You asked
What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Kingsburgbg-27162-en-1e
Before the game begins, the following must be placed on the table: 1. The game board in the center of the play area [1]. 2. The season marker on the Aid from the King space (#1) of the Calendar Track [1]. 3. The year marker on the first space of the Year Track (with the Roman numeral 'I') [1]. 4. White dice and '+2' tokens on their matching space on the game board [1]. 5. The King's Envoy marker on the #5 space of the Calendar Track [1]. 6. Goods cubes on their corresponding areas of the game board to act as the supply [1]. 7. Your province sheet faceup in front of you, along with your dice and building tokens [1]. 8. One disc token of your color on the '0' space of the Soldiers Chart and one on the '0' space of the Scoring Track [1]. 9. One of each player's disc tokens on the Turn Order Chart in a random order [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 219 ms · ask 6422 ms · total 51181 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 44531 ms · generation 6650 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "All productive seasons (spring, summer, and autumn) are broken down into four steps, carried out by all players in this order: Roll Dice and Adjust the Turn Order Chart Influence the King's Advisors Receive Help from the Advisors Construct Buildings ! There is a special rule for the 'b) Influence th", "headingPath": "Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "If you have no colored dice left, or if you cannot legally place the dice you have left, you must pass. When all players have passed, proceed to the next step. Example: Ann, noticing that no other player rolled a “1,” places her two dice (5, 3) on the Treasurer (#8) space. It’s now Cindy’s turn. She", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "The King needs all of his governors to improve their provinces, so he will assist any governor that falls behind the rest. The player with the fewest constructed buildings (if there is a tie for fewest, the tied player with the least number of goods) rolls an additional white die during the spring s", "headingPath": "Phase 1: Aid from the King", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "3 3 Continued The Turn Order Chart is now arranged: Ann goes first (lowest total), then Cindy (same dice total as David, but her token was in a higher position than David’s), and David, with Brian last (highest total). b) Influence the King’s Advisors In turn order, players now have the opportunity ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "After the winter season (Phase 8) is finished, the current year comes to an end. Move the marker on the Year Track down one space. If it is the end of the fifth year (year 'V'), the game ends. Otherwise, a new year begins with Phase 1 again. Proceed through all eight phases every year. At the end of", "headingPath": "End of the Year · Winning the Game · Special Rule for Two-Player Games", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "KING: Take 1 gold, 1 wood, and 1 stone from the supply AND Recruit 1 soldier (advance your token one space on the Soldiers Chart). When all of the advisors have given their gifts, take your dice off the game board and return them to your supply. Any '+2' tokens or white dice used are returned to the", "headingPath": "c) Receive Help from the Advisors", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "The King is pleased with his 'best' governor (according to his judgment): the player with the most buildings is rewarded with one bonus VP. If there is a tie (for number of buildings), all tied players are awarded one VP. After the Scoring Track is adjusted, proceed to the next phase. Summer is reso", "headingPath": "Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer - Second Productive Season", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "Divide the Enemies Cards into five small stacks, by the number on the backs. Shuffle each stack separately and randomly select one card from each stack without looking at them. Make one pile of five cards in numerical order (with the 'I' card on top and the 'V' card at the bottom) and place them fac", "headingPath": "Setup · Goal · How to Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 532}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 532 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 532 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 08:03
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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | Phase 2: Spring - First Productive Season | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | p.3 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | Phase 1: Aid from the King | p.2 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | p.3 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | End of the Year · Winning the Game · Special Rule for Two-Player Games | p.7 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | c) Receive Help from the Advisors | p.4 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | Phase 3: The King's Reward · Phase 4: Summer - Second Productive Season | p.5 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | Setup · Goal · How to Play | p.2 | 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 Kingsburg — Rulebook (corpus doc 532) | Setup | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 219 ms · first delta 5089 ms · total 51181 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 44531 ms · retrieval 219 ms · ask 6422 ms · gateway work 6650 ms · total 51181 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3872
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 222
- tok/sec
- 148.5 tok/sec — 222 output tokens in 1.495 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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 464), 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.