Ruling — Blue Moon City

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How do I play?

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Asked with: Blue Moon Citybg-21882-en-1e

To play the game, follow these steps:

1. Randomly select a first player.[1]

2. The game proceeds in turns, starting with the first player and moving clockwise.[1]

3. On your turn, complete the following phases in order:

* **Movement Phase (Optional):** You may move your Miniature orthogonally up to 2 spaces along adjacent Building tiles, but you may not move diagonally.[1][2] During this phase, you may discard as many cards as you wish to use their Power(s).[1][2][3]

* **Contribution Phase (Optional):** You may contribute to the reconstruction of the Building on which you end your movement (or the Building you are currently on if you did not move).[1][2] If you end your movement on the Courtyard, you may make an offering to the Obelisk.[1][2] To contribute to a Building, you must discard any number of cards from your hand that have a total value equal to or greater than 1 of the Contribution Spaces, and all discarded cards must match the space's color.[1] After satisfying the requirements, place 1 of your Player Markers on the space; this contribution is then unavailable to other players.[1] You may contribute to a Building tile as many times as you like on your turn, but each is a distinct action and you cannot use the same cards or leftover value from a previous contribution for another.[1] During this phase, you may also discard as many cards as you wish to use their Power(s), though once played, they cannot be used towards a contribution unless their special power directly relates to player contributions.[1][3]

* **Reset Phase (Mandatory):** You may discard up to 2 cards, then draw 2 cards more than you discarded.[2]

* **Pass Turn (Mandatory):** Pass the turn to the player on your left.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook · p.7 · Playing the Game · MOVEMENT PHASE · Moving is optional. · CONTRIBUTION PHASE · OR · Contributing is optional.

[2] RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook · p.16 · GAMEPLAY · SCORING BUILDINGS · Player with Most Golden Scales 6 Crystals. · END OF THE GAME · THE VULCA (BLACK) · THE TERRAH (RED) · …

[3] RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook · p.12 · Card Powers · DURING THE MOVEMENT PHASE

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 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 117 ms · ask 6356 ms · total 15812 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 9337 ms · generation 6475 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing the Game · MOVEMENT PHASE · Moving is optional. · CONTRIBUTION PHASE · OR · Contributing is optional.", "sharpsignalDocId": 852}, {"page": 16, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY · SCORING BUILDINGS · Player with Most Golden Scales 6 Crystals. · END OF THE GAME · THE VULCA (BLACK) · THE TERRAH (RED) · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 852}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Card Powers · DURING THE MOVEMENT PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 852}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 852 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 852 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 0.90719 of 1433 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 20:41 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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Playing the Game · MOVEMENT PHASE · Moving is optional. · CONTRIBUTION PHASE · OR · Contributing is optional.	p.7	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Setup	p.6	0.047643 (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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	GAMEPLAY · SCORING BUILDINGS · Player with Most Golden Scales 6 Crystals. · END OF THE GAME · THE VULCA (BLACK) · THE TERRAH (RED) · …	p.16	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
#4	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Crystals & Obelisk · CRYSTALS · THE OBELISK · OFFERING CRYSTALS TO THE OBELISK · END OF THE GAME	p.11	0.045724 (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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Contributing is optional. · RESET PHASE · PASS TURN	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
#6	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Overview	p.4	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
#7	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	additional buildings setup · special buildings · MAIN HALL · Construction Bonus: · Neighborhood Bonus: · THEATRE · …	p.14	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
#8	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Card Powers · DURING THE MOVEMENT PHASE	p.12	0.029462 (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 23 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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Playing the Game · MOVEMENT PHASE · Moving is optional. · CONTRIBUTION PHASE · OR · Contributing is optional.	p.7	#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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	GAMEPLAY · SCORING BUILDINGS · Player with Most Golden Scales 6 Crystals. · END OF THE GAME · THE VULCA (BLACK) · THE TERRAH (RED) · …	p.16	#3	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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Overview	p.4	#6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	SCORING BUILDINGS · AVAILABLE BONUSES	p.9	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	SCORING GOLDEN SCALES	p.10	#16	0.013514 (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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	additional buildings setup · special buildings · MAIN HALL · Construction Bonus: · Neighborhood Bonus: · THEATRE · …	p.14	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Card Powers · DURING THE MOVEMENT PHASE	p.12	#8	0.029462 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Setup	p.6	#2	0.047643 (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 Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Playing the Game · MOVEMENT PHASE · Moving is optional. · CONTRIBUTION PHASE · OR · Contributing is optional.	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	GAMEPLAY · SCORING BUILDINGS · Player with Most Golden Scales 6 Crystals. · END OF THE GAME · THE VULCA (BLACK) · THE TERRAH (RED) · …	p.16	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Blue Moon City — Rulebook (corpus doc 852)	Card Powers · DURING THE MOVEMENT PHASE	p.12	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 117 ms · first delta 3311 ms · total 15812 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 9337 ms · retrieval 117 ms · ask 6356 ms · gateway work 6475 ms · total 15812 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4074
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 412
tok/sec: 132.2 tok/sec — 412 output tokens in 3.116 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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 7s 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 787), 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.