Ruling — Camel Up (Second Edition)

You asked

How do I set up the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Camel Up (Second Edition)bg-260605-en-1e

1. Place the game board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Sort the betting tickets by color (5 colors in total) [1]. 3. Stack the 4 tickets of each color by placing both -Pound tickets on the bottom, the -Pound ticket on top of them, and the -Pound ticket on the very top [1]. 4. Place each stack onto its matching ticket tent on the game board [1]. 5. Place the 5 pyramid tickets as a stack onto their space on the game board [1]. 6. Sort the Egyptian Pound coins by value and place them as a supply (the “bank”) next to the game board [1]. 7. Give each player 3 Egyptian Pounds to place in front of them [1]. 8. Give each player the 5 finish cards of one character and their character's spectator tile [1]. 9. Each player keeps their hand of five cards hidden from other players and places their spectator tile in front of them [1]. 10. In games with fewer than 6 players, leave partnership cards in the box [1]. 11. In games with 6 or more players, give each player his character's partnership card, placed in front of him with its “available” side face up [1]. 12. To determine the starting positions of the 5 racing camels, roll the 5 racing dice together once and place each racing camel onto the race track as indicated by the dice (a 1 places a camel on space 1, a 2 on space 2, and a 3 on space 3) [1][2]. 13. Stack all camels standing on the same space in any order and ensure they all face clockwise [1][2]. 14. Determine the starting positions of the 2 crazy camels (black and white) by rolling the grey die; place a camel onto the track as indicated by the number rolled (a white number moves the white camel, a black number moves the black camel) [1][3]. 15. If the second roll for a crazy camel results in the same space as the first, place the second camel on top of the first and ensure they face counterclockwise [2]. 16. Put the 5 racing dice into the pyramid by removing the cap and dropping them through the hole [2]. 17. Drop the grey die into the pyramid, put the cap back on, and place the pyramid onto its space on the game board [2]. 18. Give the starting player marker to the youngest player to begin the race [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.1 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.1 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.3 · place your spectator tile 2 · take 1 pyramid ticket 3 · how to use the pyramid · Example:

🔧 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 252 ms · ask 7848 ms · total 2089480 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 2081372 ms · generation 8108 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 181 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 181 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 14:45

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 Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)		p.1	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
#2	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)		p.1	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
#3	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	place your spectator tile 2 · take 1 pyramid ticket 3 · how to use the pyramid · Example:	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 Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	spectator tiles · Bet on the overall winner or the overall loser · end of a leg	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 Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	take 1 Betting ticket · the legs · IMPORTANT: · end of the game · money	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
#6	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	ADDITIONAL RULES IN GAMES WITH 6 OR MORE PLAYERS · enter into a Betting partnership 5	p.5	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 Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	end of the game · Example:	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
#8	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	OVERVIEW · 8 5 the racing camels · Camel stack: · Camel unit: · the crazy camels · PLAYING THE GAME	p.2	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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)		p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)		p.1	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Camel Up (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 181)	place your spectator tile 2 · take 1 pyramid ticket 3 · how to use the pyramid · Example:	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 252 ms · first delta 4014 ms · total 2089480 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 2081372 ms · retrieval 252 ms · ask 7848 ms · gateway work 8108 ms · total 2089480 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4550
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 556
tok/sec: 137.4 tok/sec — 556 output tokens in 4.048 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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 99), 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.