Ruling — Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

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The game is played over two different phases.[1]

**Phase 1**

1. Players alternate taking turns.[1]

2. On your turn, choose one of two options:

* Place your Cobblestone tile face up on an empty square on the board, choosing its orientation, ensuring it fully occupies just one square.[1]

* Add a building piece to your reserve by taking it from the common pool and placing it in front of you.[1]

3. If you place a tile, draw the next tile from your pile and look at it without letting your opponent see it.[1]

4. The first player to place all 8 of their tiles may pass their turns and wait for the next phase, or continue taking building pieces until the other player has placed all eight of their tiles.[1]

5. This phase ends when the last of the 16 Cobblestone tiles is placed on the board.[1]

**Phase 2**

1. Players alternate taking turns.[2] The first player to place all 8 Cobblestone tiles in Phase 1 takes the first turn in the second phase.[2]

2. On your turn, choose one of two options:

* Place one of the buildings in your reserve on the Cobblestone tiles so that it occupies only free spaces of your color or free mixed-color spaces.[2] Buildings cannot be placed on Streetlight spaces.[2] When you place a building, put one of your chimneys on top of it to show ownership.[2]

* Activate an Action postcard by choosing one of the face-up postcards next to the board and using the action shown.[2] Then, flip the card over and place one of your Action tokens on top of it to show it has been used; once used, no one can use that Action postcard again for the rest of the game.[2] Note that you may activate an Action postcard without performing its action.[2]

3. The second phase ends when neither player can place any more buildings and all 8 Action tokens have been used.[2]

**Scoring**

Once the two phases are completed, players add up their victory points:[3]

1. **Illuminated Buildings**: Multiply the size of each building by the number of Streetlights that cast light upon it.[3] A Streetlight illuminates the four spaces around it, but not diagonal spaces.[3] A Streetlight can illuminate multiple buildings, but only counts once for each building.[3] Buildings not lit by any Streetlights award no points.[3]

2. **Large/ST Building Group**: Determine the size of the largest single group of buildings (buildings form a group if they are in contact via at least one side; diagonal contact does not count).[3] Score 1 victory point for each space the largest group occupies.[3]

3. **Unbuilt Buildings**: Subtract 3 points for every building piece reserved in the first phase but not placed on the board during the second phase.[3]

4. **Action Postcards**: Check if any marked Action postcards grant additional victory points.[3]

The player with the most points wins.[3] In the event of a tie, the player with the most visible free spaces of their color on the Cobblestone tiles wins.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook · p.4 · Setting Up the Game · ow to Play · PLACING OF COBBLESTONE TILES AND AWARDING BUILDINGS

[2] RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook · p.5 · PLACE BUILDINGS AND TAKE ACTIONS

[3] RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook · p.5 · Scoring

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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debug row retained until: Nov 25, 2026 23:40 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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Setting Up the Game · ow to Play · PLACING OF COBBLESTONE TILES AND AWARDING BUILDINGS	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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	LEVITATION · METROPO/LITAIN · JARDIN DES PLANTES · SACRÉ COEUR · LE PEINTRE · CHARTIER · …	p.8	0.047123 (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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	PLACE BUILDINGS AND TAKE ACTIONS	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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Scoring	p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Credits · MOU/LIN ROUGE · FONTAINE DES MERS · LE PENSEUR · LA GRANDE /LUMIÈRE	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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Scoring Exampl e	p.6	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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	16 SQUARED COBBLE/STONE TILES · 12 BUILDING PIECES	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 9 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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	9 SPECIAL PIECES : · Setting Up the Game	p.3	#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 Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	PLACE BUILDINGS AND TAKE ACTIONS	p.5	#4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	LEVITATION · METROPO/LITAIN · JARDIN DES PLANTES · SACRÉ COEUR · LE PEINTRE · CHARTIER · …	p.8	#3	0.047123 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	16 SQUARED COBBLE/STONE TILES · 12 BUILDING PIECES	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
#5	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Credits · MOU/LIN ROUGE · FONTAINE DES MERS · LE PENSEUR · LA GRANDE /LUMIÈRE	p.7	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Scoring Exampl e	p.6	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Scoring	p.5	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Setting Up the Game · ow to Play · PLACING OF COBBLESTONE TILES AND AWARDING BUILDINGS	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Setting Up the Game · ow to Play · PLACING OF COBBLESTONE TILES AND AWARDING BUILDINGS	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	PLACE BUILDINGS AND TAKE ACTIONS	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Paris: La Cité de la Lumière — Rulebook (corpus doc 788)	Scoring	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 93 ms · first delta 1171 ms · total 4637 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 93 ms · ask 4543 ms · gateway work 4637 ms · total 4637 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2978
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 691
tok/sec: 202.1 tok/sec — 691 output tokens in 3.419 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 31s 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 9s 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 723), 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.