Ruling — Carnegie

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How do I set up the game?

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**Multiplayer Game Setup** 1. Place the game board in the center of the table [1]. 2. Shuffle the 8 Timeline tiles, draw 4 at random, arrange them as shown (selecting sides at random), and frame these tiles with the Start and End tiles, returning the unused tiles to the box [1]. 3. Place the 4 action markers on their corresponding starting positions on the far left of the Timeline [1]. 4. For a 4/3/2-player game, select 4/8/16 Department tiles at random and return them to the game box, then place the remaining Department tiles face-up on the table [1]. 5. Create a supply of goods cubes and banknotes near the main game board [1]. 6. Provide each player with: * 4 goods cubes and $12 [1]. * 1 Company board and a set of 4 different project tabs, sliding each tab under the right side of their individual game boards so colors and icons match (leaving the first space exposed) [1]. * 10 Employee figurines; each player places 1 employee standing up on each of their Company's 5 Departments and 5 employees lying down in their Company's Lobby, setting the remaining 5 aside [1]. * 30 player disks; each player must place: * 1 disk on the '0' position of the score track [1]. * 1 disk on the first space of each of the 4 regional transportation tracks [1]. * 1 disk on each of the 3 available spaces on their project tabs (Housing, Commerce, Industry) [1]. * The remaining 22 disks form the player's personal supply [1]. 7. Designate the most daring player as the first player; that player receives the first-player marker and the Timeline marker [1]. 8. For a 4-player game, give each player an Action Choice tile [1]. In a 3-player game, only the third player receives an Action Choice tile; there are no Action Choice tiles in a 2-player game [1]. 9. For a 2-player game, set aside 18 disks from an unused player color and shuffle the solo-game action cards; draw one card and place a disk on the donation chart in the space indicated at the top of the card [1]. 10. (For 2 or 3 players) Beginning with the player sitting to the right of the first player and going counter-clockwise, each player places the disk from their Housing tab onto the game board on a Housing space in a medium or major city; for a 3-player game, use 9 disks instead [2]. Then, they choose one Department tile to place in their personal reserve [2]. 11. (For 2 or 3 players) Starting with the first player and going in clockwise order, each player may move their employees up to a total of 6 steps on their own Company board; each movement must be made to an orthogonally adjacent space, and after an employee moves, they must be laid down [2]. 12. (For 2 or 3 players) Once these movements are completed, each player may activate employees [2]. **Solo Game Setup** 1. Player setup is identical to that of the normal, 2-player game [3]. 2. Set the game up for Andrew: * Andrew does not use employees, VP, money, goods cubes, or study points, and does not use an individual Company board [3]. * Use disks from any unused player color; Andrew starts with all his disks available for construction [3]. * Andrew will not place a disk on the game board or take a Department during setup [3]. * Place one disk on each of the 4 regional transportation tracks for Andrew [3]. * Align Andrew's 5 victory-point cards in numerical order, with the 0 VP card on the left and the 10 VP card on the right [3]. 3. Decide on a difficulty level by forming a face-down deck of action cards: * Beginner Game: 20 normal cards [3]. * Normal Game: 15 normal cards and 5 advanced cards, drawn at random [3]. * Difficult Game: 10 normal cards and 10 advanced cards, drawn at random [3]. * Expert Game: 5 normal cards and 15 advanced cards, drawn at random [3]. 4. Shuffle the deck and place it to the left of the 0 VP card [3]. 5. Place the Timeline marker next to the Timeline, and the locomotive at the top-left of the first victory-point

[1] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.4 · Two-player game setup shown.

[2] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.5 · Two-player game setup shown.

[3] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.18 · P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card

🔧 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 369 ms · ask 14682 ms · total 501464 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 486390 ms · generation 15074 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 302 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 302 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 14:16

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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	0.048652 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.5	0.048412 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	0.047875 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card	p.18	0.047123 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.2. Make a Donation · 3. Use Dep artments · ACTION CHOICE TILES · TRADE GOODS FOR MONEY	p.8	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 2: PLA YING THE GAME · 1. Select Timeline · 2. Events · 3. Use Departments · 4. Activate Employees & End of Round · 1. Select Timeline · …	p.7	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 1: INTRODUCING CARNEGIE · 1. How to Read these Rules · Part 1: Introducing Carnegie · Part 2: Playing the Game · Part 3: Transportation Tracks, Donations, & Departments Board · Part 4: Solo Game	p.2	0.029877 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	4. Comp any Basics · 4.1. Company Organization · 4.3. Sending an Employee on a Mission · 4.2. Recruiting Employees	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card	p.18	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 369 ms · first delta 7525 ms · total 501464 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 486390 ms · retrieval 369 ms · ask 14682 ms · gateway work 15074 ms · total 501464 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3644
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 137.0 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 7.475 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s 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 230), 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.