Ruling — Ginkgopolis

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

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1. Place the 9 starting buildings (1–3 of each color) and the 12 Urbanization tokens (A–L) [1][2]. 2. Randomly place the 9 Building tiles numbered 1, 2, and 3 (one such for each color) to form a 3×3 square [3]. 3. Shuffle the remaining Building tiles and make several piles; with 2–3 players, remove 6 tiles from the game [1][3][2]. 4. Place the success points and Construction Site pawns near the Building tiles [1][3][2]. 5. Each player chooses a color and receives a screen and 2 New Hand tokens [1][3][2]. 6. Set up the Resources supply by placing resources of the chosen color in the general supply (25 for 2 players; 20 for 3 players; 18 for 4 players; or 16 for 5 players) [1][3][2]. 7. Form the deck by shuffling together the 12 Urbanization cards (A–L) and the 9 starting Building cards (the cards numbered 1-3) [1][3][2]. 8. With 2–3 players, put 7 cards on the discard [1][3][2]. 9. Form 3 piles of building cards numbered 4–20 [1][3][2]. 10. Each player receives 3 characters (in an introductory game) or drafts 3 characters each (by receiving 4 and choosing one) [1][3][2]. 11. Place the 3 selected Character cards in front of the screen [3]. 12. Take the Building tiles, resources, and success points indicated in the upper-left corner of the Character cards and place them behind the screen [3][2]. 13. The player who last planted a tree receives the First Player card and deals 4 cards from the deck to each player [3][2].

[1] RULEBOOK Ginkgopolis — Rulebook · p.8 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Ginkgopolis — Rulebook · p.8 · Thanks · Setup · Game Turn

[3] RULEBOOK Ginkgopolis — Rulebook · p.2 · 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 309 ms · ask 7675 ms · total 7997 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7997 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 510 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 510 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 06:01

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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	EXAMPLE	p.2	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	EXAMPLE · 3. Prepare for the next round	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	Playing the game · 1. Choose a card · NEW HAND · 2. Resolve actions · A. Exploiting: Playing a card by itself	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	Thanks · Setup · Game Turn	p.8	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	EXAMPLE · End of the Game	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	EXAMPLE	p.3	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	Playing a round of the game : · Specifics: · End of the Game · Expert level	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)		p.8	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 Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)		p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	Thanks · Setup · Game Turn	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Ginkgopolis — Rulebook (corpus doc 510)	Setup	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 309 ms · first delta 4692 ms · total 7997 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 309 ms · ask 7675 ms · gateway work 7997 ms · total 7997 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4348
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 450
tok/sec: 138.6 tok/sec — 450 output tokens in 3.247 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 55s 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 442), 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.