Ruling — Navegador

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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To prepare for the game, follow these steps: 1. Set up the market by marking the prices for sugar, gold, and spices with a wooden cube at the fourth line from above [1]. 2. Turn over the colony tokens for sugar (9x), gold (11x), and spices (13x) with their prices down, shuffle them well, and distribute them on 12 hidden stacks depicted on the game board, ensuring each stack contains the number of tokens indicated by its position (1, 2, 3, or 4); one token of each type remains hidden and is removed from the game [2][1]. 3. Place one privilege to each arch inside the gallery [2]. 4. Place a token indicating that 2 ships are lost at Nagasaki, and also at Macau if there are only 2 or 3 players [2]. 5. Place an explorer (round wooden disk) on the compass rose of all 12 sea regions except Portugal [2]. 6. Place the buildings yet to be built on the game board: 6 factories for sugar, gold, and spices on the three lines above, and the remaining shipyards and churches on the two lines below, placing them from left to right (avoiding covering the most expensive positions if there are more than 2 players) [2]. 7. Each player starts with 2 ships of their color in the sea region of 'Portugal', 3 workers in Lisboa (marking the '3' field), and their octagonal game stone on the rondel [1]. 8. Each player receives 200 Cruzados, a King's privilege, and their other 5 ships into their personal supply, along with their player sheet containing 1 starting factory (orange), 1 shipyard (brown), and 1 church (grey) [1]. 9. After the starting player has been allotted, the last player receives the 'Navegador' playing card [1][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.11 · ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR

[2] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.11 · ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR

[3] RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook · p.4 · Wooden Pieces · Cardboard Pieces · ACTION SELECTION · Example: · AT START

🔧 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 239 ms · ask 7344 ms · total 40698 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 33104 ms · generation 7594 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 407 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 407 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 05:01

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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	GAME PHASES · NAVEGADOR	p.9	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	SET UP · 1. Market · 2. Players · 3. Colonies · 4. Privileges · 5. Dangerous sea regions · …	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	Wooden Pieces · Cardboard Pieces · ACTION SELECTION · Example: · AT START	p.4	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	END OF THE GAME · SCORING	p.9	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	Processing goods with factories · Selling and processing	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR · Necessary workers:	p.12	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	PLAYER'S ACTIONS · Example: · COLONY	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR	p.11	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 Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR	p.11	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAVEGADOR	p.11	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Navegador — Rulebook (corpus doc 407)	Wooden Pieces · Cardboard Pieces · ACTION SELECTION · Example: · AT START	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 239 ms · first delta 4470 ms · total 40698 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 33104 ms · retrieval 239 ms · ask 7344 ms · gateway work 7594 ms · total 40698 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4177
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 417
tok/sec: 135.7 tok/sec — 417 output tokens in 3.073 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s 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 336), 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.