You asked
How do I set up the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Mysteriumbg-181304-en-1e
1. Assign each player a role: one single player is the ghost [1], and all remaining players are psychics [1]. 2. The ghost sets the game screen A in front of them so no psychic can see what it conceals [1]. 3. The ghost places the deck of Vision cards B face-down behind the game screen to form a draw pile [1]. 4. The ghost places 3 Candle markers C on top of the game screen [1]. 5. The psychics set the Character Progress board D1, Final Progress board, Location Progress board D2, and Object Progress boards D3 and D4 in the center of the table [1]. 6. Each psychic chooses a color (or two colors if playing the 3-player variant) and takes the corresponding envelope E and Psychic token F [1][2]. 7. The psychics place the Intuition pawn G of their color on the Character Progress board [1]. 8. Choose a psychic to be in charge of counting rounds; that psychic takes the Pocket Watch H and puts the hand on the first hour [1]. 9. Choose a set of 16 Character cards I (the green back set is recommended for the first game) [1]. 10. The psychics spread the 8 Character psychic cards I1 face-up next to the Character Progress board [1]. 11. The ghost takes the 8 matching Character ghost cards I2 [1]. 12. For each psychic, place 1 random Character ghost card in the dedicated slot on the game screen [1]. 13. The ghost secretly returns any remaining unused cards to their original compartment in the box without the psychics seeing them [1]. 14. Repeat steps 10 through 12 with a set of Location cards (J1 and J2) and then with a set of Object cards (K1 and K2) [1]. 15. The ghost places the psychics' envelopes behind the game screen and draws a hand of 7 Vision cards [1].
🔧 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 286 ms · ask 6311 ms · total 1965148 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 1958542 ms · generation 6606 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "With 3 players, the game is played as usual, with one exception: During setup, each psychic chooses two colors (instead of one) and takes the corresponding components. The game proceeds exactly as if there were 4 psychics at the table. If you want more replayability in future games, use the numbers ", "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.048652, "snippet": "Mysterium is a cooperative game whose goal is to solve the mystery surrounding the death of the ghost . Before you begin playing, assign each player one of the following roles: The ghost (one single player) must guide the psychics through the investigation. The ghost knows the suspects, locations, a", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "This may not seem easy at first, but as you listen to the psychics' discussions, it will become easier and easier. The ghost draws as many Vision cards as needed to complete their 7-card hand. Then, they choose a psychic who has not received any card this round and give them a Vision , following the", "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "6 Once the ghost's turn has been completed, followed by the psychics' turn, players proceed to the resolution phase. One by one, in any order, each psychic asks the ghost if they have selected the correct card. The ghost responds by knocking under the table: 1 knock for yes , 2 for no . If the card ", "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Then check the psychics' progress: if all the psychics have reconstructed their respective Trail (i.e. all the Intuition pawns are on the Final Progress board ), they can immediately proceed to the revealing of the mystery (see next page). The psychic with the Pocket Watch moves the hand up 1 hour. ", "headingPath": "Preparing for the next round · Otherwise:", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Congratulations! You've succeeded in establishing a psychic connection with the ghost. They can't express themself through words: instead, they send you images and memories of the manor and its occupants. Unfortunately, the visions are often imprecise and cryptic... Will you be able to understand th", "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Your mind clears, and your memories fall into place as the events of that fateful evening fit together like pieces of a puzzle. You remember who is responsible for your death. Gathering your remaining strength, you give your fellow partners a final vision... Return the Progress boards and any remain", "headingPath": "Otherwise:", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "The psychics have managed to communicate with you from the material world! The visions you give them may help them solve the crime, but time is working against you. Let's start by reconstructing the events of the tragic night when you lost your life... The ghost's objective is to get each psychic to", "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3-Player variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 183}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 183 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 183 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 14:43
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 Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | 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 Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | p.2 | 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 | |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | p.3 | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | p.4 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | Preparing for the next round · Otherwise: | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | p.4 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | Otherwise: | p.5 | 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 Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | p.3 | 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
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 Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | p.2 | no quote on the wire | |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Mysterium — Rulebook (corpus doc 183) | 3-Player variant | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 286 ms · first delta 3344 ms · total 1965148 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 1958542 ms · retrieval 286 ms · ask 6311 ms · gateway work 6606 ms · total 1965148 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3076
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 436
- tok/sec
- 137.1 tok/sec — 436 output tokens in 3.180 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 37s 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 101), 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.