You asked
What must be prepared before the first player takes a turn?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Euchrebg-6901-en-1e
Before the first player takes a turn, the following must be prepared: 1. If there is any stake upon the game, its amount must be settled before play begins [1]. 2. Any player has the right to shuffle the cards, with the dealer being last [1][2]. 3. The dealer must present the pack to the pone to be cut [1][2]. 4. The dealer must ensure at least four cards are left in each packet after the cut [1][2]. 5. The dealer distributes the cards to each player in rotation, beginning on his left, either two cards then three, or three cards then two, until all players have five cards [1][2]. 6. The next card is turned face up on the remainder of the pack (except in five and seven-handed Euchre) [1]. 7. Players, starting from the dealer's left, may decide which suit shall be the trump by either insisting the turn-up suit remains trump or declaring indifference to which suit is trump [3][4].
🔧 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 309 ms · ask 14325 ms · total 2140125 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 2125482 ms · generation 14643 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 7, "score": 0.032787, "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": 0.032258, "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": 3, "score": 0.031746, "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": 15, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "No trump is turned. The rules governing all irregularities in the deal are the same as in ordinary Euchre. Making the Trump. The cards dealt, each player in turn, beginning with the eldest hand, bids a certain number of points, at the same time naming the suit which he wishes to make the trump. Ther", "headingPath": "SEVEN-HANDED EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "If the suit of the same colour as the turn-up is named for the new trump, it is usual to say: ' I make it next .' If a suit of a different colour is named, it is called crossing the suit , and some players, if a red suit is turned, will say: 'I cross to clubs.' Any player naming a new suit may annou", "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "The dealer's partner, on the other hand, should cross the suit almost as invariably as the eldest hand should make it next; for if his partner cannot take up the trump, and the eldest hand cannot make it next, their hands must be weak, and if it is passed to the pone, he will probably turn out to ha", "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Euchre — Foster's Complete Hoyle (1914) 6 the deal is void, and passes to the next player on the dealer’s left. ORDERING UP THE TRUMP. Instead of passing the turn-up trump on the first round, any player who thinks it would be to his advantage to have the turn-up remain the trump, may order the deale", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.029412, "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}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 19, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EUCHRE LAWS.", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 224}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "EUCHRE.", "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 14:49
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) | p.7 | 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 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | 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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | SEVEN-HANDED EUCHRE. | p.15 | 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 Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | p.3 | 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) | EUCHRE. | p.10 | 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) | p.6 | 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) | PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE. | p.13 | 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) | p.4 | no quote on the wire | |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE LAWS. | p.19 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | p.4 | no quote on the wire | |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Euchre — Rulebook (corpus doc 224) | EUCHRE. | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 309 ms · first delta 12893 ms · total 2140125 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 2125482 ms · retrieval 309 ms · ask 14325 ms · gateway work 14643 ms · total 2140125 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4462
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 226
- tok/sec
- 135.2 tok/sec — 226 output tokens in 1.671 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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
- NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question
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.