Ruling — Concordia

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How do I set up the game?

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1. The 30 city tokens are shuffled well and displayed on the game board with their alphabetical characters face up (note that 'D' city tokens are not used on the Italia board) [1]. 2. City tokens are randomly assigned to the cities on the board according to their characters, then flipped so their type of goods is visible [1]. 3. For every province, identify the most valuable type of goods (cloth: 7, wine: 6, tools: 5, food: 4, bricks: 3) and assign a bonus marker of that type to the respective province in the bonus markers section on the top left corner of the game board [1]. 4. Arrange the 30 cards for sale according to their Roman numeral on the back (I-V) [1]. 5. Remove cards with a numeral bigger than the number of players from the game [1][2]. 6. Sort the remaining cards by numeral and shuffle them well [1]. 7. Create one complete face down stack with the I cards on top, followed by the II cards, etc. [1]. 8. Display the top 7 cards from the stack face up inside the display area on the top right corner of the game board [1]. 9. Place the remaining stack near the game board along with the CONCORDIA card [1]. 10. Randomly determine the start player [2]. 11. Give the Praefectus Magnus to the last player (the player to the right of the start player) [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.1 · 1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards

[2] RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook · p.1 · GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …

🔧 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 234 ms · ask 5907 ms · total 1185632 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1179482 ms · generation 6150 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 173}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 155}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 155 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 155 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 14:28

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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …	p.1	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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. Build houses (after all movements) · PrefecT	p.2	0.032002 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	colonisT	p.2	0.031498 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PRÆFECTUS MAGNUS · FURTHER RULES · STOREHOUSE · INTERMEDIATE SCORING	p.4	0.03101 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME END	p.4	0.030536 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER · SATURNUS · MERCURIUS · MARS	p.4	0.030077 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	colonisT	p.2	0.029631 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	PERSONALITY CARDS · DiPloMAT · senATor · consul	p.3	0.029199 (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 Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 173)	1 . Distribute city tokens · 2 . Assign bonus markers · 3 . Prepare the stack of cards	p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Concordia — Rulebook (corpus doc 155)	GAME OVERVIEW · Game end · Scoring victory points · PERSONALITY CARDS · 2. 1 new colonist · Game setup · …	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 234 ms · first delta 3676 ms · total 1185632 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1179482 ms · retrieval 234 ms · ask 5907 ms · gateway work 6150 ms · total 1185632 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4584
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 329
tok/sec: 136.6 tok/sec — 329 output tokens in 2.408 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 77), 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.