Ruling — Black Angel

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How do I take my turn?

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In a game of Black Angel, players take turns in clockwise order.[1] On your turn, you must choose one of two sequences and resolve it step by step.[1]

**Sequence A**

1. Place a Mission card or a Ravager card from your hand face down on one of the six slots around your player board, provided the slot is not already occupied.[1]

2. Activate Technology tiles in the same row/column as the placed card.[1] If you played a Mission card, only tiles of the same color as the card are activated; if you played a Ravager card, all tiles in that row/column are activated.[1] You may activate these in any order, but Advanced Technology tiles are never activated during this process.[1]

3. Select a die from your compartment or buy a die from another player's compartment (if it is not reserved) by paying 1 resource to the owner.[1] You may spend 1 debris from your storage area to flip a die in your compartment to its opposite face before using it, provided the die was not bought from an opponent.[2]

4. Perform an action with the chosen die.[1]

5. Draw a card matching the color of the die used and add it to your hand.[2]

6. Return the die to its supply.[2]

7. At the end of your turn, discard any excess Mission cards so that you have no more than 6 in your hand (Ravager cards do not count toward this limit).[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook · p.6 · SETUP · TURN SEQUENCE · SEQUENCE A · PLAY A CARD AROUND YOUR PLAYER BOARD · Notes: · PERFORM AN ACTION WITH 1 DIE

[2] RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook · p.11 · Activation mission · DRAW A CARD MATCHING THE COLOR OF THE CHOSEN DIE, AND PUT THE DIE IN ITS SUPPLY. 3 · Note: · DEBRIS · Notes: · Example:

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 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 105 ms · ask 4002 ms · total 4108 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4108 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP · TURN SEQUENCE · SEQUENCE A · PLAY A CARD AROUND YOUR PLAYER BOARD · Notes: · PERFORM AN ACTION WITH 1 DIE", "sharpsignalDocId": 992}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Activation mission · DRAW A CARD MATCHING THE COLOR OF THE CHOSEN DIE, AND PUT THE DIE IN ITS SUPPLY. 3 · Note: · DEBRIS · Notes: · Example:", "sharpsignalDocId": 992}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 992 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 992 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 0.92056 of 1070 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 28, 2026 09:23 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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	SETUP · TURN SEQUENCE · SEQUENCE A · PLAY A CARD AROUND YOUR PLAYER BOARD · Notes: · PERFORM AN ACTION WITH 1 DIE	p.6	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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	Hal has at least 1 die in his compartment. · DIE SELECTION · ACTION: DISCOVER TECHNOLOGY · Hal has no dice left in his compartment.	p.15	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
#3	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	CLARIFICATIONS · CREDITS AND THANKS · END OF THE GAME	p.16	0.045541 (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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)		p.5	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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	IMPORTANT: · Example:	p.12	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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	Example: · REROLL YOUR DICE 1 · Notes: · RESET YOUR PLAYER BOARD 2 · ADVANCE THE BLACK ANGEL TOWARD SPES 3	p.12	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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	END OF THE GAME · After the final round is complete, tally your scores as follows: · Notes:	p.13	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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	ACTION: COMMAND YOUR SHIPS · 1. MOVE ONE OF YOUR SHIPS · Notes: · 2. PLACE A MISSION CARD	p.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))	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 35 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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	SETUP · TURN SEQUENCE · SEQUENCE A · PLAY A CARD AROUND YOUR PLAYER BOARD · Notes: · PERFORM AN ACTION WITH 1 DIE	p.6	#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 Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	Hal has at least 1 die in his compartment. · DIE SELECTION · ACTION: DISCOVER TECHNOLOGY · Hal has no dice left in his compartment.	p.15	#2	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
#3	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)		p.5	#9	0.029214 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	CLARIFICATIONS · CREDITS AND THANKS · END OF THE GAME	p.16	#3	0.045541 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	Activation mission · DRAW A CARD MATCHING THE COLOR OF THE CHOSEN DIE, AND PUT THE DIE IN ITS SUPPLY. 3 · Note: · DEBRIS · Notes: · Example:	p.11	#11	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
#6	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	END OF THE GAME · After the final round is complete, tally your scores as follows: · Notes:	p.13	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	VARIANT - PLAYING SOLITAIRE · SETUP · GAMEPLAY	p.15	#19	0.012658 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)		p.5	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	SETUP · TURN SEQUENCE · SEQUENCE A · PLAY A CARD AROUND YOUR PLAYER BOARD · Notes: · PERFORM AN ACTION WITH 1 DIE	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Black Angel — Rulebook (corpus doc 992)	Activation mission · DRAW A CARD MATCHING THE COLOR OF THE CHOSEN DIE, AND PUT THE DIE IN ITS SUPPLY. 3 · Note: · DEBRIS · Notes: · Example:	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 105 ms · first delta 2405 ms · total 4108 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 105 ms · ask 4002 ms · gateway work 4108 ms · total 4108 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3777
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 321
tok/sec: 200.8 tok/sec — 321 output tokens in 1.599 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 42s 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 10s 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 922), 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.