Ruling — Glen More II: Chronicles

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What does each player take, and what goes in the middle, before we begin?

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Asked with: Glen More II: Chroniclesbg-265188-en-1e

Each player chooses 1 of the available colors and receives: * The Home Tile in his color (a double Tile piece consisting of the Home Castle and Village along the River) [1] * All Scotsmen in his color [1] * All Clan Markers in his color [1] Additionally, the player in last position receives 5 Coins, while the next players in player order receive 6, 7, and 8 Coins [1]. In the middle of the table, you place: * Both the Clan Board and the Rondel [1]

[1] RULEBOOK Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook · p.8 · 1. Basic setup · 2. Setting up the table · 3. Determining the initial player order and starting Coins · 2 Players · 3 or 4 Players · Landmark Cards · …

🔧 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 369 ms · ask 12201 ms · total 12584 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 12584 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 374 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 374 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 18:21

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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	Ending the Game	p.19	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	- The Game in a Nutshell · 4. If it is a person, place a Clan Marker on the Clan Board. · 6. Four Scoring Rounds and a final scoring take place.	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	Gameplay · Turn Order · The Die · Example:	p.10	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	1. Take a Tile · 2. If it is a territory Tile, add it your territory.	p.2	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	The Scoring Rounds	p.19	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	Example: · Anatomy of the Tiles · Player Turn	p.11	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	1. Basic setup · 2. Setting up the table · 3. Determining the initial player order and starting Coins · 2 Players · 3 or 4 Players · Landmark Cards · …	p.8	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 Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	Persons, Clan Markers and the Clan Board	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

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Glen More II: Chronicles — Rulebook (corpus doc 374)	1. Basic setup · 2. Setting up the table · 3. Determining the initial player order and starting Coins · 2 Players · 3 or 4 Players · Landmark Cards · …	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 369 ms · first delta 11658 ms · total 12584 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 369 ms · ask 12201 ms · gateway work 12584 ms · total 12584 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3513
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 120
tok/sec: 137.1 tok/sec — 120 output tokens in 0.875 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s 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: BEGIN — "begin" / "beginning"
matched words (in the normalized question): begin

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 303), 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.