Ruling — Blue Lagoon

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The game is played in two successive phases: the Exploration Phase and the Settlement Phase.[1]

**Exploration Phase**

1. The youngest player starts, and play progresses clockwise.[1]

2. During a turn, a player must place one of their pieces (Settler or Village) on an unoccupied space of the board.[1]

3. A player may place a Settler onto any unoccupied space in the sea, boat-side up.[1]

4. A player may place a piece (Settler or Village) on an unoccupied island space that is next to a piece they placed in a previous turn (in the sea or on land).[1]

5. When placing a piece on land, Settlers are placed land-side up.[1]

6. When a player places a piece on a space containing a Resource or Statuette, they take that item from the board and keep it.[1]

7. The Exploration Phase ends when all Resources (coconaries, bamboo, water, and precious stones) have been collected, or when all players have placed all of their Settlers and Villages on the board.[2]

8. At the end of this phase, scores are tallied and recorded on the Score Pad.[1][2]

**Settlement Phase**

1. To prepare the board, remove all Settlers, any remaining Resources and Statuettes, and any Villages on island spaces featuring a circle of stones.[3]

2. Leave any Villages on other island spaces to allow players to populate islands during this phase.[3]

3. Drop the 24 Resources and 8 Statuettes into the Linen Bag, pick them out one-by-one, and place them randomly on island spaces featuring a circle of stones.[3]

4. All players take back their Settlers, and any unused Villages are discarded to the box.[3]

5. The player to the left of the player who took the last turn during the Exploration Phase starts the Settlement Phase, and play continues clockwise.[3]

6. During their turn, players can only place Settlers on unoccupied spaces next to a piece they placed during a previous turn or a Village left over from the Exploration Phase.[3]

7. Unlike the Exploration Phase, players can only place a Settler in the sea if that sea space is next to a piece they previously played.[3]

8. The Settlement Phase ends when all Resources have been collected or when all players have placed all of their Settlers on the board.[3]

**Scoring and Winning**

1. At the end of the Settlement Phase, scores are tallied and totaled using the same rules as the Exploration Phase.[3]

2. Players add up their scores from both phases.[3]

3. The player with the highest point total wins; in the event of a tie, the player with the most Resources and Statuettes wins; otherwise, players share the victory.[3]

4. Points are awarded for:

* Islands: 20 points for pieces on all 8 islands, 10 points for 7 islands.[2]

* Links: 5 points for each island linked by a chain of pieces.[2]

* Majorities: Points indicated on the board (6, 8, or 10) for the player with the most pieces on an island; ties result in divided points.[2]

* Resources: 5 points for 2 matching Resources, 10 points for 3 matching Resources, 20 points for 4 matching Resources, and a 10-point bonus for collecting all 4 Resource Types.[4][5]

* Statuettes: 4 points for each Statuette in a player's possession.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook · p.2 · Playing the Game · The Exploration Phase · Important!

[2] RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook · p.2 · Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase

[3] RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook · p.4 · Settlement Phase · Ending and Scoring the Settlement Phase

[4] RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook · p.3

[5] RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook · p.3 · Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase · Example of Scoring

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 188 ms · ask 4969 ms · total 5160 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5160 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 813 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 813 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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debug row retained until: Nov 24, 2026 20:38 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 Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Playing the Game · The Exploration Phase · Important!	p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Settlement Phase · Ending and Scoring the Settlement Phase	p.4	0.048387 (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 Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase	p.2	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
#4	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Components: · Introduction · Set-up	p.1	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
#5	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase · Example of Scoring	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))	205
#6	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)		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 Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Credits and Acknowledgments:	p.4	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

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 7 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 Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Playing the Game · The Exploration Phase · Important!	p.2	#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 Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Settlement Phase · Ending and Scoring the Settlement Phase	p.4	#2	0.048387 (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 Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)		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
#4	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Credits and Acknowledgments:	p.4	#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 Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase · Example of Scoring	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
#6	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase	p.2	#3	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
#7	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Components: · Introduction · Set-up	p.1	#4	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Playing the Game · The Exploration Phase · Important!	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Settlement Phase · Ending and Scoring the Settlement Phase	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Blue Lagoon — Rulebook (corpus doc 813)	Ending and Scoring the Exploration Phase · Example of Scoring	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 188 ms · first delta 1247 ms · total 5160 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 188 ms · ask 4969 ms · gateway work 5160 ms · total 5160 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2281
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 786
tok/sec: 202.8 tok/sec — 786 output tokens in 3.875 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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 4s 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 748), 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.