You asked
What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Men-Neferbg-404431-en-1e
1. Place the Main Board on the table with the side corresponding to the number of players [1]. 2. Place the Quarry next to the bottom left corner of the Main Board and place the Pyramid Pieces on it: separate Great Pyramid Pieces into 3 piles for Levels I, II, and III, shuffle each pile separately, and place them face-up in the Quarry marked with, each pile in its corresponding space, and the Pyramidion in its space (IIII) [1]. 3. In 2 or 3 player games, place the top piece of the Level I pile in the Great Pyramid Space on the Main Board marked with [2A] [1]. 4. Separate the Queens' Pyramids Pieces into 3 piles for Levels I, II, and III, and place them in the Quarry marked with, each pile in its corresponding space, and the Pyramidions in their space (IIII) [1]. 5. In 3 player games, place the Level I pieces in the 3 Pyramids [1]. 6. In 2 player games, also place the Level II pieces in the 3 Pyramids [1]. 7. Shuffle the Queens' Pyramids Tiles and randomly place one face-up Tile in each of the 3 spaces marked with next to those Pyramids [1]. 8. Place the Narrator Token in space I of the Era Track [1]. 9. Shuffle the Mastaba Tiles and randomly place one face-up Tile in each of the 5 spaces marked with around the Necropolis [1]. 10. Shuffle the Deities and randomly place one face-up on the Temple Altar [1]. 11. Shuffle the Crafts inside their Bag, draw 4 at random, and place them face-up, from left to right, in the 4 spaces of the Craft Market [1]. 12. Shuffle the Papyri inside their Bag, draw 4 at random, and place them face-up, from left to right, in the 4 spaces of the Papyrus Market [1]. 13. Shuffle the 6 City Benefit Tokens and randomly place one face-up Token in each of the 6 spaces marked with in each City along the Nile River [1]. 14. Separate the Trade Contracts into 3 piles based on the value on their back (1, 2, and 3), shuffle each pile face-down separately, and place them next to the Main Board [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 250 ms · ask 10438 ms · total 33569 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 22870 ms · generation 10699 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 6, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "22 A Scarab on the starting space of each of the 5 Specialisation T racks on the Main Board. 23 The Orb on the starting space at the base of the Obelisk on the Main Board. 24 The 4 Priestesses in front of the Temple entrance on the Main Board. 25 The 4 Boats on the starting section of the Nile River", "headingPath": "PLAYERS AND ACTION TABLETS", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Rearrange each player's Water Lily on the Turn Order Track according to their PP: the player with the least PP is placed in the first position; the player with the second least PP is placed in the second position; and so on. In case of a tie in PP , the positions remain as they are. This phase is pl", "headingPath": "Turn Order · PHASE 2. SOWING (PERET)", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "13 Take a Personal Board at random (the only difference between Boards is the sequence of hieroglyphs). Choose a colour and place: 14 An Apprentice on each of the spaces marked with on your Board. 15 The 4 Sphinxes in the Sphinx Reserve on your Board. 16 The 4 Mummies/Sarcophagi, with the Mummy side", "headingPath": "PLAYERS AND ACTION TABLETS", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "If you have at least one Sarcophagus available, place it in an empty space in the Necropolis. At the top of the Necropolis, there are 3 Levels (I, II, and III) that divide the spaces into columns. You can only place your Sarcophagus in a space whose level is equal to or lower than the level of the a", "headingPath": "Funerary Rite", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 17, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "If your Heart and Feather have not crossed, you lose 1 PP for each space between them; if your Heart and Feather have crossed, you gain 1 PP for each space between them. The white player loses 2 PP because their Heart and Feather have not crossed, and there are 2 spaces between them. Turn over all y", "headingPath": "The Duat · Trade Contracts", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "To carry out this option, you need to have at least one empty space for Tablets on your Board. Follow these steps in order: Choose one of the 5 available Tablets on the Main Board. Note: You cannot choose the top T ablet from the pile placed on , remember that this is the Draw Pile. Spend/obtain the", "headingPath": "Obtain an Action Tablet", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "You must place the Papyri you acquire at the bottom of your Board, always from left to right and without leaving gaps between them, thus writing your Book of the Dead. At the end of each Era, you will 'roll up' all the acquired Papyri, and you can advance your Feather one step on the Duat Meter for ", "headingPath": "THE PAPYRI · THE MUMMIES", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "In a later turn, the white player decides to specialise the Apprentice they had previously placed on the Sun side of the House of Life dedicated to the Necropolis. They move that Apprentice to the Moon space, and since there is already another Apprentice there, they spend 1 Food to move theirs [A]. ", "headingPath": "Specialise in a House of Life", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "VIDEOTUTORIAL", "sharpsignalDocId": 528}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 528 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 528 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | PLAYERS AND ACTION TABLETS | p.6 | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | Turn Order · PHASE 2. SOWING (PERET) | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | PLAYERS AND ACTION TABLETS | p.5 | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | Funerary Rite | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | The Duat · Trade Contracts | p.17 | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | Obtain an Action Tablet | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | THE PAPYRI · THE MUMMIES | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | Specialise in a House of Life | p.10 | 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 Men-Nefer — Rulebook (corpus doc 528) | VIDEOTUTORIAL | p.5 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 250 ms · first delta 6811 ms · total 33569 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 22870 ms · retrieval 250 ms · ask 10438 ms · gateway work 10699 ms · total 33569 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4322
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 524
- tok/sec
- 136.9 tok/sec — 524 output tokens in 3.828 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 459), 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.