Ruling — Le Havre

You asked

How do I set up the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Le Havrebg-35677-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Shuffle the 7 Supply tiles and place them face down on the round spaces on the game board [1]. 2. Place players’ ship markers beside the first game board, near the first Supply tile [1]. 3. Place the tokens with goods and food on their Supply spaces (note that there is no need to place every token; the majority can be left in the game box) [1]. 4. Shuffle the Special Building cards and place 6 cards face-down on the “Special Buildings” space [1]. 5. Place the Loan cards beside the board at the start of the game [2]. 6. Place the food production tokens beside the board [2]. 7. Turn the Round cards to the 'Harvest' (or 'No harvest') side, sort them by round number for the appropriate number of players, and place them face-up on the Round card space, with the card for round 1 on top of the pile [2]. 8. Remove the green Construction Firm card and the two Building Firm cards from the pile of Building cards and place them beside the game board [3]. 9. Sort the Standard Buildings by removing any card that does not have a tick beside the appropriate number of players (use darker ticks for the full game and smaller, light-colored ticks for the shortened game) [3]. 10. In the 2-player shortened game, each player starts with a 2-value Wooden Ship card [3]. 11. Shuffle the remaining Standard Building cards and divide them into 3 equally-sized piles [3]. 12. Turn each pile over and sort the cards by their sort order number (top right) with the lowest-numbered card at the top [3]. 13. Fan the cards out from the Building Proposals spaces so that the bottom line of each card is visible [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook · p.2 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook · p.3 · S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S

[3] RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook · p.3 · S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S

🔧 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 1518 ms · ask 22878 ms · total 649463 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 624980 ms · generation 24483 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 233 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 233 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 14:19

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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)		p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	TIPS F O R SMOOTHER GAME PLAY · Rotate Buildings · · After the Main Action, It Is the Next Player's Turn · · Round Number · · Final Actions	p.12	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
#3	RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	A S A M P L E F I R S T R O U N D	p.13	0.045037 (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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	PLAYING T H E G A M E · ROUND STAGE · A PLAYER'S T URN	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
#5	RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S	p.3	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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	Feeding Phase	p.7	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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S	p.3	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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	TIPS F O R SMOOTHER GAME PLAY	p.11	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 Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Le Havre — Rulebook (corpus doc 233)	S E T U P A N D E X P L A N A T I O N OF C O M P O N E N T S	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 1518 ms · first delta 21453 ms · total 649463 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 624980 ms · retrieval 1518 ms · ask 22878 ms · gateway work 24483 ms · total 649463 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4035
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 403
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 403 output tokens in 2.953 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 159), 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.