You asked
What do I take during setup at the start of the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Wingspanbg-266192-en-1e
Each player is given: 1. A player mat [1] 2. 8 action cubes of one color [1] 3. 2 random bonus cards [1] 4. 5 bird cards [1] 5. 1 of each food token type [1]
Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings
🔧 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 229 ms · ask 9197 ms · total 9438 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 9438 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "score": 0.048147, "snippet": "This is a detailed rulebook, but you can learn the entire game by using the Swift-Start cards and guides. We recommend using these guides for your first game. 6/15/21 7:35 AM TIP: When selecting bird cards, think about how they will help you get more cards or food early in the game. Brown powers can", "headingPath": "Player Setup · 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards:", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.041437, "snippet": "82cm + WS_EE_BirdSwiftStart_r4.indd 3WS_EE_BirdSwiftStart_r4.indd 3 6/9/21 4:20 PM6/9/21 4:20 PM Vaux’s Swift Chaetura vauxi William Sansom Vaux was a wealthy mineralogist and naturalist. 2 WHEN ACTIVATED: Tuck 1 from your hand behind this bird. If you do, gain 1 from the supply. 31cm WS_EE_BirdSwif", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030415, "snippet": "1 . Bird cards. Shuffle the bird cards into a deck. Place it next to the bird tray, then populate the tray with 3 face-up bird cards. Supply. Place all food and egg tokens in the supply. These are tokens accessible to all players. Birdfeeder. Toss the food dice into the birdfeeder dice tower. Goal b", "headingPath": "Player Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029206, "snippet": "3 This is a detailed rulebook, but you can learn the entire game by using the Swift-Start cards and guides. We recommend using these guides for your first game. TIP: When selecting bird cards, think about how they will help you get more cards or food early in the game. Brown powers can be especially", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.028612, "snippet": "They can be very helpful later in the game, so it’s good to get used to using them now. TURN 2. LAY EGGS a. Place your action cube in the first space of your “lay eggs” row (the grassland). b. L ay 2 eggs: Take 2 eggs from the supply and place them on your hawk. • When you lay eggs, they can go on a", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.028205, "snippet": "Food is primarily used to play bird cards. Your options for which food to gain are shown on the dice in the birdfeeder, which will repeatedly get depleted and refilled throughout the game. Place an action cube in the leftmost exposed slot in the 'gain food' row on your player mat and gain the amount", "headingPath": "OPTION 2. Gain Food and Activate Forest Bird Powers · When you choose to gain food, do the following: · Managing the birdfeeder", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.026263, "snippet": "Each turn, you will take 1 action. This section describes each action in more detail. Before choosing to play a bird from your hand, consider its habitat, food requirements, and egg cost. Each bird has habitat and food requirements, shown in the upper left-hand corner of the card. Additionally, ther", "headingPath": "THE FOUR ACTIONS · OPTION 1. Play a Bird From Your Hand · When you choose to play a bird, do the following:", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.024884, "snippet": "/ BirdCards_r20.indd 125BirdCards_r20.indd 125 6/15/21 7:29 AM6/15/21 7:29 AM Broad-Winged Hawk Buteo platypterus This hawk is seen more during migration than while it’s in the forest interior. 4 WHEN ACTIVATED: Roll all dice not in birdfeeder. If any are , cache 1 from the supply on this bird. 85cm", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 198}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 46}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 198 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 198 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 5, 2026 13:00
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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | Player Setup · 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards: | p.3 | 0.048147 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | p.3 | 0.041437 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | Player Setup | p.2 | 0.030415 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | p.3 | 0.029206 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | p.1 | 0.028612 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | OPTION 2. Gain Food and Activate Forest Bird Powers · When you choose to gain food, do the following: · Managing the birdfeeder | p.7 | 0.028205 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | THE FOUR ACTIONS · OPTION 1. Play a Bird From Your Hand · When you choose to play a bird, do the following: | p.6 | 0.026263 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198) | p.1 | 0.024884 (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 Wingspan — Appendix (corpus doc 46) | PLAYER SETUP | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 229 ms · first delta 8992 ms · total 9438 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 229 ms · ask 9197 ms · gateway work 9438 ms · total 9438 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 1902
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 62
- tok/sec
- 149.8 tok/sec — 62 output tokens in 0.414 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
6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against
- anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
- belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
- ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
- oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
- photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
- rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4
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.