Ruling — World Wonders

You asked

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

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: World Wondersbg-365258-en-1e

1. Place the Main Board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Add the necessary Player Expansion Boards and Building Tiles according to the number of players: - For 1 to 3 players, use only the Main Board and its Building Tiles [1]. - For 4 players, add the 4th Player Expansion Board and its Building Tiles [1]. - For 5 players, add the 4th and 5th Player Expansion Boards and their Building Tiles [1]. 3. Shuffle the Building Tiles by shape and place each stack face down onto the position indicated on its board [1]. 4. Reveal the top tile of each stack and place it on the table directly below [1]. 5. Place the 1st and 2nd Player Turn Order Pedestals onto their respective spaces on the Main Board [1]. 6. Each player chooses their color [1]. 7. Draw Player Markers randomly and position them in that order on the Turn Order track on the Main Board [1]. 8. Place Long Road Tiles and Sets of Short Road Tiles below the revealed Building Tiles, according to the number of players: - For 1 or 2 players, place 1 Long Road and 1 set of Short Roads [1]. - For 3 players, place 2 Long Roads and 1 set of Short Roads [1]. - For 4 players, place 2 Long Roads and 2 sets of Short Roads [1]. - For 5 players, place 3 Long Roads and 2 sets of Short Roads [1]. 9. Set the remaining Road Tiles aside for future rounds [1]. 10. Place 1 Tower alongside the starting Road Tiles; set the rest of the Towers aside for future rounds [1]. 11. Shuffle the Monument Cards and reveal 3, putting their respective Monuments onto each one [1]. 12. Leave the rest of the Monument deck face down nearby with the rest of the Monuments [1]. 13. Place the Loan Tiles in a pile face up next to the Main Board [1]. 14. Place 1 Map Board in front of each player, ensuring all players use the same side (Side A has a lake in the middle; Side B has a different river on each) [1]. 15. Give each player 1 Long Road Tile [1]. 16. Give each player the Resource Board of their color to place next to their Map Board, ensuring all players use the same side (A or B) [1]. 17. Give each player 1 Gold, 1 Population, and 3 Resource Markers to place onto the starting position (0) of each track on their Resource Board [1].

[1] RULEBOOK World Wonders — Rulebook · p.2 · GAME COMPONENTS

🔧 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 301 ms · ask 8337 ms · total 8648 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8648 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME COMPONENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 488}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 488 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 488 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 05:55

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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	ACTIONS · Example:	p.3	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	The turn order in the following round will be:	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	GAME COMPONENTS	p.3	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	GAME COMPONENTS	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	LOANS	p.4	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	PLACING PIEC ES ON THE MAP	p.4	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	Example Cards:	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	LOANS	p.5	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 World Wonders — Rulebook (corpus doc 488)	GAME COMPONENTS	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 301 ms · first delta 4620 ms · total 8648 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 301 ms · ask 8337 ms · gateway work 8648 ms · total 8648 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3279
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 585
tok/sec: 148.3 tok/sec — 585 output tokens in 3.944 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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 419), 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.