Ruling — 7 Wonders

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How do I set up the game?

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1. Separate the Age cards into three decks: Age I, Age II, and Age III [1]. 2. For each Age, sort the cards by the minimum number of players required and keep only the cards with a number less than or equal to the number of players; put the other cards back in the box [1]. 3. In the Age III deck, randomly draw as many Purple cards as the number of players +2, keep them face down, and add them to the other Age III cards; put any remaining Purple cards back in the box [1]. 4. Shuffle each deck of Age cards and put them face down in the middle of the table [1]. 5. Each player randomly takes a Wonder Board (or chooses one), picking their preferred side (Day or Night) and placing it in front of themselves [1]. 6. Take 3 Coins (worth 1) and place them on your Wonder board to make up your starting Treasure [1]. 7. Place the leftover Coins in the middle of the table to make the Coin reserve [1]. 8. Place all of the Military Conflict tokens in the middle of the table to make the Military Conflict token reserve [1]. 9. Put all other game contents back in the box [1].

[1] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders — Rulebook · p.3 · LIST OF CARDS AND CHAINS SHEET · 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 255 ms · ask 4576 ms · total 1669607 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1664767 ms · generation 4840 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "LIST OF CARDS AND CHAINS SHEET · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 299}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 299 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 299 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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	1. CHOOSE A CARD · 2. PLAY THIS CARD · A. Construct the Building on your card · CARD PLACEMENT IN YOUR CITY · GAMEPLAY · Definitions: · …	p.4	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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	END OF THE GAME · COUNTING VICTORY POINTS · Wonder Board · Treasure · Military Conflicts · Blue Cards · …	p.8	0.046696 (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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	LIST OF CARDS AND CHAINS SHEET · SETUP	p.3	0.046642 (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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	B. Construct a stage of your Wonder · C. Sell the card	p.4	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
#5	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	3. PASS YOUR HAND · SIXTH AND LAST TURN · RESOLUTION OF MILITARY CONFLICTS	p.5	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
#6	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	OVERVIEW OF THE GAME · CONTENTS	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
#7	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	Buying resources from a neighboring City · Resources you can buy from your neighbors include: · Notes: · D. FREE COST THROUGH CHAINS	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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	A. NO COST · B. COIN COST · CONSTRUCTING IN 7 WONDERS · C. RESOURCE COST · Using resources produced by your City	p.6	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 7 Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 299)	LIST OF CARDS AND CHAINS SHEET · SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 255 ms · first delta 2980 ms · total 1669607 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1664767 ms · retrieval 255 ms · ask 4576 ms · gateway work 4840 ms · total 1669607 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3403
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 266
tok/sec: 147.9 tok/sec — 266 output tokens in 1.799 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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 227), 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.