Ruling — 1960: The Making of the President

← 1960: The Making of the President

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How do I setup the game?

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1. Place the state seals face-up in their corresponding states [1]. 2. Place the appropriate number of state support cubes in each state as indicated by candidate icons; each icon represents one point of starting Support [1]. 3. Place the candidate tokens in their home states: Kennedy in Massachusetts and Nixon in California [1]. 4. Place the issue tiles on their indicated spaces on the Issues Track [1]. 5. Place the Turn Track and Phase Track markers (white cubes) on the first spaces of the Turn and Phase Tracks [1]. 6. Each player chooses a side and takes: the cube supply of the appropriate color, the appropriate Candidate Card, and two momentum markers [1]. 7. Seed the Political Capital Bag with twelve cubes from each player [1]. 8. Shuffle the Campaign Card deck and place it facedown near the board [1]. 9. Shuffle the Endorsement Card deck and place it facedown near the board with the stockpile of Endorsement Markers [1]. 10. Set the Debate Board aside for now [1]. 11. Each player removes their Vice President Card from the Campaign Card deck, placing it to one side with their Candidate Card [2].

[1] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.6 · Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase

[2] RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook · p.14 · Vice President Cards

🔧 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 239 ms · ask 11211 ms · total 11460 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 11460 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 397}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Vice President Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 397}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 397 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 397 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 06:52

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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase	p.6	0.048916 (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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	B) Play a Card for Campaign Points · Triggering Events	p.7	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	1. Initiative Phase · 2. Five Activity Phases · Normal Event · Persistent Event · Player Aid · Play a Card for Campaign Points · …	p.20	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	3. Set the Stage · 4. Debate! · Debate Icons	p.12	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	3 CP available · B3. Positioning on Issues	p.10	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	C) Play a Candidate Card · Step 1 - Momentum Decay · Step 2 - Issue Shift	p.10	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Increasing State Support	p.8	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Campaign Strategy	p.17	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 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Setting Up The Game · Sequence of Play · 1. Initiative Phase	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 1960: The Making of the President — Rulebook (corpus doc 397)	Vice President Cards	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 239 ms · first delta 9572 ms · total 11460 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 239 ms · ask 11211 ms · gateway work 11460 ms · total 11460 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3453
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 253
tok/sec: 138.2 tok/sec — 253 output tokens in 1.831 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s 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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 326), 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.