Ruling — Bruxelles 1893

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

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Asked with: Bruxelles 1893bg-144592-en-1e

Before the first round begins, the following items must be placed on the table: 1. The 5 Action strips are randomly assembled and placed above the Bonus strip to form the Art Nouveau board [1]. 2. The Art Nouveau board is placed to the right of the Brussels board [1]. 3. Each player's personal Architect board is placed on the table, with 6 Building tiles of their chosen color placed on the spaces provided on that board [1]. 4. Each player places 5 Assistant pawns near their personal board and 2 on the Courthouse space of the Brussels board [1]. 5. Each player's color disc is placed on the first shield of the City Hall track, the first Coat of Arms space on the Royal Palace track, the first space of the Architect track on their personal board, and space 0 of the scoring track [1]. 6. Each player's Public Figure card is placed near their personal board [1]. 7. The turn-counting Exhibition tiles are sorted by year (1893-2010) and placed face-down on the provided space on the board, with the first card turned over to show the exhibition poster [1]. 8. The Workshop cursor is placed at the center of the 'workshop' on the Brussels board [1]. 9. Public Figure cards are shuffled and one is placed face-up on each of the four spaces on the right in the Royal Theater on the Brussels board, with the remaining cards forming a deck in the left Royal Theater space [1]. 10. The Stock Exchange cards are shuffled to form a deck and placed on the Stock Exchange space on the board [1]. 11. Color Works of Art tiles are shuffled and placed in a face-down stack next to the gameboard, while black Works of Art tiles are placed in another stack [1]. 12. Each player's randomly drawn starting color Work of Art is placed near their personal board, face-up [1]. 13. The 6 compass tiles are randomly placed on spaces provided around the compass [2]. 14. The 25 Bonus cards are shuffled to form a deck and placed near the gameboard, with one card placed face-up on each space of the Bonus strip [2]. 15. Remaining money and materials cubes are placed in a general supply near the gameboard [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.2 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook · p.3 · CONCEPT OF THE GAME

🔧 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 265 ms · ask 8361 ms · total 177366 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 168730 ms · generation 8636 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 559 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 559 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 08:05

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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	C RESOLUTION OF THE TURN PHASE · 1. Bids on the Art Nouveau board · 2. Designation of the new first player · 3. Using the Bonus cards · There are 4 types of Bonus card:	p.8	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Tucking the card under his personal board	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	5. Majority on the Brussels board	p.10	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	5. Majority on the Brussels board	p.9	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	END OF THE GAME	p.10	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	Royal Theater Action · Two options are then available to him: · Materials Action · Compass rules	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 Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME · HOW TO PLAY	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Bruxelles 1893 — Rulebook (corpus doc 559)	CONCEPT OF THE GAME	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 265 ms · first delta 4906 ms · total 177366 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 168730 ms · retrieval 265 ms · ask 8361 ms · gateway work 8636 ms · total 177366 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4364
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 502
tok/sec: 136.6 tok/sec — 502 output tokens in 3.674 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 12s 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 491), 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.