You asked
how do i setup?
Answered counted as answeredDepending on which version or expansion you are playing, there are several different setup instructions provided: * **Standard Setup:** Proceed with all standard player setup steps as described on page 2, then rotate the turn-order dial so the star points to the player with the first-player token [1]. * **Wingspan Expansion:** The only change is to place the reference tile near the goal mat (the green side of the goal mat is recommended) [2]. * **Duet Mode (Asia Expansion):** This mode is for exactly 2 players. It replaces step 5 (Goal Tiles) with Duet map and Goal tiles (double-sided, marked with red corners). You must choose 4 at random and place them in the 4 slots below the Duet map [3]. Each player receives a specific set of items: 1 player mat (inner section), 8 action cubes, 2 random bonus cards, 5 random bird cards, and 5 food tokens. Players start with 5 resources (cards/food) but must discard 5 to keep only 5 [3]. * **Flock Mode:** Players are split into two groups at the same table (3+3 for 6 players or 3+4 for 7 players). Global components are replaced: a turn-order dial is placed in the middle, bird cards are shuffled and split into two decks to populate trays for each group, food/eggs are placed in a shared supply, and one set of standard goal tiles (not Duet tiles) is used for the entire table [4]. * **Swift-Start Guides:** These are recommended for learning. Players receive a guide that instructs them on which cards and food they start with instead of following the normal selection process [5][6].
Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
- timings
- search 243 ms · ask 15757 ms · total 16016 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 16016 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "score": 0.032522, "snippet": "The easiest way to learn Wingspan is by following the Swift-Start guides. Distribute 1 guide per player clockwise around the table, starting with the guide labeled 'Player 1.' Proceed with all setup steps in this rulebook as normal, except for selecting birds and food tokens. Instead, the guides wil", "headingPath": "6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards:", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.031319, "snippet": "Proceed with all standard player setup steps as described on page 2. Then rotate the turn-order dial so the star points to the player with the first-player token (purple in this 7-player example).", "headingPath": "Player Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030579, "snippet": "The easiest way to learn Wingspan is by following the Swift-Start guides. Distribute 1 guide to each player, with the first player getting the Player A guide. Proceed with all setup steps in this rulebook as normal, except for selecting birds and food tokens. Instead, the guides will instruct which ", "headingPath": "Duet Mode Swift-Start Guides and Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Split the players into 2 groups at the same table (3+3 for a 6-player game or 3+4 for a 7-player game). These groups remain fixed for the entire game. Replace all Global Components setup steps with the following: Turn-order dial. Place the turn-order dial in the middle of the table. The dial has two", "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.026743, "snippet": "The only change to the setup for a game of Wingspan is to place the reference tile near the goal mat. We recommend using the green side of the goal mat with this expansion, as some of the new goals do not work well with the blue side. As a reminder, all action cubes should stay in the row used until", "headingPath": "Setup Changes", "sharpsignalDocId": 47}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.02623, "snippet": "This method uses the side of the goal board that has spaces labeled 5-4-3-2-1-0 next to the space for each goal. For example, when using the goal that scores 5, 2, or 1 points, if two players tie for 1st place, each gets 3 points (5 + 2 divided by 2 players, rounded down). Do not award 2nd place to ", "headingPath": "Blue: One point per targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.026121, "snippet": "This method uses the side of the goal board that has rankings 5-4-3-2-1-0 next to the space for each goal. For example, when using the goal that scores 5, 2, or 1 points, if two players tie for 1st place, each gets 3 points (5 + 2 divided by 2 players, rounded down). Do not award 2nd place to anothe", "headingPath": "Blue: One point per targeted item", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.023932, "snippet": "The Asia Expansion includes a new Duet mode for exactly 2 players. It includes all other setup steps as shown on this page, but the following replaces step 5 (Goal Tiles): Duet map and Goal tiles. Use the Duet map and Duet endof-round goal tiles. The goals are double-sided and marked with red corner", "headingPath": "Duet Mode (2 Players)", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Player Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup Changes", "sharpsignalDocId": 47}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Duet Mode (2 Players)", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Duet Mode Swift-Start Guides and Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 49}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards:", "sharpsignalDocId": 45}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- answered-before recall
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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
- Oct 20, 2026 20:27
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards: | p.3 | 0.032522 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Player Setup | p.3 | 0.031319 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 196 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode Swift-Start Guides and Cards | p.5 | 0.030579 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Setup | p.3 | 0.030303 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion (corpus doc 47) | Setup Changes | p.2 | 0.026743 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | Blue: One point per targeted item | p.11 | 0.02623 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Blue: One point per targeted item | p.15 | 0.026121 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode (2 Players) | p.2 | 0.023932 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Player Setup | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion (corpus doc 47) | Setup Changes | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode (2 Players) | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Setup | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49) | Duet Mode Swift-Start Guides and Cards | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 45) | 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards: | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 243 ms · first delta n/a · total 16016 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 0 ms · retrieval 243 ms · ask 15757 ms · gateway work 16016 ms · total 16016 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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
- SERVED — setup-shaped and this game's approved setup checklist is offered above
- pattern that matched
- SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
- matched words (in the normalized question)
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setup
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against
- anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
- belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
- ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
- oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
- photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
- rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4
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.