You asked
How many cards are dealt to each player?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Cribbagebg-2398-en-1e
Depending on the version of the game being played, the number of cards dealt to each player varies: * In five-card cribbage, five cards are dealt to each player [1][2]. * In the six-card game (or when playing with six cards), six cards are dealt to each player [3][4][5][6]. * In seven-card cribbage, seven cards are dealt to each player [7]. * In four-handed cribbage, five cards are dealt to each player [7].
🔧 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 257 ms · ask 11439 ms · total 11715 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 11715 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 20, "score": 0.032787, "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}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.032258, "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": 22, "score": 0.031498, "snippet": "this is confirmed by both players, then the dealer takes the top card from the pack to complete the hand. If either player was dealt the wrong number of cards other than as specified in rule 4.4.a.(2), there shall be a redeal by the same dealer. The player with the wrong number of cards must allow t", "headingPath": "4.4. Incorrect Number of Cards in Hand or Crib", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030886, "snippet": "If the dealer neglects to have the pack cut, exposes a card in dealing, gives too many or too few cards to any player, deals a card incorrectly, and fails to remedy the error before dealing another, or exposes one of his adversary's cards, the non-dealer scores two points by way of penalty. He also ", "headingPath": "[Illustration]", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 32, "score": 0.030777, "snippet": "Each played card shall be positioned so as to overlap that player's previously played cards while keeping the identity of all cards visible. Played cards shall not be turned over before all cards of both players are played and the hands counted and pegged. A single card released by the fingers is co", "headingPath": "7.1. The Order of Play · 7.2. Scoring", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 21, "score": 0.03031, "snippet": "If the dealer exposes a card or cards while dealing, the cards shall be reshuffled and redealt. During the deal, if the pone looks at any of the cards or causes a card or cards to be exposed, there will be no redeal (see rule 4.2.c). If a card is found face up in the pack during the dealing, the car", "headingPath": "4.3. Exposed Cards · 4.4. Incorrect Number of Cards in Hand or Crib", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.029857, "snippet": "shuffle the pack, and the player who shuffled last must allow the opponent to cut first. When cutting for the first deal of a game, the first player shall remove no fewer than four cards and not more than half the pack. The second player shall remove no fewer than four cards and shall leave at least", "headingPath": "3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.02901, "snippet": "* | | points earned . . . | points earned . . . | | cards | during play | in hand or crib | | Jack turned by dealer as starter card | 2 | - | | Jack in hand or crib of same suit as starter card | - | 1 | | combinations: | | | | • two of a kind (pair) | 2 | 2 | | • three of a kind (triple) | 6 | 6 | ", "headingPath": "1.7. Scoring Chart", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "FIVE-CARD CRIBBAGE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "FIVE-CARD CRIBBAGE. · THREE-HANDED CRIBBAGE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "[Illustration]", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "[Illustration]", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "FOUR-HANDED CRIBBAGE. · SEVEN-CARD CRIBBAGE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 223}]
- 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 3, 2026 04:30
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) | 4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards | p.20 | 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) | 1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence | p.12 | 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 151) | 4.4. Incorrect Number of Cards in Hand or Crib | p.22 | 0.031498 (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 223) | [Illustration] | p.3 | 0.030886 (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) | 7.1. The Order of Play · 7.2. Scoring | p.32 | 0.030777 (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) | 4.3. Exposed Cards · 4.4. Incorrect Number of Cards in Hand or Crib | p.21 | 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) | 3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal | p.18 | 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) | 1.7. Scoring Chart | p.16 | 0.02901 (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) | FIVE-CARD CRIBBAGE. | p.13 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | FIVE-CARD CRIBBAGE. · THREE-HANDED CRIBBAGE. | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards | p.20 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence | p.12 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | [Illustration] | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | [Illustration] | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [7] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 223) | FOUR-HANDED CRIBBAGE. · SEVEN-CARD CRIBBAGE. | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 257 ms · first delta 10818 ms · total 11715 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 257 ms · ask 11439 ms · gateway work 11715 ms · total 11715 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3447
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 120
- tok/sec
- 139.2 tok/sec — 120 output tokens in 0.862 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 58s 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 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.