Ruling — Frostpunk: The Board Game

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Frostpunk: The Board Gamebg-311988-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Each player must choose and discard one of their Citizen cards by placing it face up in a discard pile to the right of the Citizen deck [1]. 2. A player must pay the starting cost of the card (shown in the upper-right corner) to discard a card in this way [1]. 3. If a player is unable to discard any card because they cannot pay any of the starting costs, they discard any one Citizen card from their hand, ignoring the cost, but add 1 sick Citizen of the discarded Citizen card type instead [1]. 4. Each player starts the game with 4 Citizen cards in their hand [1]. 5. Place the Phase tracker card nearby with the Phase marker on the Action Phase space [1]. 6. Take the Scenario cards for the chosen scenario and place them in the Scenario display along the top-right edge of the map as indicated in the Scenario Book [1]. 7. Place any Scenario Trigger tokens on the appropriate spaces on the Round track, as shown on the Scenario cards [1]. 8. Place the Storm card for your chosen scenario face down to the left of the Weather deck [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook · p.15 ·

🔧 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 243 ms · ask 14817 ms · total 52263 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 37194 ms · generation 15069 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 439}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 439 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 439 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 05:07

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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)	Note: Phases 1-5 are skipped in the first Round of the game.	p.18	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.5	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)	A new day begins and the burden of leadership passes on. · 2. MORNING PHASE · REVEAL A MORNING CARD	p.19	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.19	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)	6. ACTION PHASE · PLAYER TURNS	p.22	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.8	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.15	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.14	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 Frostpunk: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 439)		p.15	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 243 ms · first delta 12668 ms · total 52263 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 37194 ms · retrieval 243 ms · ask 14817 ms · gateway work 15069 ms · total 52263 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4613
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 255
tok/sec: 108.4 tok/sec — 255 output tokens in 2.352 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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 370), 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.