Ruling — Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Geniebg-354544-en-1e

On your turn, you must take 2 actions; you cannot skip an action.[1] You may choose two different actions or the same action twice.[1] The possible actions are:

1. **MANEUVER**:

* First, draw the top card of your deck and add it to your hand.[1]

* You may then move each of your fighters, one at a time, a number of spaces equal to or less than your move value.[1]

* You may choose to BOOST your movement by discarding 1 card from your hand and adding that card's BOOST value to your move value.[2][3]

* When moving, each space moved into must be adjacent to the previous space.[1]

* You may move through spaces occupied by friendly fighters, but cannot end movement in an occupied space.[1][4]

* You may not move through spaces occupied by opposing fighters.[1][4]

* You may move fighters in any order, but must finish one fighter's move before starting the next.[1][4]

* You may move a fighter zero spaces.[1][4]

2. **SCHEME**:

* Choose a scheme card from your hand and play it onto the table, face up.[2][3]

* You must declare which of your fighters is playing the card; they are the active fighter.[2][3]

* You may not play a scheme card if the listed fighters are defeated.[2][3]

* Resolve the card's effect, then place the card into your discard pile.[2][3]

3. **ATTACK**:

* You must declare which of your fighters is performing the attack; they are the active fighter.[2][3]

* You may not take this action if you do not have an attack card in hand or if no fighters have valid targets.[2][3]

* Any fighter may target a fighter in an adjacent space, regardless of zone.[2][3]

* Fighters with melee attacks may only target a fighter in an adjacent space.[2][3]

* Fighters with ranged attacks may target an adjacent fighter or a fighter anywhere in the same zone.[2][3]

* Choose an attack card from your hand and play it face down in front of you; it must be a card your attacking fighter is allowed to use.[2][3]

* The defender may (but is not required to) choose a defense card from their hand and place it face down; it must be a card their defending fighter is allowed to use.[2][3]

* Once both players have chosen, reveal the cards at the same time.[2][3]

At the end of your turn, if you have more than 7 cards in your hand, you must discard down to 7 cards, placing any discarded cards in your discard pile.[1] Then it is your opponent's turn.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook · p.5 · YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)

[2] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook · p.6 · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL

[3] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook · p.6

[4] RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook · p.5

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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 100 ms · ask 4866 ms · total 4967 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4967 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)", "sharpsignalDocId": 833}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL", "sharpsignalDocId": 833}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 833}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 833}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 833 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 833 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 0.88705 of 1930 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 27, 2026 16:05 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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	0.048412 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.5	0.047131 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	TEAM PLAY	p.10	0.046244 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.5	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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	VERSATILE CARDS · STEP 3: RESOLVE COMBAT · WINNING THE COMBAT · DEFEATING A FIGHTER · WINNING THE GAME	p.7	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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.3	0.030018 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	#1	0.048412 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	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
#3	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.8	#14	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
#4	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	HOW TO PLAY · SETUP · SPACES AND ZONES	p.4	#10	0.029437 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.5	#5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	COMBAT EXAMPLE · Genevieve has a few options:	p.8	#15	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
#7	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.6	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	TEAM PLAY	p.10	#3	0.046244 (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 Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	YOUR TURN · ACTION: MANEUVER · STEP 1 : DRAW A CARD (MANDATORY) · DRAWING CARDS · STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL)	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)	STEP 2: MOVE YOUR FIGHTERS (OPTIONAL) · ACTION: SCHEME · DISCARD PILES · ACTION: ATTACK · STEP 1 : DECLARE TARGET · STEP 2: CHOOSE AND REVEAL	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie — Rulebook (corpus doc 833)		p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 100 ms · first delta 1622 ms · total 4967 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 100 ms · ask 4866 ms · gateway work 4967 ms · total 4967 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3995
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 642
tok/sec: 198.0 tok/sec — 642 output tokens in 3.242 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s 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 2s 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 768), 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.