Ruling — Puerto Rico

You asked

How do I set up the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Puerto Ricobg-3076-en-1e

1. Place the game board in the middle of the table [1][2]. 2. Place all the buildings on their assigned spaces on the game board [1][2]. 3. Sort the doubloons by value and place them on the bank on the game board [1][2]. 4. Each player takes one player board and places it before him on the table [1][3][2]. 5. Each player takes money in the following amounts: 2 doubloons for 3 players, 3 doubloons for 4 players, or 4 doubloons for 5 players [1][3][2]. 6. Players store their doubloons on the windrose on their player boards so that all players can see how much money each player has [1][3]. 7. Each player takes one plantation tile [1][3]. 8. Choose a starting player using any method [1][3][2]. 9. The starting player takes the governor card and a blue indigo tile, which he places face-up on any of the 12 spaces on his island [1][3][2]. 10. The other players take tiles in clockwise order as follows: - With 3 players: 2nd player takes indigo; 3rd player takes corn [1][3]. - With 4 players: 2nd player takes indigo; 3rd and 4th players take corn [1][3]. - With 5 players: 2nd and 3rd players take indigo; 4th and 5th players take corn [1][3]. 11. Place the remaining material as shown in the provided illustration [1][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.2 · PREPARATION · Each player takes:

[2] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.2 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook · p.2 ·

🔧 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 196 ms · ask 7786 ms · total 1011957 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1003966 ms · generation 7991 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 238 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 238 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 14:25

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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	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
#2	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PLAYING THE GAME · THE ROLES · Basic rules for all role cards:	p.3	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
#3	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	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
#4	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	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
#5	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	THE SETTLER (settler phase k place a new plantation on the island) · Notes:	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
#6	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · THE PROSPECTORS · A new round...	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
#7	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	GAME END	p.7	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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	Notes: · THE BUILDER (builder phase k build buildings)	p.4	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 Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Puerto Rico — Rulebook (corpus doc 238)		p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 196 ms · first delta 5221 ms · total 1011957 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1003966 ms · retrieval 196 ms · ask 7786 ms · gateway work 7991 ms · total 1011957 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3637
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 382
tok/sec: 140.0 tok/sec — 382 output tokens in 2.728 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 164), 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.