Ruling — The Castles of Burgundy

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How do I set up the game?

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Depending on the specific game mode or variation, the setup is as follows: **Standard/Base Game Setup** 1. Place the 24 silver coins, 26 worker chips, and the white die next to the game board [1]. 2. Divide the 164 hex tiles by the color of their backs and place them in face-down piles next to the game board [1]. 3. Shuffle the 42 goods tiles face down, divide them into five face-down stacks of 5 tiles each, and place one stack on each phase space (A through E) on the game board; set aside the remaining 17 tiles in a face-down pile [1]. 4. Place the 12 bonus tiles on their corresponding spaces on the game board [1]. 5. Choose a color and take a Number 1 or Number 2 player board [1]. 6. Place one castle (dark green hex tile) on the dark green number 6 center hex space of your player board [1]. 7. Take 3 random goods tiles from the remaining 17 tiles and place them face up on the goods storage spaces in the bottom right of your player board, stacking same-color tiles [1]. 8. Place one overview board adjacent to the bottom edge of your player board [1]. 9. Take 2 dice in your chosen color [1]. 10. Take 2 playing pieces; place one on the start space (0/100) of the victory point track on the game board [1]. 11. Place 1 silver coin on the corresponding space in the top right of your player board [1]. 12. Place 1 double-sided victory point tile (100/200) next to your player board [1]. **Additional Setup Rules** * **For 2-player game:** Follow the rules for the 2-player game for the rest of the setup, playing with the backside of the board [2]. * **Shields (2, 3, or 4 players):** Shuffle 18 shields face down and randomly place them on the goods spaces of the six depots based on player count: 1 shield per depot for 2 players; 1 shield in depots 1, 3, and 5, and 2 shields in depots 2, 4, and 6 for 3 players; and 2 shields per depot for 4 players [3]. Once placed, turn them face up [3]. * **Team Game:** Form teams of 2 players seated next to each other [4]. Each team receives a team board (two halves), one castle (placed on the central dark green 1 hex space), three random goods tiles (placed on team storage spaces), and either 3 worker chips (Team A) or 5 worker chips (Team 0B), plus 2 silver coins [4]. Each player also receives 2 dice, 2 playing pieces (for victory points and turn order track), and the victory point tile in their color [4]. For round 1, place the turn order track playing pieces in the order: A1, B1, A2, B2 [4].

[1] RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.2 · Game setup · Place the 24 silver coins and 26 worker chips as well as the white die next to the game board. · Each player chooses a color and takes:

[2] RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.14 · GAME SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.15 · The shields · GAME SETUP · 2 players: · PLAYING THE GAME

[4] RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.13 · the team Game · GAME SETUP · Each team receives: · PLAYING THE GAME · Notes: · FINAL SCORING

🔧 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 251 ms · ask 11372 ms · total 1211879 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1200247 ms · generation 11632 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 154 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 154 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 14:29

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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	GAME SETUP	p.14	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	Game setup · Place the 24 silver coins and 26 worker chips as well as the white die next to the game board. · Each player chooses a color and takes:	p.2	0.048387 (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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	the team Game · GAME SETUP · Each team receives: · PLAYING THE GAME · Notes: · FINAL SCORING	p.13	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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	The shields · GAME SETUP · 2 players: · PLAYING THE GAME	p.15	0.045724 (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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	THE FIVE GAME ROUNDS · A PLAYER'S TURN · the fIve rounds · THE GAME ACTIONS	p.4	0.045455 (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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.14	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
#7	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.14	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	IF YOU ARE ALREADY VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE GAME	p.16	0.029877 (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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	Game setup · Place the 24 silver coins and 26 worker chips as well as the white die next to the game board. · Each player chooses a color and takes:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	GAME SETUP	p.14	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	The shields · GAME SETUP · 2 players: · PLAYING THE GAME	p.15	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	the team Game · GAME SETUP · Each team receives: · PLAYING THE GAME · Notes: · FINAL SCORING	p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 251 ms · first delta 6630 ms · total 1211879 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1200247 ms · retrieval 251 ms · ask 11372 ms · gateway work 11632 ms · total 1211879 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3467
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 682
tok/sec: 137.5 tok/sec — 682 output tokens in 4.960 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 38s 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 76), 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.