You asked
What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?
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Before the first round begins, the following items need to be placed on the table: 1. The locomotive and one train car for each player are placed in a row in the center of the table with the locomotive on one end [1]. 2. The Marshal figure and a strongbox are placed inside the locomotive [2]. 3. 13 Neutral Bullet cards are placed in a pile next to the locomotive [2]. 4. Each player's chosen character sheet (or card) is placed in front of them [2]. 5. Each player's $250 purse is placed face-down on their character sheet [2]. 6. Each player's 10 Action cards are placed face-down on their character sheet to form a deck [2]. 7. Each player's 6 Bullet cards are placed on their character sheet in ascending order of number of bullets to form a cylinder pile [2]. 8. The Round deck (formed by shuffling 5 or 7 Round cards) is placed on the table [1]. 9. The First Player draws the top card of the Round deck and places it on the table so everyone can see it [3]. 10. Loot tokens are placed into each car as indicated on the floor of the car [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 272 ms · ask 5491 ms · total 109169 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 103395 ms · generation 5774 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 6, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "A player with Ghost on his team can play his first card face- down even if it is not Ghost’s Action card. He may choose not to play the card face down if, for example, he would like to play an additional Action card using the Cover rule. A player with Doc on his team draws 7 cards in addition to the", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Take the bandit figures corresponding to the chosen characters and randomly choose 1. The player who has chosen this character is the First Player for the first round. Starting with the First Player and proceeding clockwise, players alternate placing their bandit figures in the caboose and the car a", "headingPath": "lAcInG THe B AndITs", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Players play Action cards face-up. Standard Turn - Players play Action cards face-down. Tunnel - Players take 2 turns in a row (players can choose to either play or draw cards on each turn). Speeding-Up - Note - These cards can also show a round's effect (see \"Advanced Rules,\" page 9). Players take ", "headingPath": "types of tUrns · P HASE 2: S TEALIN '! · ND OF TH G AM", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "To win, you must become the richest bandit in the Wild West. To reach this goal, you will try to get more loot than your opponents... without being hit by too many bullets! The best shooter will receive the title of Gunslinger, worth $1000. There are 5 Rounds in a game. Each Round has 2 phases: Phas", "headingPath": "objeCt of the Game · P HASE 1: S CHEMIN '!", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Take the locomotive and 1 train car for each player and form the train be placing them in a row in the center of the table with the locomotive on one end. The car farthest from the locomotive is the caboose. Set aside 1 $250 purse token for each player, then place loot tokens into each car as indica", "headingPath": "set Up", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "C U L E Ludonaute 20 boulevard Dethez 13800 Istres - France contact@ludonaute.fr www.ludonaute.fr E E E Each player adds up the value of his bandits' loot tokens. The Gunslinger prize is awarded to the player whose bandits shot the highest total bullets. C C A player with Ghost on his team can play ", "headingPath": "Hostage Conductor · ND OF TH G AM · HARA TER C LARIFI ATIONS · expert variant · Credits", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "6 98 Chara Cter powers events During your first turn of each round, you can play your Action card face-down. If you choose to draw 3 cards instead of playing an Action card during your first turn, you cannot use Ghost’s power later in the round. At the beginning of each Round, draw 7 cards instead o", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "1110 spe Cial rUles : 2 bandits per player Each player takes 1 copy of each different Action card from each of his bandits’ decks, then sets aside 1 Marshal card and all remaining action cards. He will have 11 cards remaining (see the diagram to the right). Use the Round cards for 2 to 4 players. Fo", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "set Up", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "lAcInG THe B AndITs", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "objeCt of the Game · P HASE 1: S CHEMIN '!", "sharpsignalDocId": 546}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 546 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 546 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 08:04
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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | lAcInG THe B AndITs | p.2 | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | types of tUrns · P HASE 2: S TEALIN '! · ND OF TH G AM | p.3 | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | objeCt of the Game · P HASE 1: S CHEMIN '! | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | set Up | p.2 | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | Hostage Conductor · ND OF TH G AM · HARA TER C LARIFI ATIONS · expert variant · Credits | p.6 | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | p.6 | 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 Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | set Up | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | lAcInG THe B AndITs | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Colt Express — Rulebook (corpus doc 546) | objeCt of the Game · P HASE 1: S CHEMIN '! | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 272 ms · first delta 3738 ms · total 109169 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 103395 ms · retrieval 272 ms · ask 5491 ms · gateway work 5774 ms · total 109169 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4355
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 272
- tok/sec
- 137.3 tok/sec — 272 output tokens in 1.981 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.
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 478), 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.