You asked
How do I setup the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Everdell: Pearlbrookbg-259996-en-1e
To set up the normal game with these additions, follow these steps: 1. Place the River board to the side of the main board [1]. 2. Place the pearl tokens on the Shoal spot on the board [1]. 3. Place the Wonder boards beneath the Ever Tree, covering the costs for the basic Events (the basic Events will not be used with this expansion) [1]. 4. Place the Wonders on their spots on the boards [1]. 5. Shuffle the River Destination Citizen cards and set aside 2 of them, unseen [1]. 6. Do the same with the River Destination Location cards [1]. 7. Shuffle those 4 cards together, unseen, and place 1 facedown on each of the 4 spots on the River board [1]. 8. Place 1 pearl on top of each of these facedown River Destination cards [1]. 9. Place the remaining River cards back in the box unseen [1]. 10. Shuffle the new Critter and Construction cards with the #@ symbol into the deck before dealing out cards [1]. 11. When setting up the special Events, shuffle the Adornment cards and deal 2 facedown to each player; return the rest to the box, unseen [1].
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🔧 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 253 ms · ask 4570 ms · total 4832 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 4832 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
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- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 221}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of)
- layering — route
- not layered — one pooled read, because one book was in scope and there is nothing to split
- 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 20:46
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 TWO-ARM fuse (full-text + vector), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.03279 — both arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). Measured healthy band on this fuse: 0.016–0.033. 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 Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | SETUP | p.4 | 0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — every arm ranked it #1) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | Rugwort returns! · SETUP · GAMEPLAY | p.7 | 0.032002 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | SHOAL · ADVERTISEMENT! · ADORNMENTS · WONDERS · PEARLS | p.6 | 0.032002 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | ADORNMENTS: | p.8 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | GAMEPLAY | p.8 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | OVERVIEW | p.2 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | CREDITS | p.8 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 290 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | THE RIVER · SHOAL | p.5 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse) | 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 Everdell: Pearlbrook — Rulebook (corpus doc 221) | SETUP | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 253 ms · first delta 2975 ms · total 4832 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 253 ms · ask 4570 ms · gateway work 4832 ms · total 4832 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2824
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 269
- tok/sec
- 149.7 tok/sec — 269 output tokens in 1.797 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 25s 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
- NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
- 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 10), 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.