You asked
How do I set up the game?
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Standard Setup: 1. Place the Button Scoring Tile and Button Tokens in the center of the table [1]. 2. Give each player a Quilt Board and their matching set of 6 Design Goal Tiles in their player color (your player color is the stitching color on your Quilt Board) [1]. 3. Randomly select 1 Cat Scoring Tile from each group of each tile and randomly select which side will be used [1]. 4. Place each player's chosen 3 Cat Scoring Tiles onto each of the Cat Tokens that match the chosen Cat Scoring Tiles and place them near the scoring tiles [1]. 5. Separate the Cat Scoring Tiles into groups by the number of dots in the corner (+, e+, eee) [1]. 6. Randomly assign 2 of the Black + White Patch Tiles to each Cat Scoring Tile [1]. 7. Shuffle all Patch Tiles and place them into facedown stacks within easy reach of all players OR put them in the Bag [2][1]. 8. Each player draws 2 Patch Tiles from the facedown stacks (or Bag, if using) into their hand [2][1]. 9. Reveal 3 Patch Tiles to form the tile market in the center of the table [2][1]. 10. The person who most recently pet a cat will be the first player [2][1]. Beginner Setup: 1. Place the Millie, Tidsit, and Coconut Cat Scoring Tiles and their matching Cat Tokens in the center of the table [3]. 2. Give each player a Quilt Board and their matching set of 6 Design Goal Tiles in their player color (your player color is the stitching color on your Quilt Board) [3]. 3. Randomly assign 2 of the Black + White Patch Tiles to each Cat Scoring Tile [3]. 4. Have each player place the #, AA-BB-CC, and AAA-BBB Design Goal Tiles on their Quilt Board following the example provided in the rules [3]. 5. Shuffle all Patch Tiles and place them into facedown stacks within easy reach of all players (or Bag, if using) OR put them in the Bag [3]. 6. Each player draws 2 Patch Tiles from the facedown stacks (or Bag, if using) into their hand [3]. 7. Reveal 3 Patch Tiles to form the tile market in the center of the table [3]. 8. Place the Button Scoring Tile and Button Tokens in the center of the table [3]. 9. The person who most recently pet a cat will be the first player [3]. Solo Mode Setup: 1. Use the beginner or standard setup [4].
🔧 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 217 ms · ask 9307 ms · total 1764167 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 1754634 ms · generation 9533 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
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- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STANDARD SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 230}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STANDARD SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 230}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BEGINNER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 230}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SOLO MODE", "sharpsignalDocId": 230}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 230 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 230 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 14:39
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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | BEGINNER SETUP | 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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | STANDARD SETUP | p.5 | 0.04741 (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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | GAME END + FINAL SCORING · Family Variant · 2-Player Lower Variance Variant | p.8 | 0.045805 (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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | CALICO ACHIEVEMENTS · w ACHIEVEMENTS (Normal Game) ; · f ae. w ACHIEVEMENTS (Rule Restrictions) · Play without a hand of tiles. You may only use tiles from the market | p.11 | 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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | Play without a hand of tiles. You may only use tiles from the market · w ACHIEVEMENTS (Scenarios) | p.12 | 0.045695 (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 Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | STANDARD SETUP | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | GAMEPLAY OVERVIEW PLAYER TURN | p.5 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | SOLO MODE | p.8 | 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
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | STANDARD SETUP | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | STANDARD SETUP | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | BEGINNER SETUP | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Calico — Rulebook (corpus doc 230) | SOLO MODE | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 217 ms · first delta 5258 ms · total 1764167 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 1754634 ms · retrieval 217 ms · ask 9307 ms · gateway work 9533 ms · total 1764167 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3142
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 570
- tok/sec
- 137.7 tok/sec — 570 output tokens in 4.138 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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)
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set up
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 156), 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.