Ruling — Rebirth

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Rebirthbg-417197-en-1e

For the Ireland version of the game: 1. Lay out the Board in the middle of the table, Ireland side up [1]. 2. Shuffle the deck of Public Mission Cards, then create a face-up row of 8 cards from the top of the deck above the Board [1]. 3. Place the remaining Public Mission Card deck face-down on the Board in the designated spot [1]. 4. Shuffle the Round Tower Bonus Tiles face-down, then randomly place 1 tile on each of the Round Tower spaces (yellow spaces with a Round Tower illustration) and flip them face-up [1]. 5. Each player chooses a color and places their Scoring Counter on the 0 space of the score track around the perimeter of the Board [1]. 6. Each player places all of their color's Castles and Cathedrals in front of themselves [1]. 7. Each player places the Scoring Achievement with a blank side up in front of themselves [1]. 8. Each player places their color's Doubling Marker in front of themselves [1]. 9. With players, take 24 Tiles of any unused color and place them face-down on the spaces marked with the yellow hex icon [1]. 10. With players, each player collects all the Tiles of their color [1]. 11. With players, each player returns 3 Energy Farm Tiles, 3 Food Farm Tiles, and 1 Settlement Tile of each value (2, 3, and 4) to the box [1]. 12. Each player places their Tiles face-down and shuffles them [1]. 13. Each player draws 4 of their Tiles, looks at them privately, shuffles them face-down, and puts them aside face-down (keeping them separate from the rest of the tiles) [1]. 14. Each player randomly draws 1 Tile to their hand and looks at it privately [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Rebirth — Rulebook · p.6 · COMPONENTS · Game Summary · Turn Summary

🔧 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 277 ms · ask 7643 ms · total 1906418 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1898489 ms · generation 7929 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COMPONENTS · Game Summary · Turn Summary", "sharpsignalDocId": 203}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 203 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 203 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 14:42

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 Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	Place a second Tile (4x) · Doubling Markers (2x) · Score 13 points (3x) · CREDITS · Draw a Public Mission Card (1x) · Score 3 points (2x) · …	p.8	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
#2	RULEBOOK Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	COMPONENTS · Game Summary · Turn Summary	p.6	0.047379 (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 Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)		p.2	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 Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	1. Placing Tiles	p.6	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))	258
#5	RULEBOOK Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)		p.2	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 Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	Game Summary · Turn Summary · 1. Placing Tiles · SETTLEMENTS · FOOD FARMS · ENERGY FARMS	p.2	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 Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	PUBLIC MISSION CARDS · ROUND TOWERS · 3. Drawing Tiles	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
#8	RULEBOOK Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	3. Drawing Tiles · THE GAME ENDS · 1. Incomplete Settlements · 2. Castles · 3. Mission Cards	p.4	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Rebirth — Rulebook (corpus doc 203)	COMPONENTS · Game Summary · Turn Summary	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 277 ms · first delta 4892 ms · total 1906418 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1898489 ms · retrieval 277 ms · ask 7643 ms · gateway work 7929 ms · total 1906418 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4044
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 412
tok/sec: 147.8 tok/sec — 412 output tokens in 2.787 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 128), 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.