · CARD CHOICE	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	CARD CHOICE · COMPARISON · DEFENSE	p.8	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Jamaica — Rulebook (corpus doc 646)	Lady Beth · FINISH SPACE · VICTORY · Loading · Movement · TALLYING · …	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 196 ms · first delta 2011 ms · total 8785 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 196 ms · ask 8588 ms · gateway work 8785 ms · total 8785 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2197
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 906
tok/sec: 134.7 tok/sec — 906 output tokens in 6.726 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 579), 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.