Ruling — The Quacks of Quedlinburg

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How do I take my turn?

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At the beginning of each turn, the player with the Fortune Teller cards reads the first card aloud and lays it face up next to the Scoring Track.[1] If it is a purple card, it is carried out directly before the turn starts.[1] After the card is read, rats come into play: everyone except the leader can move their rat stones forward in their pots by a number of spaces equal to the number of rat-tails between them and the leader on the Scoring Track.[1]

The Potions Phase follows, where there are no individual turns as everyone prepares their potions at the same time.[2] During this phase:

1. Players draw chips one after another from their bags.[2]

2. Each chip is placed in the pot on a space determined by its value (e.g., a 1-chip goes on the first space after the droplet or rat, a 2-chip on the second, etc.).[2]

3. After each chip is drawn and placed, players decide whether to stop or draw another chip.[2]

4. Players must stop if they have no more chips in their bag or if their pot explodes due to too many white chips.[2]

5. During the last turn's Potion Phase, the start player can command "Stir!", at which point everyone simultaneously takes a chip out of their bag.[3]

The Evaluation Phase begins once everyone has stopped drawing chips or has been forced to stop by an explosion.[4]

At the end of the turn, players may carry out the following actions (repeatable by spending rubies):

1. Trade 2 rubies to move their droplet 1 space forward.[5]

2. Spend 2 rubies to fill up their flasks.[5]

To conclude the turn:

1. Each player takes their rat stone out of the pot and puts it back on the small trivet.[5]

2. The pile of Fortune Teller cards is passed to the next player in a clockwise direction, who becomes the start player for the next turn.[5]

3. The Flame piece is moved ahead to the next space on the Turn Indicator.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook · p.3 · Fortune Teller Cards

[2] RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook · p.4 · Potions Phase

[3] RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook · p.8 · Turn Indicator · Game Variation

[4] RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook · p.5 · Chip Actions · End of Phase · Evaluation Phase

[5] RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook · p.7 · E) Buy Chips · F) End of Turn ·  Move their droplet forward ·  Fill up the flask

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 247 ms · ask 6662 ms · total 6919 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6919 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Fortune Teller Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 189}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Potions Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 189}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Turn Indicator · Game Variation", "sharpsignalDocId": 189}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Chip Actions · End of Phase · Evaluation Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 189}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "E) Buy Chips · F) End of Turn ·  Move their droplet forward ·  Fill up the flask", "sharpsignalDocId": 189}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 189 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 189 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)
debug row retained until: Nov 2, 2026 09:43

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. How much wider that pool was is set gateway-side and is NOT REPORTED for this ruling, and neither are the answerer's final rows — so rulesage has nothing of its own to show beside these.

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 The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Turn Indicator · Game Variation	p.8	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 The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	E) Buy Chips · F) End of Turn ·  Move their droplet forward ·  Fill up the flask	p.7	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
#3	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Fortune Teller Cards	p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	A) Bonus Die · B) Chip Actions · D) Victory Points · E) Buy Chips	p.6	0.046696 (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 The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Setup · How to Play	p.3	0.045921 (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 The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Turn Indicator	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Chip Actions · End of Phase · Evaluation Phase	p.5	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 The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Setup	p.2	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.

the passages the answerer read: NOT RECORDED for this ruling. Any of three things leaves this empty, and they are all different from the answerer having had nothing to read: this ask may never have reached a gateway at all; a multi-book ask keeps each book's own context on that book's own page rather than here; or the gateway build that answered may simply not report it. What this NEVER means is that the answerer read nothing — an answer was composed from passages either way, and their absence here is a gap in what we were told, not in what it read.

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Fortune Teller Cards	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Potions Phase	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Turn Indicator · Game Variation	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	Chip Actions · End of Phase · Evaluation Phase	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK The Quacks of Quedlinburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 189)	E) Buy Chips · F) End of Turn ·  Move their droplet forward ·  Fill up the flask	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 247 ms · first delta 3529 ms · total 6919 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 247 ms · ask 6662 ms · gateway work 6919 ms · total 6919 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3222
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 451
tok/sec: 135.0 tok/sec — 451 output tokens in 3.340 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s ago)
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 107), 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.