Ruling — It's a Wonderful World

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: It's a Wonderful Worldbg-271324-en-1e

For a normal game (3-5 players): 1. Assemble the gameboard [1]. 2. Place the Round-Tracker token on round 1 [1]. 3. Shuffle the Development cards to form a deck, then place it in its notch along the gameboard [1]. 4. Place the Resource cubes and Character tokens on their respective Supply spaces on the gameboard [1]. 5. Choose whether to play with side A or B of the Empire cards [1]. 6. Deal one Empire card to each player, ensuring everyone places theirs with the same side up [1]. 7. Lay out your cards in an organized play area, allowing sufficient space above your Empire card for constructed Development cards, and providing a Draft area for the current round and a Construction area [1]. For Solo mode (1-player): 1. Shuffle the Development cards and form 8 face-down mini-decks of 5 cards each (the Development Pools) [2]. 2. Form a deck from the remaining Development cards [2].

[1] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook · p.2 ·

[2] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook · p.7 · SOLO MODE

🔧 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 272 ms · ask 5430 ms · total 1646837 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1641125 ms · generation 5712 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 327 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 327 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 14:37

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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	SOLO MODE	p.7	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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)		p.3	0.047619 (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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	SOLO SCENARIOS · SC01: TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH · RULES · SC02: A BETTER WORLD · SC03: THEY ARE AMONG US	p.8	0.045476 (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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)		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
#5	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)		p.1	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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · PERFORMING A PRODUCTION STEP	p.4	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
#7	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	A. DRAFT PHASE	p.3	0.030622 (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 It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	It's aWtonsderful ensIWeEtm I'ppnfo · 2-PLAYER MODE	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful World — Rulebook (corpus doc 327)	SOLO MODE	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 272 ms · first delta 4142 ms · total 1646837 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1641125 ms · retrieval 272 ms · ask 5430 ms · gateway work 5712 ms · total 1646837 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4030
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 220
tok/sec: 147.7 tok/sec — 220 output tokens in 1.490 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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 255), 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.