Ruling — Tigris & Euphrates

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How do I set up the game?

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To set up a game of Tigris & Euphrates, follow these steps: 1. Assemble the six monuments by placing the small top over the hole in the large base, ensuring no two are alike [1]. 2. Place the game board in the play area [2]. 3. Place a temple tile on each of the ten board spaces marked by a winged beast (called a 'Shedu') [2]. 4. Place a treasure token on top of each temple [2]. 5. Put all remaining civilization tiles into the bag and shuffle them together [2]. 6. Place the four unused treasure tokens back into the box and place all monuments near the side of the board [2]. 7. Divide all victory point tokens by color and place them by the board [2]. 8. Each player chooses a dynasty consisting of four leaders bearing the same dynastic symbol in a different color [2]. 9. Each player takes the unification tile, two catastrophe tiles containing his dynastic symbol, and the screen bearing his dynastic symbol [2]. 10. Each player draws six tiles from the bag and places them behind his screen [1]. 11. Each player leaves his leaders, catastrophe tiles, and unification tile in front of him in full view of other players [1]. 12. Choose a starting player at random by placing all players' unification tiles with the dynastic symbols facedown on the table, mixing them, and picking one [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook · p.4 · ASSEMBLING THE MONUMENTS

[2] RULEBOOK Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook · p.4 · OPTIONAL VARIANT COMPONENTS · TILES AND COLORS · SETUP · 1. SET THE GAME BOARD · 2. PREPARE THE RESERVES · 3. CHOOSE DYNASTIES

🔧 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 300 ms · ask 9510 ms · total 830018 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 820198 ms · generation 9820 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 305 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 305 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 14:22

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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	OPTIONAL VARIANT COMPONENTS · TILES AND COLORS · SETUP · 1. SET THE GAME BOARD · 2. PREPARE THE RESERVES · 3. CHOOSE DYNASTIES	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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	CIVILIZATION BUILDINGS	p.14	0.046642 (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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	ASSEMBLING THE MONUMENTS	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
#4	RULEBOOK Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	MONUMENT BUILDING · TREASURE DISTRIBUTION · Andrew's Turn · Barbara's Turn · David's Turn	p.12	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
#5	RULEBOOK Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	TURN STRUCTURE	p.5	0.03125 (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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	MONUMENT BUILDING	p.11	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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION · ADVANCED GAME BOARD · ENGLISH VARIANT	p.15	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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	ASSEMBLING THE MONUMENTS · OBJECT OF THE GAME · KINGDOMS · THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS	p.5	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 Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	ASSEMBLING THE MONUMENTS	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tigris & Euphrates — Rulebook (corpus doc 305)	OPTIONAL VARIANT COMPONENTS · TILES AND COLORS · SETUP · 1. SET THE GAME BOARD · 2. PREPARE THE RESERVES · 3. CHOOSE DYNASTIES	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 300 ms · first delta 7668 ms · total 830018 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 820198 ms · retrieval 300 ms · ask 9510 ms · gateway work 9820 ms · total 830018 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3511
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 308
tok/sec: 148.1 tok/sec — 308 output tokens in 2.080 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 233), 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.