Ruling — The Princes of Florence

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: The Princes of Florencebg-555-en-1e

To prepare for the game, follow these steps: 1. Place the game board in the middle of the table [1][2]. 2. For the expansion version, place 6 special character cards face-up separately near the board and place 600 Florins on the Banker card [3]. 3. Each player takes one player board and places it in front of themselves; the board determines the player's color [1][2]. 4. Each player takes a marker in their color and places it next to their player board [1][2]. 5. Each player takes a figure in their color and places it on space “0/50” on the fame track [1][2]. 6. For Profession cards: shuffle the 21 Profession cards and deal 4 face down to each player; each player chooses 3 for their starting hand and returns the 4th, then shuffle the undealt and unchosen cards together and place them face down near the game board [1][2]. 7. Each player takes 3500 Florin starting money (2 @ 1000, 2 @ 500, and 5 @ 100) [1][2]. 8. Place the remaining money as “the Bank” next to the board [1][2]. 9. Arrange the following pieces next to the game board for the Auction phase: Forests, Builders, Lakes, Prestige cards, Parks, Recruiting cards, and Jesters [1][2]. 10. Arrange the following pieces next to the game board for the Action phase: Buildings, Profession cards, Freedoms, and Bonus cards [1][2]. 11. The number of each type of Freedom tile available is equal to the number of players minus one; place any extra Freedom tiles back in the box [1][2]. 12. Place the black round marker on space “1” of the round/minimum WV table [1][2]. 13. Place the black starting player figure in front of the oldest player (the starting player) for the first round [1][2].

[1] RULEBOOK The Princes of Florence — Rulebook · p.3 ·

[2] RULEBOOK The Princes of Florence — Rulebook · p.3 · PREPARATION · Each player takes:

[3] RULEBOOK The Princes of Florence — Rulebook · p.14 · THE MUSE AND THE PRINCESS EXPANSION · PREPARATION · PLAYING THE GAME · SPECIAL CHARACTER CARD AUCTION

🔧 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 219 ms · ask 9447 ms · total 24637 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 14956 ms · generation 9681 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 394 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 394 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 7, 2026 04:59

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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)		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 The Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	Action phase	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)		p.3	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	Bonus card · Best Work · New Round · Earning money · GAME END · TWO PLAYER RULES	p.11	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	Flow of the Auction phase · PREPARATION · Auction phase: auction 1 object · auction 1 object · each player: at most 1 object	p.4	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	Complete a Work · Action phase · Up to 2 actions per player:	p.7	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	Acquire a Bonus card · Profession card · Freedom · Note: · Bonus card	p.10	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 Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	PREPARATION · Each player takes:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Princes of Florence — Rulebook (corpus doc 394)	THE MUSE AND THE PRINCESS EXPANSION · PREPARATION · PLAYING THE GAME · SPECIAL CHARACTER CARD AUCTION	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 219 ms · first delta 6308 ms · total 24637 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 14956 ms · retrieval 219 ms · ask 9447 ms · gateway work 9681 ms · total 24637 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4180
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 459
tok/sec: 138.3 tok/sec — 459 output tokens in 3.320 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: 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 323), 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.