You asked
Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: The King's Dilemmabg-245655-en-1e
1. Place the Realm board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Place each Resource marker in the corresponding space of the center row of the Resource Track [1]. 3. Randomly determine which side of each marker is facing up by throwing the pieces like a coin to get random white or black color results [1]. 4. Place the Stability marker on the middle space of the Stability Track [1].
🔧 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 293 ms · ask 13939 ms · total 14244 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 14244 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 8, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The game is played in rounds, with each round divided into 5 phases: Draw and Read a Card from the Dilemma Deck . Place the Outcome Tokens on the Balance . Vote of the Council . Vote Resolution . Dilemma Resolution . They are all related to the card drawn from the Dilemma deck at the beginning of th", "headingPath": "PLAYING THE GAME · PHASES OF THE ROUND", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "8 Place your House screen in front of you, then take 1 AYE, 1 NAY, and 1 PASS card and place them face up in front of your House screen. They will be used during the Voting Phase . Put any unused cards back in the box. r Place 8 Power tokens and 10 Coins behind your House screen. Note that all House", "headingPath": "GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "The Voting Phase ends when the player to the right of the Leader ends their turn. Add up the total Power played on all AYE and NAY cards respectively. The side that has the most Power wins, which determines the Outcome of the Dilemma card. In case of a tie , the Outcome must be determined by the Mod", "headingPath": "4. Vote Resolution · perform cleAnup After the Vote", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "At the end of your voting turn, if you are now the player with the most Power on your Vote (no matter which side you chose), you immediately take the Leader token . Do not take the Leader token if you only equal the highest bidder ' s amount of Power . The position of the Leader token is crucial in ", "headingPath": "pAss And become moderAtor", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "r q Unless the Dilemma card explicitly tells you otherwise, put the Dilemma card halfway under the left edge of the game board with the back side facing up , next to the top empty space of the Time Counter , so that the winning outcome is still visible ( q ). at happens if you choose to answer This ", "headingPath": "ending cArds, nArrAtiVe AchieVements, And mAjority signer bonuses 00 30/04/19 17:12 · e. plAce the dilemmA cArd on the time counter", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "When choosing your Secret Agenda, keep in mind that using the same Secret Agenda in more than one game will allow you to unlock a small achievement (see page 13). Each House screen also shows the 'Alignment' of your House, i.e., your two 'favorite' Secret Agenda cards. Unlocking the corresponding ac", "headingPath": "HOUSE ALIGNMENT · THE SAVE SLOTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "There are two kinds of special Dilemma cards that must never be placed on the Time Counter: Event cards (w) and Trigger cards (e). Both are placed in the Event area of the Realm board, instead. Follow the instructions on the cards themselves when you encounter one of these cards! f. end of the round", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "You will have to keep the kingdom going while also seeking an advantage for your own House; this power struggle may lead the kingdom into war, famine, or riot, or it could generate wealth and well-being. It will depend on your choices! Each decision has consequences, though: what is good for the kin", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 518}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 518 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 518 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 06:02
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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | PLAYING THE GAME · PHASES OF THE ROUND | p.8 | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | GAME SETUP | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | 4. Vote Resolution · perform cleAnup After the Vote | p.11 | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | pAss And become moderAtor | p.10 | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | ending cArds, nArrAtiVe AchieVements, And mAjority signer bonuses 00 30/04/19 17:12 · e. plAce the dilemmA cArd on the time counter | p.15 | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | HOUSE ALIGNMENT · THE SAVE SLOTS | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | 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 The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | p.3 | 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
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK The King's Dilemma — Rulebook (corpus doc 518) | GAME SETUP | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 293 ms · first delta 13531 ms · total 14244 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 293 ms · ask 13939 ms · gateway work 14244 ms · total 14244 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4968
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 88
- tok/sec
- 136.9 tok/sec — 88 output tokens in 0.643 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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 446), 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.