Ruling — Rococo

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Rococobg-144344-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Carefully punch out the cardboard pieces from the punch boards [1]. 2. Place the game board in the middle of the play area with the side corresponding to the number of players faceup (as indicated by the numbers on the upper left) [1]. 3. Place the Queen's Favor token in the indicated space [1]. 4. Sort the 28 Employee cards into Levels I through VI, creating the New Employees draw deck by shuffling and stacking them in this order: Level VI (6 cards), then Level V (4 cards), then Level IV (4 cards), then Level III (4 cards), then Level II (4 cards), and finally Level I (6 cards) on top [1]. 5. Place all Resource tiles in the Resource bag, mix them, and place the bag near the Resource display [1]. 6. Place all Garment tiles in the Garment bag, mix them, and place the bag near the Garment Design display [1]. 7. Each player chooses a color and takes the following items for that color: 1 Player board, 1 plastic Resource tile rack, 5 Start Employee cards (placed facedown in the Employee supply on the left side of the Player board), 20 Trademark Tokens, and 1 Prestige Counter [1]. 8. Place the Prestige Counter on the 0 space of the score track [1]. 9. Place the Livre coins next to the board to form a bank [1]. 1. Set up the general supply of Thread and Lace tokens in a convenient space near the board [1]. 10. Give each player a personal supply consisting of: 15 Livre, 1 Lace token, and 1 Thread token [1]. 11. Determine a Start Player (the last player to use a needle and thread) and give them the Start Player token [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)

🔧 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 204 ms · ask 9330 ms · total 9545 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9545 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)", "sharpsignalDocId": 429}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 429 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 429 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 05:02

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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …	p.6	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Claim the Queen's Favor · 2. Acquire Resources · OR · Note: · Example:	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS · Note: · Apprentice · Notes:	p.7	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Start Employee Cards · Level I Employee Cards · Level II Employee Cards	p.12	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	2. Acquire Resources · 3. Tailor a Garment	p.17	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 204 ms · first delta 6571 ms · total 9545 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 204 ms · ask 9330 ms · gateway work 9545 ms · total 9545 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4372
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 404
tok/sec: 137.6 tok/sec — 404 output tokens in 2.935 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 31s 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 358), 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.