Ruling — Kutná Hora: The City of Silver

You asked

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

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Kutná Hora: The City of Silverbg-385610-en-1e

1. Place the card stands where everyone can see them [1]. 2. Set the indicator arms on the left, showing only numbers in the leftmost column [1]. 3. Check that cards are in numerical order, starting with card 0 in front and the turn-over card in the very back [1]. 4. Set up St. Barbara's Cathedral where everyone can see it, arranging the 11 tiles in order (1-5 on the bottom, 6-10 in the middle, and 11 on top) [1]. 5. Keep coins, patrician tokens, and pelican tokens near the board to form a bank [1]. 6. Use exactly 3 patrician tokens of each color [1]. 7. Place the 4 mining technology tiles in a face-down stack, with the tile with 1 on top [1]. 8. Group mine tiles face down according to their backs, shuffle each stack, and create a mining tile stack with tiles on top, tiles in the middle, and tiles on the bottom [1]. 9. Place the mining tile stack in the middle of the prospecting board, leaving one space empty for the discard pile [1]. 10. Assemble the Kutná Hora board with the correct side up (the side with more squares for 3- or 4-player games, and the side with fewer squares for 2-player games) [2]. 11. Place the rounds counter on the first space of the rounds track [2]. 12. Place the tax counter on space 0 of the tax track at the bottom of the rounds track [2]. 13. Place the 3 red-patrician buildings in a stack on the marked square on the rounds track that shows when they come into play [2]. 14. Group guild buildings into 6 stacks by color, take the tile with the marked corner from each stack, shuffle them, and deal them randomly to the 6 spaces in the two leftmost columns [2]. 15. Place the remaining 3 tiles from each guild stack in a random order atop the matching tile on the board [2]. 16. Group green, silver, and yellow patrician buildings into 3 stacks by color, mix each stack randomly, and place them at the end of a row on the space corresponding to the depicted patrician [2]. 17. Choose one mine setup card at random [2]. 18. Shuffle rock tiles face down, deal them to the mining spaces depicted on the setup card, and turn them face up [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook · p.5 · CARD STANDS · ST. BARBARA'S CATHEDRAL · BANK · MINES

[2] RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook · p.4 · ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup

🔧 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 283 ms · ask 11338 ms · total 11634 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 11634 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "CARD STANDS · ST. BARBARA'S CATHEDRAL · BANK · MINES", "sharpsignalDocId": 504}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 504}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 504 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 504 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 05:59

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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Gameplay	p.9	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	End of Round · Taxes · Setup for Next Round · Red-Patrician Buildings · Event Card	p.16	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)		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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	How to Win	p.9	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	CARD STANDS · ST. BARBARA'S CATHEDRAL · BANK · MINES	p.5	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	End of Game · Kutná Hora · Mines · Income · Reputation · Extras · …	p.17	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	Two-Player Game - Event Card Setup	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 Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	CARD STANDS · ST. BARBARA'S CATHEDRAL · BANK · MINES	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kutná Hora: The City of Silver — Rulebook (corpus doc 504)	ROUNDS TRACK · TOWN HALL BOARD · KUTNÁ HORA BOARD · Setup	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 283 ms · first delta 7556 ms · total 11634 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 283 ms · ask 11338 ms · gateway work 11634 ms · total 11634 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3943
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 547
tok/sec: 136.5 tok/sec — 547 output tokens in 4.006 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 2s 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 435), 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.