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How do I setup the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Cribbagebg-2398-en-1e
For Solitaire Cribbage: 1. The individual player takes a full pack of fifty-two cards, shuffles and cuts [1]. 2. Deal off three cards for himself, two for his crib, and then three more for himself [1]. 3. Taking up the six, sort them and discard for the crib [1]. 4. Cut the pack for the starter [1]. For a standard game of Cribbage: 1. Place the board midway between the players (if three persons play, a triangular board with three sets of holes and three game holes is necessary) [2]. 2. Shuffle the pack, and the player who shuffled last must allow the opponent to cut first [3]. 3. When cutting for the first deal, the first player shall remove no fewer than four cards and not more than half the pack [3]. 4. The second player shall remove no fewer than four cards and shall leave at least four cards [3]. 5. The dealer shall place the pack on the table (board) for the opponent to cut [3].
🔧 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 687 ms · ask 11949 ms · total 12654 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 12654 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 55, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Determine the number of qualifiers (rule 13.2.b). Collect and count scorecards from each table to make sure that all were turned in. Do not write scores in the boxes at the top of scorecards until cross-checking is completed. Initially check the game-points and games-won columns of all scorecards. D", "headingPath": "Method", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 28, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Prior to the turn of the starter card, if only one player discards to the wrong side of the board, that player is permitted to retrieve the card(s) and reevaluate the selection. If all four cards are discovered to be on the pone's side, they shall be moved to the dealer's side, without exposure, unl", "headingPath": "5.1. Placement · 5.2. Exposure", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.031778, "snippet": "The board is always placed midway between the players. If three persons play, a triangular board is necessary. This is provided with three sets of holes and three game holes. When a cribbage board is not at hand, the game may be kept by ruling a sheet of paper into ten divisions, and marking them wi", "headingPath": "[Illustration]", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 31, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "If the dealer plays a card before pegging the two points, the dealer forfeits them. After the starter card has been turned, the deck must be placed on the dealer's side of the board. The play of the cards starts immediately after the turn of the starter card. The pone shall play the first card face ", "headingPath": "6.3. Scoring When the Starter Card Is a Jack (His Heels) · 6.4. Placement of Deck after Cut · 7.1. The Order of Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "If the qualifying round has a cut-for-deal format, the pack is cut to determine which player deals first in the game; the low card wins. If the qualifying round has alternate-deal format, there is no cut to determine the first dealer. In an alternate-deal situation, the tournament director must anno", "headingPath": "1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 54, "score": 0.03031, "snippet": "Recommendations for amendments to these rules shall be submitted in writing to the Rules Committee, which will discuss, prepare, and present all relevant proposals to the board of directors for final approval. Whenever possible, (a) establish individual tables of less than 30 players and (b) avoid s", "headingPath": "14.2. Amendments · General Considerations", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 56, "score": 0.029857, "snippet": "Resolve scorecard discrepancies by referring to rule 12.2. 18.Write the score in the boxes at the top of scorecard when cross-checking is completed. In the event that a scorecard is disqualified or changes position because of an error, contact that player with the relevant scorecards as evidence. Ga", "headingPath": "Method", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.029418, "snippet": "In the first deal of the game, once the deck has been cut and dealing begins, it is assumed the cut for deal was made and play continues. After the cards are shuffled and cut, the dealer distributes one card at a time, face down from the top of the pack alternately to each player, starting with the ", "headingPath": "4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SOLITAIRE CRIBBAGE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "[Illustration]", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 18, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 151 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 151 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 20:17
retrieval — what the search arm returned
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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | Method | p.55 | 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 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 5.1. Placement · 5.2. Exposure | p.28 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | [Illustration] | p.2 | 0.031778 (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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 6.3. Scoring When the Starter Card Is a Jack (His Heels) · 6.4. Placement of Deck after Cut · 7.1. The Order of Play | p.31 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence | p.12 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 14.2. Amendments · General Considerations | p.54 | 0.03031 (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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | Method | p.56 | 0.029857 (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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards | p.20 | 0.029418 (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 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | SOLITAIRE CRIBBAGE. | p.15 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | [Illustration] | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal | p.18 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 687 ms · first delta 10964 ms · total 12654 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 687 ms · ask 11949 ms · gateway work 12654 ms · total 12654 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2711
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 226
- tok/sec
- 138.0 tok/sec — 226 output tokens in 1.638 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s 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
- SERVED — setup-shaped and this game's approved setup checklist is offered above
- pattern that matched
- SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
- matched words (in the normalized question)
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setup
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 73), 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.