You asked
how many fields do i start with?
Answered counted as answeredThe number of bean fields you start with depends on the number of players: if there are three players, you use the side of the mat showing three bean fields; for four to seven players, you use the side showing two bean fields [1].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
- timings
- search 119 ms · ask 1855 ms · total 1984 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 1984 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 7, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Play the game just like regular Bohnanza : Each player starts with five cards in their hands; On your turn, play through the usual four phases. Only the rules for phase 4, 'Drawing bean cards' , and the end of the game change when you play with extra types of beans.", "headingPath": "playInG The Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "You must plant the first card in your hand (i.e. the one that is completely visible) in one of your fields (see both illustrations to the right). After that, you may choose to plant one more card - the one that is now completely visible - in one of your fields (see both illustrations to the right). ", "headingPath": "Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "When planting, you start or extend the column of cards in the field. If you have to plant a kind of bean you do not have space for, you must harvest a field first (see 'Harvesting Beans'). If you do not have any cards in your hand at the start of phase 1, skip it and go straight to phase 2.", "headingPath": "Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "Based on the number of players, remove the following types of beans and put the cards back in the box: three players : Cocoa Beans four/five players : Coffee Beans six/seven players : Cocoa and Garden Beans If there are three players, turn over your bean field mats so the side with three bean fields", "headingPath": "Number of Bean Fields", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "The starting player is the first active player. After that, players take turns going to the in clockwise order. The starting player keeps the starting player card for the whole game (see 'The End of the Game'). When it is your turn, you play through these four phases in order: Plant Bean Cards from ", "headingPath": "playInG The Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "You can only plant one kind of bean in each field at a time. You are allowed to plant the same kind of bean in two different fields at the same time, but not two kinds of bean in the same field. Put the bean cards in your field on top of each other, as shown to the left.", "headingPath": "Important Rules for Planting Beans:", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "After planting one or two cards in his bean fields (as in the normal game), the player may discard one card from anywhere in his hand face up on the discard pile.", "headingPath": "2. Plant bean cards & discard", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "If there is only one bean card in one of your fields, you cannot harvest it as long as you have another field containing more than one bean card.", "headingPath": "The Bean Protection Rule", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Number of Bean Fields", "sharpsignalDocId": 79}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
- gate not evaluated for this ruling (boost, supersedence, and wrench all off at ask time), and the base-rulebook arm went unrecorded for the same reason — the wrench that would have stored it was off; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=false, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=false
- 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
- Oct 9, 2026 02:33
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | playInG The Game | p.7 | 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 266 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand | p.3 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | Phase 1: Plant Bean Cards from Your Hand | p.4 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 291 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | Number of Bean Fields | p.7 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | playInG The Game | p.3 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | Important Rules for Planting Beans: | p.3 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 271 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | 2. Plant bean cards & discard | p.8 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 162 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | The Bean Protection Rule | p.6 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 145 |
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 Bohnanza — Rulebook (corpus doc 79) | Number of Bean Fields | p.7 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 119 ms · first delta n/a · total 1984 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 119 ms · ask 1855 ms · gateway work 1984 ms · total 1984 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 40s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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 13), 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.