Ruling — The Taverns of Tiefenthal

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

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Before the game begins, the following setup occurs: 1. Each player takes a Tavern Board and a set of 10 equipment tiles: Tables, Server, Cashbox, Monk, Dishwasher, Safe, Bartender, Barrel, and Brewer, placing each in the appropriate areas of their Tavern Board [1]. 2. Each player takes a yellow Safe Marker and places it on the '0' space of the Safe [1]. 3. Each player takes a brown Beer Storage Marker and places it on the '0' space of the Beer Storage [1]. 4. Each player takes a Dice Coaster and places it in front of themselves [1]. 5. Each player takes 4 white dice [1]. 6. The dice in the players' colors are placed near the center of the table within easy reach [2][1]. 7. Each player creates their starting deck by taking 7 Regulars Cards with the tablecloths in their color and adding 1 Server, 1 Table, and 1 Brewer from the general supply of Tavern Cards [2][1]. 8. Each player shuffles this starting deck and places it face down next to their Tavern Board [2]. 9. Each player takes the Monastery Marker in their color and places it on the '0' space of the track on the Monastery Board [2]. 10. The Beer Mug (Start Player Token) is assembled, and the player who was last in a tavern places the Beer Mug in front of them [2].

[1] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP

🔧 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 335 ms · ask 7843 ms · total 8187 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8187 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 362 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 362 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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	SETUP	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
#2	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	D Can I Take Your Order? (turn order)	p.6	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Serve the Guests! (turn order) · 1. Serve a Guest	p.7	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Plan Your Actions (all players)	p.7	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAMEPLAY · C Here Comes the Server (all players)	p.6	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	GAME END · Explanation of Symbols · Server · Dishwasher · Table · Brewer · …	p.10	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	Beer Actions: Recruit a Guest · Recruit Nobles · End of Your Serving Phase	p.9	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 The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Taverns of Tiefenthal — Rulebook (corpus doc 362)	SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 335 ms · first delta 5825 ms · total 8187 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 335 ms · ask 7843 ms · gateway work 8187 ms · total 8187 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3779
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 316
tok/sec: 137.7 tok/sec — 316 output tokens in 2.295 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s 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 291), 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.