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How do I set up the game?
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To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Determine the number of players (anywhere from two to seven) [1]. 2. Cut for positions at the table, for partners, and for the deal [1]. 3. If playing with four players, cut for partners, where the two highest pair against the two lowest [1]. 4. Arrange player positions based on the number of players: - Two players sit opposite each other [1]. - Three players play "Cut Throat," and position is immaterial [1]. - Four players sit with partners opposite each other [1]. - Five or seven players choose seats in order, with the lowest cut first [1]. - Six players sit with three partners against the other three, with opposing players sitting alternately around the table [2][1]. 5. The eldest hand sits on the left of the dealer, and the pone sits on the dealer's right [1]. 6. If there is a stake, its amount must be settled before play begins [2][1]. 7. Any player may shuffle the cards, with the dealer going last [2]. 8. The pack must be presented to the pone to be cut, leaving at least four cards in each packet [2]. 9. The dealer distributes the cards to each player in rotation, beginning on his left, either two at a time and then three, or three and then two, until all have five cards [2]. 10. The dealer must continue using the same number (two or three) for every player, including himself, during the first round [2]. 11. After the cards are dealt, the next card is turned face up on the remainder of the pack, except in five and seven-handed Euchre, where no trump is turned [2].
🔧 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 264 ms · ask 14323 ms · total 2065814 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 2051220 ms · generation 14594 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 12, "score": 0.047379, "snippet": "This form of Euchre is particularly well suited to social gatherings. Its peculiarity consists in the arrangement and progression of a large number of players originally divided into sets of four, and playing, at separate tables, the ordinary four-handed game. Apparatus. A sufficient number of table", "headingPath": "PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Rubber or game scores must be kept on a whist marker, or on a sheet of paper. PLAYERS. Euchre may be played by any number of persons from two to seven; but in the seven-handed game the full pack of fifty-three cards is used. Whatever the number of players, they cut for positions at the table, for pa", "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Any person who is tempted to bet on any game in the Euchre family should remember the advice of the worldly-wise Parisian to his son: 'Until you have four eyes in your head, risk not your gold at Écarté.' SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD PLAY. The chief points for the beginner to understand are. When to order u", "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Playing. All being seated, the deal is cut for at each table, and play begins. There is no cutting for partners, that being settled in the original drawing. Five points is a game, and after that number is reached by either side at the head table, the bell is struck. Lone hands are usually barred at ", "headingPath": "PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Euchre — Foster's Complete Hoyle (1914) 4 partners, and they play against the others without any change in their positions at the table. When six play, three are partners against the other three, and the opposing players sit alternately round the table. STAKES. If there is any stake upon the game, i", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Euchre — Foster's Complete Hoyle (1914) 7 for he has no partner to derive any benefit from the information conveyed. Leading Out of Turn. Should any person, not playing alone, lead out of turn, the adversaries may call a suit from the player in error, or from his partner, when it is next the turn of", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Some persons imagine that the adversaries can prevent an exposed card from being played; but such is not the case in Euchre. A person playing a lone hand is not liable to any penalty for exposing his cards, nor for leading out of turn, for he has no partner to derive any benefit from the information", "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "1. SCORING. A game consists of five points. If the players making the trump win all five tricks, they count two points towards game; if they win three or four tricks, they count one point; if they fail to win three tricks, their adversaries count two points. 2. If the player making the trump plays a", "headingPath": "EUCHRE LAWS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 224 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 224 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 14:45
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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE. | p.12 | 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 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | p.3 | 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)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | 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 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE. | p.13 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | 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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | 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 | |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | p.3 | 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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE LAWS. | p.18 | 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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 264 ms · first delta 11636 ms · total 2065814 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 2051220 ms · retrieval 264 ms · ask 14323 ms · gateway work 14594 ms · total 2065814 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4482
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 390
- tok/sec
- 136.2 tok/sec — 390 output tokens in 2.864 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 39s 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
- SERVED — setup-shaped and this game's approved setup checklist is offered above
- 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 150), 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.