You asked
How do I set up the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: dnupbg-432456-en-1e
1. Remove cards from the deck based on the number of players: [1] - 5 players: No cards are removed (use all cards in the deck) [1] - 4 players: Remove all cards with the ¢, 3, and @2 symbols [1][2][3] - 3 players: Remove all cards with the ¢, 3, and @2 symbols [2][3] - 2 players: Use 2-player rules on the other side of the sheet [1] 2. Give a Player Aid card to each player [1] 3. Each player places 2 Player Aid cards of the same color in front of them [3] 4. Before each round, shuffle the deck [1][3] 5. Deal out all cards to the players [1][3] 6. Once the deal is complete, each player takes the cards in front of them without showing the other players [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 287 ms · ask 3602 ms · total 2112408 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 2108512 ms · generation 3896 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "40 Cards + 5 Player Aid cards « 16 Letter tokens « This Rulebook Be the first to get rid of all your cards. Place sets of cards in front of you and hope that your opponents don't play a better set before your next turn! Remove cards from the deck based on the number of players: > 5 players: No cards", "headingPath": "CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.048131, "snippet": "The second player to play their last card(s) wins 1 letter token, and the round ends immediately. END OF THE GAME The first player to get4 or more letter tokens immediately wins the game. anvp Setup: Remove all cards with the ¢.), 3), and @2)symbols. Each player places 2 Player Aid cards of the same", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "B ADD1CARD TOA SETIN FRONTOF AN OPPONENT You may play exactly 1 card from your hand and add it to a set placed in front of Hal ‘an opponent, following these rules: > Thevalue of the card played must match the value ofthe set to which itisadded. > If, by adding your card to a set, it now has the same", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.046875, "snippet": "Play a set of cards from your hand in front of you. However, if another player already [ea | has set of the same size as the one you wish to play, your set must havea higher value. In this case, the other player must return all of the cards from their set to their hand (rotating each card as they do", "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.046154, "snippet": "END OF THE ROUND The first player to play the last card(s) from their hand wins 2 letter tokens and takes no more turns this round. However, their cards remain in front of them for one set of turns before being discarded (when it would have been the player's next turn). Ifa higher-value set beats th", "headingPath": "EXAMPLE", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 213}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 213 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 213 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 14:46
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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND | p.1 | 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | p.2 | 0.048131 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | p.2 | 0.047875 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | EXAMPLE | p.1 | 0.046875 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | EXAMPLE | p.2 | 0.046154 (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 dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | CONTENTS · GOAL OF THE GAME · GAME SETUP · PLAYING A ROUND | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | p.2 | no quote on the wire | |
| [3] | RULEBOOK dnup — Rulebook (corpus doc 213) | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 287 ms · first delta 2408 ms · total 2112408 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 2108512 ms · retrieval 287 ms · ask 3602 ms · gateway work 3896 ms · total 2112408 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2024
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 216
- tok/sec
- 150.7 tok/sec — 216 output tokens in 1.433 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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 138), 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.