Ruling — Carpe Diem

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Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

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Asked with: Carpe Diembg-245934-en-1e

Before anyone takes a turn, everything is laid out as follows: 1. Punch all pieces out of the component boards [1]. 2. Place the game board in the center of the table [1]. 3. Assemble 4 random frame parts into a square frame and place them in front of you [1]. 4. Place 1 city district board inside the frame so that the handle of the shovel in the center points to the top right [1]. 5. Place 9 writs on the nine writ spaces on your city district board [1]. 6. Place 1 resource board next to your district [1]. 7. Place 1 patrician (in a color of your choice) on any unoccupied blue rectangle outlined by blue in the center of the game board [1]. 8. Place 5 marker discs in the color of your patrician on the basket on your resource board [1]. 9. Separate the 60 forum cards into piles according to their backs (A, B, C, D) and shuffle each stack [1]. 10. Take a number of cards from each pile depending on the number of players: * 2 players: 8 cards (2 A + 2 B + 2 C + 2 D) [1] * 3 players: 10 cards (2 A + 3 B + 2 C + 3 D) [1] * 4 players: 12 cards (3 A + 3 and 3 B + 2 C + 4 D) [1] 11. Shuffle these cards thoroughly and place them faceup on the forum spaces of the game board, leaving specific corner spaces empty based on player count: * In a two-player game, leave all corner spaces empty [1]. * In a three-player game, leave two opposing corner spaces empty [1]. * In a four-player game, use all twelve spaces [1]. 12. Return any remaining forum cards to the box [1]. 13. Shuffle the 24 fountain cards and place them in a face-down pile next to the game board [2]. 14. Sort the 66 victory point cards into five piles according to their point value [2]. 15. Separate the white and black building tiles and shuffle each stack separately, placing them facedown in piles next to the game board [2]. 16. Place four randomly selected white building tiles on each of the blueprint tile spaces on the game board and turn them all faceup [2]. 17. Place one randomly selected black building tile on each of the square spaces on the bottom margin of the game board and turn them all faceup [2]. 18. Place the 20 goods, plus all coins and bread tokens, in separate piles next to the game board [2]. 19. Give the starting player token to the youngest player (or the player born furthest from 1 BC) [2]. 20. The starting player places one marker on the 0 space of the prestige bar [2]. 21. Other players stack one of their markers on top of the starting player's marker in clockwise order [2]. 22. Distribute victory point cards to players in clockwise order: * Starting player: 8 cards [2] * Second player: 9 cards [2] * Third player: 13 cards (if 3 players) or 10 cards (if 4 players) [2] * Fourth player: 11 cards (if 4 players) [2]

[1] RULEBOOK Carpe Diem — Rulebook · p.2 · GAME SETUP · Each player takes: · 3 players · 4 players · Game Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Carpe Diem — Rulebook · p.3 · Each player takes: · 2 players · 3 players · 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 271 ms · ask 9231 ms · total 9512 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9512 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME SETUP · Each player takes: · 3 players · 4 players · Game Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 481}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Each player takes: · 2 players · 3 players · 4 players", "sharpsignalDocId": 481}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 481 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 481 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 05:53

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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	PLAYING THE GAME · Movement Rules · Phases 2-4 · 2- and 3-player Games	p.4	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	2. F R M P ASE	p.8	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	Playing the Game	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	GAME SETUP · Each player takes: · 3 players · 4 players · Game Setup	p.2	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	1. B I DI G P ASE · Landscapes · Landscapes:	p.5	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	A and B Cards (red stripe cards) · Forum Cards	p.9	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	C Cards (green stripe cards) · D Cards (green stripe cards) · You may pay three bread to meet the requirement in the top half of a card.	p.10	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	Craftsman (green roof) · Villas · Markets, Bakeries, and Fountains · Market · Bakery · Fountain · …	p.7	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 Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	GAME SETUP · Each player takes: · 3 players · 4 players · Game Setup	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Carpe Diem — Rulebook (corpus doc 481)	Each player takes: · 2 players · 3 players · 4 players	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 271 ms · first delta 3872 ms · total 9512 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 271 ms · ask 9231 ms · gateway work 9512 ms · total 9512 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4025
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 774
tok/sec: 138.5 tok/sec — 774 output tokens in 5.590 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 412), 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.