Ruling — Wingspan Pocket

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Wingspan Pocketbg-473508-en-1e

1. Shuffle the double-sided bird/food cards food-side up [1][2]. 2. Deal 6 cards to each player in a pile and set them aside until step H [1][2]. 3. Form the Supply: A. Divide the rest of the bird/food cards into 4 roughly equal decks (food-side up) and place them within reach of all players [1][2]. B. Flip over the top card of each food deck and place them bird-side up next to their decks [1][2]. C. Leave room for a single discard pile [1][2]. D. Place the eggs where all players can as reach them [1][2]. 4. Advanced: Place the goal display where all players can see it [3][4]. 5. Advanced: Randomly select 2 goal cards and place them, either side up, on the goal display, then return the rest of the goal cards to the box [3][4]. 6. Each player: E. Gains a Nest card to begin their Flock [1][3][4]. F. Gains 1 player token [3][4]. G. Gains 1 egg and adds it to their Nest [3][4]. H. Flips the top 2 of their 6 food cards to the bird side, then arranges them beneath their Flock to form their Reserve [1][3][4]. (Advanced: Each player may choose which 4 cards are food and which 2 cards are birds) [3][4]. 7. Randomly select the first player; they gain the first player card and may take the first turn [3][4].

[1] RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook · p.2 · Setup · 2. Form the Supply :

[2] RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook · p.2 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook · p.3 · 2. Form the Supply : · 4. Each player:

[4] RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook · p.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 247 ms · ask 7484 ms · total 7741 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7741 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 199 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 199 boosted
answered-before recall: 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 20:29

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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	Setup · 2. Form the Supply :	p.2	0.048916 (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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)		p.2	0.047643 (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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	2. Form the Supply : · 4. Each player:	p.3	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
#4	RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)		p.3	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 Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)		p.1	0.030769 (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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	Overview · Nest Action 1: Play a bird · Cost	p.4	0.030303 (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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	W i n g s p a n P O C K E T · Welcome to the world of Wingspan , · For your first game, you'll need · Watch a rules video	p.1	0.029851 (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 Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	Activating Bird Powers · End of turn	p.9	0.029412 (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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	Setup · 2. Form the Supply :	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)	2. Form the Supply : · 4. Each player:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Wingspan Pocket — Rulebook (corpus doc 199)		p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 247 ms · first delta 4895 ms · total 7741 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 247 ms · ask 7484 ms · gateway work 7741 ms · total 7741 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3552
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 381
tok/sec: 137.0 tok/sec — 381 output tokens in 2.781 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: 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): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 124), 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.