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

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Before the first round begins, the following must be placed on the table: 1. A pile of sorted step cards in front of you, with the green card visible on top [1]. 2. A single facedown stack of 10 aging cards (consisting of two shuffled piles: 7 normal and 3 difficult) on the aging storage board [1]. 3. A face-down stack of 18 shuffled starting cards on the Robinson storage board in front of yourself [1]. 4. A face-down stack of 30 shuffled hazard cards on the hazard storage board [1]. 5. Two random pirates placed face-up as opponents [1]. 6. 20 life points for Robinson placed next to your Robinson stack [1]. 7. 2 additional life points as the reserve placed next to the play area [1]. 8. Space set aside next to the Robinson and hazard stacks for the appropriate discard piles [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Friday — Rulebook · p.3 · Your first game starts in Level 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 254 ms · ask 5750 ms · total 135993 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 129979 ms · generation 6014 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
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citations (raw)
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 550 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 550 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 08:04

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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Your first game starts in Level 1: p.3 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Starting and knowledge cards p.11 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) p.9 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Game End · A detailed example of a fight: p.8 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) p.16 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) p.7 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Scoring · During the whole game you always are allowed : · The fighting points and special abilities of the Robinson starting cards and aging cards: p.14 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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Playing the game · 1. Drawing two hazard cards. · 2. Fight against the hazard. p.4 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

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 Friday — Rulebook (corpus doc 550) Your first game starts in Level 1: p.3 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 254 ms · first delta 4484 ms · total 135993 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 129979 ms · retrieval 254 ms · ask 5750 ms · gateway work 6014 ms · total 135993 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3213
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
203
tok/sec
137.3 tok/sec — 203 output tokens in 1.478 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 482), 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.