Ruling — Anachrony

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How do I set up the game?

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To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Place the Main board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. If playing with 2 or 3 players, use the side with only two Hexagonal slots for the Research, Recruit and Construct spots [1]. 3. Place the two Research dice on the indicated spots on the Main board [1]. 4. Place the Evacuation Action tile on its respective space on the Main board, with its A (intact) side up [1]. 5. Shuffle the 11 Recruit pool cards and 11 Mine pool cards into two face-down decks and place them next to the Main board [1]. 6. Separate the buildings into four stacks by type (Power Plants, Factories, Life Supports, and Labs), shuffle each stack separately, and place them face up next to the Main board [1]. 7. Place the Anomalies in a face-up stack [1]. 8. Place the Paradox die and Paradox tokens next to the Anomalies [1]. 9. Place all Resources on the top-right side of the board and all Water on the top left [1]. 10. Place all Workers, Energy Coases, and Breakthroughs next to the Main board, across from the buildings [1]. 11. Place the Victory Point tokens within reach [1]. 12. Arrange the Timeline tiles in a straight line from left to right below the Main board [1]. 13. Place the Impact tile between the fourth and fifth Timeline tiles [1]. 14. Shuffle all Superprojects and randomly place one above each of the seven Timeline tiles, placing the first (leftmost) face up and the rest face down; do not place a Superproject above the Impact tile [1]. 15. Return remaining Superprojects to the box [1]. 16. Place one of each player's Path markers below the leftmost Timeline tile as their Focus markers [1]. 17. Randomly choose 5 Endgame Condition cards and place them face up above the Main board (returning the 'Most Completed Experiments' card to the box) [1]. 18. Each player picks a Path, receives its respective Player board, and chooses whether all players will use the A or B side [2]. 19. Give players colored components matching their Path color (6 Exosuits, 9 Warp tiles, 8 Path markers, and Morale and Time Travel markers) [2]. 20. Place the chosen Path board in front of each player with a randomly chosen side up [2]. 21. Give all players their starting Resources, Water, Energy Cores, and anything else indicated on their chosen Path board [2]. 22. For the Path of Progress, place its starting Breakthrough at random [2]. 23. Place starting Workers in the Active column (unless otherwise indicated) and set Morale and Time Travel markers to their starting positions [2]. 24. Each player picks one of two available Leader cards for their Path and places it on the designated spot on the Path board [2]. 25. Give each player their Player banners and place them in front of them [2]. 26. The player who most recently had a 'déjà vu' becomes First Player; place their Banner on the designated space next to the World Council Action spaces [2]. 27. In clockwise order starting from the First Player, players receive 0/1/1/2 Water [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Anachrony — Rulebook · p.3 · GENERAL SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Anachrony — Rulebook · p.4 · PLAYER 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 267 ms · ask 15011 ms · total 298477 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 283188 ms · generation 15289 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GENERAL SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 270}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 270}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 270 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 270 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 14:12

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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	GAMEPLAY VARIANT - STARTING ASSET DRAFT · GAMEPLAY VARIANT - ENDGAME CONDITION DRAFT · BUILDING DETAILS · Abbreviations:	p.14	0.047619 (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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	GAME TURN - ONE ERA OF PLAY · PREPARATION PHASE 1	p.4	0.046875 (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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	GENERAL SETUP	p.3	0.046544 (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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	CHANGES IN SETUP · PARADOX PHASE 2 · POWER UP PHASE 3 · WARP PHASE 4 · ACTION ROUNDS PHASE 5	p.12	0.045805 (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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	PLAYER SETUP	p.4	0.032787 (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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	GAMEPLAY VARIANT - ALTERNATE TIMELINE	p.14	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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	PLAYER BOARD ACTIONS · Worker specifics · FORCE WORKERS	p.9	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 Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	WARP PHASE 4 · ACTION ROUNDS 5 · IMPORTANT: Free Actions	p.6	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	GENERAL SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Anachrony — Rulebook (corpus doc 270)	PLAYER SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 267 ms · first delta 9838 ms · total 298477 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 283188 ms · retrieval 267 ms · ask 15011 ms · gateway work 15289 ms · total 298477 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4069
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 737
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 737 output tokens in 5.401 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s 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 198), 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.