Ruling — Hadara

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The game is played over 3 epochs.[1] Each epoch is divided into two phases: Phase A and Phase B.[1]

**Setup**

1. Give each player a player board.[2][3]

2. Shuffle the setup cards and deal 1 to each player, returning unused cards to the box.[2][3]

3. Give each player a reference sheet, 8 bonus tiles (2 per color), 2 gold medals, and 4 wooden markers (1 per color).[2][3]

4. Place wooden markers on the tracks of the player board at the values specified on the setup card.[2][3]

5. Gain coins from the supply equal to the value on your setup card.[2][3]

6. Separate the 25 colonies into 5 piles based on the values shown in the bottom-left corner, shuffle the piles separately, and place 1 colony per player from each pile next to the board.[4]

7. Place colonies with the coin side faceup in stacks by value.[4]

8. Place coins (denominations of 1, 5, and 10) and 10-value markers next to the board.[4]

9. Set aside the score pad.[4]

10. Determine the first player:

* In a 2-player game, the player with the lowest initiative is first for epochs I and III; give the other player 1 coin at the start of epoch I.[1]

* In a 4 or 5-player game, at the beginning of epoch I, give 1 coin to each player who will not be the first player at any point during the game.[1]

* For other player counts, the first player is determined by the lowest-value initiative on the setup card for epoch I, the second-lowest for epoch II, and the third-lowest for epoch III.[1]

11. The first player sets the wheel on the board so each player icon points to a deck.[1]

**Phase A**

1. Each player draws 2 cards from the deck their player icon is pointing at.[1]

2. Rotate the wheel clockwise so each player icon points to the next deck.[5]

3. Each player draws 2 more cards from the new deck, choosing 1 to discard and 1 to buy or sell.[5]

4. Continue turning the wheel and drawing cards until no facedown cards remain on the board.[5]

5. After all players have drawn from each deck, players resolve the following in order:

* Each player gains coins from the supply equal to their income track value.[5]

* Starting with the first player and moving clockwise, each player can take 1 colony they fulfill the requirement for (by plundering for 3 coins or integrating for 1 coin).[5]

**Phase B**

1. Players take turns choosing cards from the discard piles one at a time until no cards remain on the board.[1]

**Game End and Scoring**

The game ends after epoch III.[1][6] Players resolve final scoring by adding points from:

* Colonies (values in the bottom-right).[6]

* Carved statues.[6]

* Bonus tiles showing points.[6]

* Silver medals (half the corresponding track values).[6]

* Gold medals (7 points per set of 5 differently-colored cards).[6]

* Cards (values on each card).[6]

* Remaining coins (1 point for every 5 coins paid).[6]

The player with the most points wins; in a tie, the player with the most leftover coins wins.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.4 · Playing the Game · Card color and epoch · Cost · Values · Points · Phases of an Epoch · …

[2] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.3

[3] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.3 · Player Setup · Setting up the Player Board · Coins · Initiative Value · Track Values

[4] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.2

[5] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.6 · (2b) Sell 1 card · Turn the Wheel · Income · Take a Colony · Plundering/Integrating · Requirement · …

[6] RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook · p.10 · Game End and Final Scoring · Ties

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 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 85 ms · ask 5741 ms · total 5828 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5828 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Playing the Game · Card color and epoch · Cost · Values · Points · Phases of an Epoch · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Player Setup · Setting up the Player Board · Coins · Initiative Value · Track Values", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "(2b) Sell 1 card · Turn the Wheel · Income · Take a Colony · Plundering/Integrating · Requirement · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End and Final Scoring · Ties", "sharpsignalDocId": 567}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 567 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 567 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 0.87830 of 2383 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 26, 2026 10:57 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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Playing the Game · Card color and epoch · Cost · Values · Points · Phases of an Epoch · …	p.4	0.047163 (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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Buy Silver or Gold Medals · Silver medals: · Gold medals:	p.9	0.045235 (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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Player Setup · Setting up the Player Board · Coins · Initiative Value · Track Values	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	(2b) Sell 1 card · Turn the Wheel · Income · Take a Colony · Plundering/Integrating · Requirement · …	p.6	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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.2	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
#7	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.11	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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.8	0.029958 (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 21 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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Playing the Game · Card color and epoch · Cost · Values · Points · Phases of an Epoch · …	p.4	#1	0.047163 (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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.3	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Bonus Tile Space	p.7	#16	0.013333 (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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Game End and Final Scoring · Ties	p.10	#13	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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Feed Your People	p.8	#11	0.02895 (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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Player Setup · Setting up the Player Board · Coins · Initiative Value · Track Values	p.3	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	(2b) Sell 1 card · Turn the Wheel · Income · Take a Colony · Plundering/Integrating · Requirement · …	p.6	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.2	#6	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 Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Playing the Game · Card color and epoch · Cost · Values · Points · Phases of an Epoch · …	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Player Setup · Setting up the Player Board · Coins · Initiative Value · Track Values	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	(2b) Sell 1 card · Turn the Wheel · Income · Take a Colony · Plundering/Integrating · Requirement · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Hadara — Rulebook (corpus doc 567)	Game End and Final Scoring · Ties	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 85 ms · first delta 1833 ms · total 5828 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 85 ms · ask 5741 ms · gateway work 5828 ms · total 5828 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3552
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 793
tok/sec: 201.2 tok/sec — 793 output tokens in 3.942 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 58s 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 499), 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.