You asked
How many duchys
Answered counted as answeredUse 8 copies of Duchy for a 2-player game [1]. Use 12 copies of Duchy for 3-4 players [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 220 ms · ask 6536 ms · total 6766 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 6766 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Whichever 10 cards you pick, get out those piles - 10 copies of each card (do not put the randomizer card in the pile). When a Victory Kingdom card is used (e.g. Gardens), it gets 8 copies for 2 players, 12 copies for 3-4 players, as with the other Victory cards. Put the Trash mat near the piles. Up", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "Updated kingdom randomizer 2nd.indd 1 Each player takes 3 Estates and 7 Coppers and shuffles them face down as a starting deck. Place 17 face-up piles of cards on the table: the 7 Base card piles, which are always used, and always the same, and 10 Kingdom card piles, which vary from game to game. Th", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "For example if you start a turn by playing Throne Room on Village, you would draw a card, get +2 Actions, draw another card, and get +2 Actions again, leaving you with 4 Actions. If you Throne Room a Throne Room, you may play an Action card twice, then may play another Action card twice; you do not ", "headingPath": "1st turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "Players can play Dominion with any set of 10 Kingdom cards, but these sets have been specially picked out to be entertaining and show off card interactions and strategies. Dominion now has a large number of expansions with which you can add to your fun. We have included recommended sets for those ex", "headingPath": "1st turn", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "You are a monarch, like your parents before you - a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes...dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers, and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions l", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "High and Low: Cellar, Moneylender, Throne Room, Witch, Workshop · Hermit, Hunting Grounds, Mystic, Poor House, Wandering Minstrel Chivalry and Revelry: Festival, Gardens, Laboratory, Library, Remodel · Altar, Knights, Rats, Scavenger, Squire", "headingPath": "Dominion & Dark Ages:", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "Highway Robbery: Cellar, Library, Moneylender, Throne Room, Workshop · Highway, Inn, Margrave, Noble Brigand, Oasis Adventures Abroad: Festival, Laboratory, Remodel, Sentry, Vassal · Crossroads, Farmland, Fool's Gold, Oracle, Spice Merchant", "headingPath": "Dominion & Hinterlands:", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "Underlings: Cellar, Festival, Library, Sentry, Vassal · Courtier, Diplomat, Minion, Nobles, Pawn Grand Scheme: Artisan, Council Room, Market, Militia, Workshop · Bridge, Mill, Mining Village, Patrol, Shanty Town Deconstruction: Bandit, Mine, Remodel, Throne Room, Village · Diplomat, Harem, Lurker, R", "headingPath": "Dominion & Intrigue:", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 102}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- 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
- Oct 26, 2026 19:22
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | p.3 | 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 | |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | p.3 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 | |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | 1st turn | p.14 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | 1st turn | p.15 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | p.1 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 | |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | Dominion & Dark Ages: | p.16 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 241 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | Dominion & Hinterlands: | p.16 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 240 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | Dominion & Intrigue: | p.15 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 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 Dominion — Rulebook (corpus doc 102) | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 220 ms · first delta n/a · total 6766 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 0 ms · retrieval 220 ms · ask 6536 ms · gateway work 6766 ms · total 6766 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s ago)
- stream path
- not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
- 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 33), 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.