Ruling — The Gallerist

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: The Galleristbg-125153-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Place the Game board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Place the Player boards around the Game board nearest to the Gallery of the appropriate color [1]. 3. Place Visitors in the cloth bag: use all Visitors for a 4-Player game; for 3-Player, remove 2 of each type and place them in the box; for 2-Player and Solitaire games, remove 4 of each type [1]. 4. Place each Player's Influence marker (disc) on the '10' space of the Influence Track [1]. 5. In the box office, place a number of tickets of each color depending on the number of Players: 20 for 4-Player, 15 for 3-Player, and 10 for 2-Player and Solitaire games; place any remaining tickets back in the game box [1]. 6. Shuffle the contract cards, place them face down on the leftmost space, draw the top 4 cards, and place them face up on the four contract display spaces [1]. 7. Shuffle all 16 Artist tiles and place them one at a time onto the spaces on the board which match the color and Art form of the Artist (each Art form has 1 blue Artist and 1 red Artist); if you draw an Artist whose space is already occupied, return it to the game box; repeat until all spaces are filled and return any remaining Artists to the box [1]. 8. Place the first drawn blue Artist tile face up and mark its initial Fame with a white cube (the initial Fame value is printed on both sides of the tile); all other Artists begin the game face-down [1]. 9. Shuffle the Artist bonus tiles and place one at random on each Artist, returning any remaining tiles to the box [1]. 10. Place one white Visitor (Collector) from the bag on each red Artist tile [1]. 11. Place both of the Artist's Signature tokens next to all corresponding Artist tiles [1]. 12. For each Art form, shuffle the respective Works of Art and place each stack face up on the space next to the appropriate studio; take the top tile from each stack and set them aside for now [1]. 13. Place a number of random Visitors from the bag on each topmost Work of Art equal to the number of tickets depicted on the tile [1]. 14. Stack each of the Promotion tokens on the corresponding numbered spaces [1].

[1] RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:

🔧 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 320 ms · ask 12274 ms · total 193254 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 180645 ms · generation 12609 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 291 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 291 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 14:11

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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	0.048172 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	0.048131 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.2	0.046402 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	0.045695 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.4	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
#6	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Round One	p.17	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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Executive Action:	p.17	0.030214 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.1	0.030118 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 320 ms · first delta 8622 ms · total 193254 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 180645 ms · retrieval 320 ms · ask 12274 ms · gateway work 12609 ms · total 193254 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4206
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 537
tok/sec: 136.9 tok/sec — 537 output tokens in 3.924 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: 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): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 220), 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.