Ruling — Lewis & Clark: The Expedition

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Lewis & Clark: The Expeditionbg-140620-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Shuffle the 54 Encountered Character cards to form the draw deck and place it face down on the game board, on top of the Journal of Encounters [1]. 2. Draw 5 cards from this deck and arrange them on the Journal of Encounters by their Strength (the number at the card's top left-hand corner), placing the lowest Strength card at the bottom near the Gulf of Mexico and the highest Strength at the top; if two cards have the same Strength, place them in the order drawn [1]. 3. Each player takes an Expedition mini-board of her chosen colour and places it in front of her [1]. 4. Each player takes an Indian figure from the stock and places it on the fourth Boat of her Expedition [1]. 5. Each player takes 1 Fur, 1 Food, and 1 Equipment from the Stocks and places them on the first boat of his Expedition (in the variant, players are randomly given 3 of each primary resource to place on the first Boat) [1]. 6. Each player places her colour's Scout figure on the Route starting space (St Louis) [1]. 7. Each player places her colour's Camp token next to the river, pointing at the starting space (St Louis) [1]. 8. Place any unused colours' Scouts and Camps back in the box [1]. 9. Choose a starting player randomly; the game starts with this player's turn [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook · p.3 · 8 Resource Multiplication Markers · 2&# #6.#"'2'-, +',' - 0"1

🔧 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 201 ms · ask 9672 ms · total 44956 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 35073 ms · generation 9883 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "8 Resource Multiplication Markers · 2&# #6.#\"'2'-, +',' - 0\"1", "sharpsignalDocId": 433}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 433 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 433 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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	#,! +.+#,2 (OPTIONAL PHASE) · When you set up Camp, · TIME COSTS OF THE EXPEDITION BOATS	p.6	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	!-+.-,#,21 · 1#2 3. · Primary Resources · Transformed Resources · 8 Resource Multiplication Markers	p.2	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	0#!03'2+#,2 (OPTIONAL PHASE)	p.5	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	8 Resource Multiplication Markers · 2&# #6.#"'2'-, +',' - 0"1	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	Th e Camp · % +# #,"	p.6	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	Win the race to the West and make history! · !-+.-,#,21	p.16	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	- (#!2 · % +# 230,	p.4	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	"#1!0'.2'-, -$ 2&# 4'** %# !2'-,1 · Craftsmanship · Farewell · Horse Trade · Canoe Manufacturing	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 Lewis & Clark: The Expedition — Rulebook (corpus doc 433)	8 Resource Multiplication Markers · 2&# #6.#"'2'-, +',' - 0"1	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 201 ms · first delta 7647 ms · total 44956 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 35073 ms · retrieval 201 ms · ask 9672 ms · gateway work 9883 ms · total 44956 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2763
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 323
tok/sec: 148.0 tok/sec — 323 output tokens in 2.183 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s 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 363), 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.