Ruling — San Juan (Second Edition)

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: San Juan (Second Edition)bg-166669-en-1e

To set up the basic game, follow these steps: 1. Choose a starting player and give them the governor card [1]. 2. Lay out the 5 role cards next to each other in the center of the table [1]. 3. Shuffle the 5 trading house tiles and place them face down in a stack next to the role cards [1]. 4. Remove one indigo plant from the deck for each player [1]. 5. Shuffle the remaining cards and place them face down next to the role cards to form a supply pile [1]. 6. Give each player one indigo plant, placed face up in front of them on the table [1]. 7. Give each player four cards, drawn from the top of the deck and kept in hand, hidden from other players [1]. 8. Put the score pad and pencil aside [1].

[1] RULEBOOK San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.2 · Game setuP (basic Game) · Game Play

🔧 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 274 ms · ask 6111 ms · total 1801046 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1794652 ms · generation 6394 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 132 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 132 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 14:40

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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Game setuP (basic Game) · Game Play	p.2	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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	expansion: 'the new buildings' · Guard Room beginning of a round · Office building beginning of a round · hut trader phase · tavern builder phase · Park builder phase	p.14	0.047131 (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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Example: · Palace game end · setuP VaRiatiOn · VarIaTIonS	p.13	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
#4	RULEBOOK San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	customs Office councillor phase · bank beginning of the round · harbor trader phase · Goldsmith prospector phase · Residence game end	p.15	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
#5	RULEBOOK San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Game Play · the Roles: · Builder ( Builder Phase: everyone builds a building ) · Roles: · Builder Role	p.3	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
#6	RULEBOOK San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Object Of the Game · 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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Game enD · the buildings · 5 Production Buildings	p.7	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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Example: · cathedral builder phase · Ravensburger USa, Inc.	p.16	0.029958 (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 San Juan (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 132)	Game setuP (basic Game) · Game Play	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 274 ms · first delta 5009 ms · total 1801046 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1794652 ms · retrieval 274 ms · ask 6111 ms · gateway work 6394 ms · total 1801046 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3743
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 182
tok/sec: 137.3 tok/sec — 182 output tokens in 1.326 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 54), 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.