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What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?

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Asked with: Regicidebg-307002-en-1e

To set up the game before the first round begins, follow these steps: 1. Shuffle the 4 Kings and put them facedown in a pile on the table [1]. 2. Shuffle the 4 Queens and put them facedown on top of the Kings [1]. 3. Shuffle the 4 Jacks and put them facedown on top of the Queens to form the Castle deck [1]. 4. Place the Castle deck in the centre of the table and turn the top card face up to reveal a Jack, which becomes the current enemy [1]. 5. Shuffle together all cards numbered 2 to 10 with the 4 Animal Companions and a number of Jesters (based on the number of players) to form the Tavern deck [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Regicide — Rulebook · p.1 · AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP · HOW TO PLAY
🔧 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 222 ms · ask 3214 ms · total 54038 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 50593 ms · generation 3445 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
[{"page": 1, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Step 1 - Play a card or yield Step 2 - Activate the suit power Step 3 - Deal damage to the enemy and check Step 4 - Suffer damage from the enemy STEP ONE Play a card from hand to attack the enemy Play a card from your hand onto the table in front of you. The number of the card determines the attack ", "headingPath": "Each turn has four steps: · HEARTS · DIAMONDS · CLUBS", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Shield against enemy attack: During Step 4, reduce the attack value of the current enemy by the attack value played. The shield effects of spades are cumulative for all spades played against this enemy by any player, and remain in effect until the enemy is defeated. Suit powers are mandatory and can", "headingPath": "SPADES · STEP FOUR", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Players may not communicate to the other players any information which may reveal or suggest the contents of their hand. They may however remind other players of any public information such as how many cards they have in their hand. Some examples of allowed communication are: 'I have two cards in ha", "headingPath": "COMMUNICATION · GAME END · SOLO PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The current player must discard cards from their hand with a total value at least equal to the enemy's attack value. Discard the cards one at a time, faceup to the discard pile. Animal Companions (A) have a value of 1 and the Jester a value of 0 when discarded to cover damage. If the player cannot d", "headingPath": "STEP FOUR · ANIMAL COMPANIONS · COMBOS", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "DESIGN PAUL ABRAHAMS LUKE BADGER ANDY RICHDALE ART SKETCHGOBLIN Regicide is a cooperative game where players work together to defeat 12 powerful enemies. Players take turns to play cards to the table to attack the enemy and once enough damage is dealt, the enemy is defeated. The players win when the", "headingPath": "AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP · HOW TO PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Each enemy is immune to the suit powers of cards played against them which match their suit. For example, players will not draw cards when a diamond is played against the Jack of Diamonds (however the number is still added to the damage total). The Jester can be played to cancel an enemy's immunity.", "headingPath": "ENEMY IMMUNITY · PLAYING THE JESTER · DRAWING A DEFEATED ENEMY · YIELDING", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}]
citations (raw)
[{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP · HOW TO PLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 533}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 533 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 533 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 08:03

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) Each turn has four steps: · HEARTS · DIAMONDS · CLUBS p.1 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 Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) SPADES · STEP FOUR p.1 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 Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) COMMUNICATION · GAME END · SOLO PLAY 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 Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) STEP FOUR · ANIMAL COMPANIONS · COMBOS p.2 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 Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP · HOW TO PLAY p.1 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 Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) ENEMY IMMUNITY · PLAYING THE JESTER · DRAWING A DEFEATED ENEMY · YIELDING p.2 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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Regicide — Rulebook (corpus doc 533) AIM OF THE GAME · SETUP · HOW TO PLAY p.1 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 222 ms · first delta 2324 ms · total 54038 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 50593 ms · retrieval 222 ms · ask 3214 ms · gateway work 3445 ms · total 54038 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
2904
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
161
tok/sec
149.6 tok/sec — 161 output tokens in 1.076 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 465), 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.