Ruling — Teotihuacan: City of Gods

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Teotihuacan: City of Godsbg-229853-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Give each player a player colour token of their choosing [1]. 2. Each player uses the workers (dice) of that chosen colour [1]. 3. Randomly determine the first player [1]. 4. Give the first player 1 cocoa and the '1' Player Order token [1]. 5. Give the player sitting to the right (anticlockwise) of the first player 3 cocoa and a Player Order token with a value equal to the number of players [1]. 6. Give every other player 2 cocoa and Player Order tokens reflecting their positions in the player order [1]. 7. Give each player all 12 coloured discs matching their player colour token [1]. 8. Each player keeps 6 discs to be used as Technology markers [1]. 9. Place the remaining 6 discs on the 0 spot of the Pyramid track, the bottom of the Avenue of the Dead track, the bottom step of all 3 temples, and the 0 Victory Points space on the score track [1]. 10. If it is your first game: place one worker showing a power of 3 onto the Ascension wheel [2][1]. 11. If it is your first game, provide starting resources based on player order: * Player '1' receives 5 cocoa, 1 wood, 2 stone, 4 gold, and a temple advance on the green temple (providing 1 more cocoa) [1]. * Player '2' receives 5 cocoa, 4 wood, 1 stone, and a single advance on the red and blue temples (providing 1 Victory Point and a stone) [1]. * In 3- and 4-player games, Player '3' receives an advance on the Avenue of the Dead track, 4 cocoa, 3 wood, 4 stone, and an advance on the blue temple (providing 1 gold) [1]. * In 4-player games, Player '4' receives 2 wood, 5 gold, an advance on the green temple (providing 1 more cocoa), and a Technology marker on the 3rd lowest numbered Technology tile (providing another advance on the green temple/cocoa) [1]. 12. Randomly deal 4 Starting tiles to each player [2]. 13. If any player receives Starting tiles with a Discovery icon, that player draws a random Discovery tile for each such icon [2]. 14. Each player simultaneously picks 2 Starting tiles and returns the other 2 [2]. 15. Players claim benefits from chosen tiles: Power-ups increase starting dice power; Discovery tiles are claimed by paying the listed cost; Temple advances are rewarded immediately; Technology tiles receive a marker on the tile with the lowest reference number (no gold is spent, but temple advance is rewarded) [2]. 16. Each player must place their starting workers onto the general area of the Action Boards matching 3 unique Action Board numbers on their selected Starting tiles (no two dice belonging to the same player may start on the same Action Board) [2]. 17. In 3-player games, draw 2 Starting tiles and place 3 workers of an unused colour on the first 3 unique Action Boards shown on those tiles [2]. 18. In 2-player games, repeat this process to place 3 workers of the second unused colour [2]. 19. Return all used and unused Starting tiles to the game box [2]. 20. Shuffle all unclaimed Discovery tiles back into the Discovery tile stacks [2]. 21. For each Starting tile that allows a player to receive a Discovery tile, draw one Discovery tile and place it next to that Starting tile [3]. 22. If playing 4 players, each player drafts one Starting tile (with its linked Discovery tile), then each player drafts another in reverse player order [3]. 23. For the solo mode: set up a normal 2-player game, but the bot starts with 2 gold, 2 stone, 2 wood (and no cocoa) [4]. 24. The bot starts on the 0 step of the Pyramid track, the first (not bottom) step of each temple (without rewards), and the first (not bottom) step of the Avenue of the Dead track [4]. 25. Place a marker for the bot on the top right Technology tile (top Technology of the green temple column) without gaining an additional temple advancement [4]. 26. Place the bot's workers on the following Action Boards with these powers: Gold Deposits (4) power 2; Nobles (6) power 2; Construction (8) power 2; and Decorations (7) (Worship space) power 1 [4].

[1] RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook · p.4 · Player setup

[2] RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook · p.5 · 7. IF THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST GAME: · Player turns · Taking a Normal Turn

[3] RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook · p.10 · ▪ 4 players: · Additional components

[4] RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook · p.10 · Changes in setup · General rules change

🔧 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 464 ms · ask 14673 ms · total 539600 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 524444 ms · generation 15156 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 296 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 296 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 14:17

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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Changes in setup · General rules change	p.10	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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Player setup	p.4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	▪ 4 players: · Additional components	p.10	0.047379 (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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	7. IF THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST GAME: · Player turns · Taking a Normal Turn	p.5	0.047371 (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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	First time playing Teotihuacan? · Board setup	p.2	0.045724 (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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Board setup	p.3	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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Nobles (6)	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
#8	RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	▪ 4 players:	p.9	0.029437 (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 Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Player setup	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	7. IF THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST GAME: · Player turns · Taking a Normal Turn	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	▪ 4 players: · Additional components	p.10	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Teotihuacan: City of Gods — Rulebook (corpus doc 296)	Changes in setup · General rules change	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 464 ms · first delta 7624 ms · total 539600 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 524444 ms · retrieval 464 ms · ask 14673 ms · gateway work 15156 ms · total 539600 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4597
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 137.0 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 7.477 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 224), 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.