Ruling — Azul: Queen's Garden

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How do I setup the game?

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1. Each player chooses a color and receives: 1 garden board (A) which is placed in front of them [1], 1 storage (B) placed next to their garden board [1], 1 fountain board (C) placed in the middle of their garden [1], and 3 jokers (D) placed on empty spaces of their storage [1]. 2. Place the scoring board (E) with the central icon visible in the middle of the table [1]. 3. Assemble the rotary wheel (F) and set it on its starting position [1]. 4. Put the evaluation marker (G) at the top of the evaluation track [1]. 5. Each player takes a scoring marker (H) in their color and places it on the 15th space of the scoring track [1]. 6. Fill the bag (I) with all 108 colored tiles (J) [1]. 7. Shuffle the 36 garden expansions and build 4 face down round stacks according to the number of players: 5 expansions per stack for a 2-player game, 7 per stack for a 3-player game, and 8 per stack for a 4-player game [1]. 8. Create the display area by placing the 1st round stack (K) in the middle of the table [1]. 9. Place the 3 following round stacks (L) in a row above the scoring board [1]. 10. Fill the top garden expansion of the 1st round stack with exactly 4 tiles drawn randomly from the bag [1]. 11. Build a supply next to the stack row by stacking the remaining garden expansions and put the shield token (M) on top of it [1]. 12. Place the first player marker (N) in the display area [1]. 13. Place the tower (O) next to the scoring board and the jokers (P) next to it [1]. 14. Put the point tokens (Q) aside [1]. 15. Return any unused garden boards, storages, fountain boards and scoring markers to the box [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook · p.1 · Game Setup

🔧 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 279 ms · ask 6200 ms · total 6489 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6489 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 1, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "Each player chooses a color and receives: 1 garden board (A) and places it in front of them, 1 storage (B) and places it next to their garden board, 1 fountain board (C) and places it in the middle of their garden, 3 jokers (D) and places them on empty spaces of their storage. Place the scoring boar", "headingPath": "Game Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.046432, "snippet": "The game ends after all players have passed during the 4 th round. A last 'end-of-round' scoring takes place, as usual, followed by the final scoring. Each player empties their storage. For each remaining joker, they score 1 point. For each remaining tile or garden expansion, they score minus points", "headingPath": "end Of the Game · final scOrinG · Game Variant · Development by: · Final Scoring Example", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Starting with the first player, each player calculates their round score. The rotary wheel indicates the 3 scored patterns or colors for the round. For each hexagon in your garden matching the pattern or the color indicated by the wheel, you score a number of points. The same hexagon can be scored t", "headingPath": "phase 2: scOrinG · phase 3: prepare the next rOund", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "During 4 rounds, your objective is to create the most beautiful garden by arranging patterns and colors that will score you points and lead you to victory. The 6 patterns are the heart of the game and will allow you to decorate your garden. Their design has been developed to allow you to remember th", "headingPath": "Object Of the Game · Pattern · Each round consists of the following 3 phases: · phase 1: players actiOns · a) acQuire tiles and Garden expansiOns", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Michael plays first and chooses to acquire tiles and garden expansions. He has the following options. He may: take all hexagons with the same color (ex.: all blue tiles), OR take all hexagons with the same pattern (ex.: all bird tiles). Michael chooses the blue hexagons. He takes the 3 blue tiles an", "headingPath": "example · b) place a tile · Paying a cost:", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "The selected tile must be placed on a free space (not occupied by a hexagon or garden element) of your garden either: without any adjacent hexagons, OR adjacent to one or more hexagons. In this case, the pattern or the color of the tile must be the same as at least one of the adjacent hexagons. A gr", "headingPath": "Paying with jokers: · c) place a Garden expansiOn · d) pass", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "If you do not have enough tiles and/or garden expansions of the jokers back to the supply. required pattern or color in your storage, or if you do not want to use them, you may complete the payment with jokers. In this case, you must minimally have the hexagon you want to place (a joker cannot be pl", "headingPath": "Paying with jokers:", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "Queen's Garden Queen's Garden Rulebook", "headingPath": "Final Scoring Example", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 248}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 248 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 248 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 6, 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 Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Game Setup	p.1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	end Of the Game · final scOrinG · Game Variant · Development by: · Final Scoring Example	p.5	0.046432 (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 Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	phase 2: scOrinG · phase 3: prepare the next rOund	p.4	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 Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Object Of the Game · Pattern · Each round consists of the following 3 phases: · phase 1: players actiOns · a) acQuire tiles and Garden expansiOns	p.2	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 Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	example · b) place a tile · Paying a cost:	p.3	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
#6	RULEBOOK Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Paying with jokers: · c) place a Garden expansiOn · d) pass	p.4	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
#7	RULEBOOK Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Paying with jokers:	p.3	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 Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Final Scoring Example	p.6	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))	38

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Azul: Queen's Garden — Rulebook (corpus doc 248)	Game Setup	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 279 ms · first delta 3110 ms · total 6489 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 279 ms · ask 6200 ms · gateway work 6489 ms · total 6489 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3543
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 460
tok/sec: 138.1 tok/sec — 460 output tokens in 3.332 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 8s 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 174), 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.