Ruling — Weather Machine

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After setup is complete, but before the game begins, players perform a Post-Setup Supply round in turn order, during which each player may perform any number of actions in the Supply Location.[1]

The game is played over a series of rounds, following an initial Supply round.[2] Each round is divided into three phases:

1. **PHASE A: Player Turns**: In turn order, each player takes a turn.[2] On a turn, players perform the following steps in order:

* Use 1 Subsidy tile OR 1 Investment tile.[1]

* Move your Scientist.[1]

* Perform actions.[1]

* Place Research tokens.[1]

* (At any time during your turn, if you have Award tokens on the space to the top-left of your Office, you may place them on any empty spaces of your Office).[1]

2. **PHASE B: Run Weather Machine experiment**.[2]

3. **PHASE C: End of Round**: Turn order is adjusted and possible income is received.[2]

The game continues until the end of the game is triggered, which occurs when any of the following happen:

* A player takes the Nobel Prize.[3]

* The last Experiment tile is placed in the display during Phase B.[3]

* The Government Machine is completed (all Bot spaces are occupied).[3]

* All Research spaces in R&D are occupied.[3]

When the end of the game is triggered, the current round is finished, and one last round is played (skipping Phase C in that final round).[3]

**Final Scoring:**

1. Just before final scoring, all players, in turn order, may place any Research tokens and/or Award tokens they have next to their Laboratory onto empty spaces of their Office to help meet Goal tile conditions.[3]

2. Players may also use Investment tiles to place or flip a Goal tile.[3]

3. Each player scores the following:

* CP according to the position of their marker on each Funding track (the highest value CP above or to the left of the marker).[3]

* 5 CP for each Goal tile on one of their Goal spaces for which they meet the conditions.[3]

* 5 CP if a player has the Nobel Prize.[3]

* CP on the R&D track (3 CP for Black and Orange, 4 CP for Yellow, and 6 CP for Purple).[3]

4. Tiebreakers are determined by: Number of Awards, then Number of published papers, then Number of completed rows in the Office.[3]

5. The player with the most CP is the winner.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook · p.9 · POST-SETUP SUPPLY ROUND · PHASE A: PLAYER TURNS · OR INVESTMENT TILE · 1. Setting a Goal:

[2] RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook · p.8 · Example: · GAME STRUCTURE · EXECUTIVE EXCHANGES · SCIENCE EXCHANGE · CHEMICALS EXCHANGE · MACHINE PARTS EXCHANGE

[3] RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook · p.22 · Example: · END OF GAME · FINAL SCORING · The player with the most CP wins.

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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 210 ms · ask 5071 ms · total 5284 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5284 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "POST-SETUP SUPPLY ROUND · PHASE A: PLAYER TURNS · OR INVESTMENT TILE · 1. Setting a Goal:", "sharpsignalDocId": 679}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Example: · GAME STRUCTURE · EXECUTIVE EXCHANGES · SCIENCE EXCHANGE · CHEMICALS EXCHANGE · MACHINE PARTS EXCHANGE", "sharpsignalDocId": 679}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Example: · END OF GAME · FINAL SCORING · The player with the most CP wins.", "sharpsignalDocId": 679}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 679 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 679 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 0.89760 of 1836 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 24, 2026 22:05 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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	CREDITS	p.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))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · GAME STRUCTURE · EXECUTIVE EXCHANGES · SCIENCE EXCHANGE · CHEMICALS EXCHANGE · MACHINE PARTS EXCHANGE	p.8	0.046394 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	POST-SETUP SUPPLY ROUND · PHASE A: PLAYER TURNS · OR INVESTMENT TILE · 1. Setting a Goal:	p.9	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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	PREPARING FOR THE NEXT EXPERIMENT	p.20	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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	2. MOVE YOUR SCIENTIST · IMPORTANT NOTE: In Round 1 , all · Example:	p.11	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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · END OF GAME · FINAL SCORING · The player with the most CP wins.	p.22	0.030478 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	COMPONENTS · GAME SETUP · LOCATION 5 - LATIV'S OFFICE · LOCATION I - SUPPLY · LOCATION 2 - GOVERNMENT	p.4	0.030366 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	CREDITS	p.2	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

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 38 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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · GAME STRUCTURE · EXECUTIVE EXCHANGES · SCIENCE EXCHANGE · CHEMICALS EXCHANGE · MACHINE PARTS EXCHANGE	p.8	#2	0.046394 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	DRAFTING VARIANT · 2-PLAYER SUMMARY · SETUP CHANGES · GAMEPLAY CHANGES · NEW SCIENTISTS	p.23	#9	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
#3	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	LOCATION 3 - LATIV'S LAB · LOCATION 4 - R&D · Action spaces in 2-player games	p.5	#18	0.012987 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Action spaces in 2-player games · PLAYER'S LABORATORY	p.6	#12	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
#5	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · END OF GAME · FINAL SCORING · The player with the most CP wins.	p.22	#6	0.030478 (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 Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	2. MOVE YOUR SCIENTIST · IMPORTANT NOTE: In Round 1 , all · Example:	p.11	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	POST-SETUP SUPPLY ROUND · PHASE A: PLAYER TURNS · OR INVESTMENT TILE · 1. Setting a Goal:	p.9	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	COMPONENTS · GAME SETUP · LOCATION 5 - LATIV'S OFFICE · LOCATION I - SUPPLY · LOCATION 2 - GOVERNMENT	p.4	#7	0.030366 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	POST-SETUP SUPPLY ROUND · PHASE A: PLAYER TURNS · OR INVESTMENT TILE · 1. Setting a Goal:	p.9	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · GAME STRUCTURE · EXECUTIVE EXCHANGES · SCIENCE EXCHANGE · CHEMICALS EXCHANGE · MACHINE PARTS EXCHANGE	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Weather Machine — Rulebook (corpus doc 679)	Example: · END OF GAME · FINAL SCORING · The player with the most CP wins.	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 210 ms · first delta 2381 ms · total 5284 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 210 ms · ask 5071 ms · gateway work 5284 ms · total 5284 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3674
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 576
tok/sec: 201.8 tok/sec — 576 output tokens in 2.855 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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 6s 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 612), 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.