Ruling — Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendarbg-126163-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Carefully punch the cardboard pieces out of the punchboards [1][2]. 2. Attach all gears to the game board using plastic fasteners, ensuring they are in the correct positions as shown in the setup picture [1][2]. 3. Put the appropriate stickers on the gears, including 4 stickers representing Food Days on the corresponding teeth of the Tzolk'in gear [1][2]. 4. Assemble the game board [1][2]. 5. Place the assembled game board in the middle of the table and lay the rest of the components on or around it as depicted [3]. 6. For the Palenque gear, place one Corn Harvest Tile on each field; for the groups of fields corresponding to actions 3, 4, and 5, put one Wood Harvest Tile on top of each Corn Harvest Tile [3]. 7. Rotate the Tzolk'in gear until the arrowhead points at one of the two teeth representing an end-of-age Food Day (the teeth marked by blue-green stickers) [3]. 8. Give the Starting Player Marker to the player who most recently sacrificed something (or, in a tie, the player who volunteers for the next sacrifice) [3]. 9. Put all wood, stone, gold, crystal skulls, and unused workers in an easily reachable bank [3]. 10. Place the corn bank in the middle of the Tzolk'in gear [3]. 11. Each player chooses a color and takes the following in that color: a player board (flipped lighter side up), 6 workers, 7 markers, and a scoring counter [3][2][4]. 12. Each player places their 7 markers: one on the white step of each of the three temples, and one on the leftmost space of each of the four technology tracks [4]. 13. Each player puts their scoring counter on space 0 of the scoring track [3]. 14. Separate buildings and monuments into three face-down stacks (Age 1 buildings, Age 2 buildings, and monuments) and shuffle each stack separately [4]. 15. Deal 6 monuments face up into the monument spaces on the game board (for a 3-player game, deal 5; for a 2-player game, deal 4) [4]. Put any remaining monuments in the box [4]. 16. Deal six Age 1 buildings face up into the building spaces [4]. Place the Age 1 and Age 2 building stacks face down near the game board [4]. 17. Mix up the Starting Wealth Tiles and deal 4 secretly to each player; each player keeps 2 and discards 2, then receives the items depicted on their chosen tiles [4].

[1] RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook · p.3 · Cardboard pieces · Game Board · STICKERS · ASSEMBLING THE GAME BOARD

[2] RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook · p.2 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook · p.4 · SETTING UP THE GAME · Jungle · Calendar · Starting Player · Bank · Scoring counter

[4] RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook · p.5 · Player setup · 1 PLAYER BOARD · Starting Wealth Tiles · Player markers · Buildings & Monuments · Monument Spaces · …

🔧 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 264 ms · ask 12958 ms · total 680944 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 667712 ms · generation 13232 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 275 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 275 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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	SETTING UP THE GAME · Jungle · Calendar · Starting Player · Bank · Scoring counter	p.4	0.048916 (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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Player setup · 1 PLAYER BOARD · Starting Wealth Tiles · Player markers · Buildings & Monuments · Monument Spaces · …	p.5	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
#3	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)		p.2	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
#4	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Cardboard pieces · Game Board · STICKERS · ASSEMBLING THE GAME BOARD	p.3	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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Starting Player Space · Take Accumulated Corn · Take Back Your Worker · Move the Starting Player Marker	p.10	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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Placing Workers	p.6	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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Dummy Workers · Example:	p.5	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
#8	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	COURSE OF THE GAME · Player Turns · Begging for Corn	p.6	0.029412 (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 Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Cardboard pieces · Game Board · STICKERS · ASSEMBLING THE GAME BOARD	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	SETTING UP THE GAME · Jungle · Calendar · Starting Player · Bank · Scoring counter	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — Rulebook (corpus doc 275)	Player setup · 1 PLAYER BOARD · Starting Wealth Tiles · Player markers · Buildings & Monuments · Monument Spaces · …	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 264 ms · first delta 8647 ms · total 680944 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 667712 ms · retrieval 264 ms · ask 12958 ms · gateway work 13232 ms · total 680944 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3782
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 597
tok/sec: 137.1 tok/sec — 597 output tokens in 4.353 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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 203), 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.