Ruling — Architects of the West Kingdom

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How do I setup the game?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

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How do I set up the game? →

Answered Aug 8, 2026 gemma4:26b read Architects of the West Kingdom

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook · p.5 · aim of the game · Variable Setup

From the Supply, place 4 Silver in the space above the Tax Stand. Each player takes 1 Player Board (side 1 faceup, unless using the V ariable Setup rules) and 20 Workers in their chosen colour. Each player places 1 of their coloured Player Markers underneath the Cathedral and the other on number 7 o

RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook · p.6 · first time players · playing the game

When playing for the first time or teaching others, there are 3 key concepts to understand: Worker Investment - Each player has 20 Workers. Each turn they will place just 1 of these onto the Main Board. As a general rule, the more times a player visits the same location, the more they benefit from i

RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook · p.28 · End-game Scoring

For a more variable game, all players should use side 2 of their Player Boards (randomly dealt or chosen). This gives each player a unique ability throughout the game. It also determines how much Silver, Virtue and other items they begin with. The player with the most Virtue starts the game, followe

RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook · p.26 · Introduction · Components · Setup

Despite your noble efforts to finish the cathedral, the king's patience has begun to wear. In his frustration, he has turned to renowned Byzantine architects, Constantine and Helena to complete the work. Your reputation is on the line. This is your last chance to prove your worth to the king. The ai

RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook · p.4 · aim of the game

Follow these steps to set up Architects of the West Kingdom: Place the Main Board in the centre of the playing area. Shuffle all Black Market Cards and place them in a pile on the left Black Market space, 'Small Market' side faceup. Shuffle all Reward Cards and place a number of cards in a facedown

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

corpus profile

live

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 224 ms · ask 5580 ms · total 5814 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 5814 ms

retrieval refs (raw)

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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 303 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 303 boosted

answered-before recall

past answered rulings were found and offered

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

ruling 1976 — matched by trigram similarity — measured similarity 0.8148

debug row retained until

Nov 6, 2026 12:14

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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	aim of the game · Variable Setup	p.5	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	first time players · playing the game	p.6	0.04741 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	End-game Scoring	p.28	0.046671 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Introduction · Components · Setup	p.26	0.046154 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	aim of the game	p.4	0.045476 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Playing the Game · There are a few additional rules to observe during the game. Your opponent: · End of the Game · End-game Scoring	p.27	0.03125 (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 Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Gain Resources / Cards · Armoury, Barracks, Fortress, Hideout · Church · Library · Monument · Palace · …	p.24	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
#8	RULEBOOK Architects of the West Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 303)	Workshop	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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 224 ms · first delta 5692 ms · total 5814 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 224 ms · ask 5580 ms · gateway work 5814 ms · total 5814 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2943
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 147.5 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.061 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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 231), 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.