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What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Barcelonabg-383607-en-1e
To set up the game before the first round begins, perform the following steps in order: 1. Separate the Sagrada Família tiles by level and place them next to the board [1]. 2. Create two separate piles of Coins and Cloth tokens next to the main board to form the general supply [1]. 3. Place your player board in front of you on the table [1]. 4. Place a small disk on the leftmost space of the Sagrada Família track [1]. 5. Place five cubes next to the Modernisme Project Spaces—one on each bottom space to the right [1]. 6. Place the main board in the middle of the table [1]. 7. Place a Building Bonus tile in each of the four dedicated spaces on the main board [1]. 8. Shuffle all the Action tiles and place one on each Action tile space on the main board (though for your first game, you may skip this step and use the printed setup instead) [1]. 9. In a game with fewer than 4 players, place a Citizen token of the corresponding type on each marked space on the Citizen tracks on the main board, covering spaces marked with 3 in a 3 player game and both 3 and 2 spaces in a 2 player game; place all remaining Citizen tokens in the cloth bag [1]. 10. Randomly select three Cerdà Scoring tiles and place them on their designated spaces [1]. 11. Remove the Modernisme tiles that correspond to the three Cerdà Scoring tiles placed on the Citizen track, returning them to the game box [1]. 12. Shuffle the remaining Modernisme tiles to create a face-down stack, placing the stack on its dedicated space [1]. 13. Reveal the top four tiles and place them on their reserved spaces [1]. 14. Separate the Public Service tiles by type, stack them in descending order of cost (with a tile costing 3 Coins on top), randomly select five of these stacks, and put them on their spaces on the side board, returning the other two to the box [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 259 ms · ask 9031 ms · total 23435 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 14132 ms · generation 9303 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Before your first game, carefully punch out all components from the punchboards. We also recommend that you apply the Tram stickers to their wooden components, though this is not mandatory. To set up the game, perform the following steps in order: a cost on the left and benefits on the right) facing", "headingPath": "Missing or damaged components : · 2. Prepare the side board.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Example: Blue takes a Build an Intersection action, building their third Intersection. They first pay 2 Coins (printed on their player board) and then select a space for the Intersection. The chosen space has an additional cost of 1 Coin, which Blue also pays immediately. After placing the Intersect", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Barcelona is played over a variable number of rounds interrupted by three scoring phases before a final scoring phase. Every round, each player takes a single turn consisting of two or more actions, a building phase, and then preparation for their next turn. At the end of the game, the player with t", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Either gain 1 Cloth and 3 Victory Points or gain 2 Coins. You must always place Coins and Cloth into your Warehouse on your player board. Each space of your Warehouse can store exactly 1 Coin or 1 Cloth. Any Coins or Cloths that you cannot store in your Warehouse must be immediately returned to the ", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Place the Tram and your remaining five cubeshenceforth referred to as your \"Passengers\"-on the corresponding spaces of the Tram area c . Create a stack of 4 Narrow Street tiles, and place them on the leftmost dedicated space below the Tram. Place the remaining 6 Narrow Street tiles in a stack on the", "headingPath": "3. Prepare the stacks and general supply. · 5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "These tracks represent the number of Citizens of each type (Working, Middle, or Upper-Class) who have moved to and are living in the Eixample of Barcelona. When adding Citizens, each Citizen type must be placed on its corresponding row on the leftmost empty space. In 2- or 3-player games, the game s", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "After you have finished performing all your actions, if you are able to, you must construct one Building, either on an empty block or on top of an already-built Building. (A block is the smallest square formed by two pairs of parallel, intersecting streets. Blocks on the diagonal street can each hav", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "(If you don't have any Building markers left on your player board, skip this step.) If a stack of Building markers becomes empty as a result of this action, advance one step on the Cerdà track, as printed on your player board. Check if a scoring has been triggered. If so, perform a Cerdà Scoring (se", "headingPath": "5. Prepare for the first turn.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Missing or damaged components : · 2. Prepare the side board.", "sharpsignalDocId": 527}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 527 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 527 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 08:02
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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | Missing or damaged components : · 2. Prepare the side board. | p.4 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.9 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.6 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.7 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 3. Prepare the stacks and general supply. · 5. Prepare for the first turn. | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.14 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.12 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | 5. Prepare for the first turn. | p.12 | 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 Barcelona — Rulebook (corpus doc 527) | Missing or damaged components : · 2. Prepare the side board. | p.4 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 259 ms · first delta 5990 ms · total 23435 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 14132 ms · retrieval 259 ms · ask 9031 ms · gateway work 9303 ms · total 23435 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 5252
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 444
- tok/sec
- 136.2 tok/sec — 444 output tokens in 3.260 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 458), 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.