Ruling — Knarr — RuleSage

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How do I setup the game?

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1. Place the board in the center of the table.[1]

2. Shuffle the Trading Lands cards, form a deck, and place it face down to the side of the board, then reveal the first 3 cards on the designated spaces.[1]

3. Shuffle and place the Lands of Influence cards in the same way.[1]

4. Prepare the Viking cards based on the number of players:

- For 4 players, play with all the cards.[1]

- For 3 players, remove the cards marked 4 at the bottom left.[1]

- For 2 players, remove the cards marked 3 and 4 at the bottom left.[1]

5. Shuffle the Viking cards, form a deck, place it face down to the side of the board, and reveal the first 5 cards on the designated spaces.[1]

6. Each player takes a Ship sheet, 3 Silver Bracelet tokens, and 3 Recruit tokens.[1]

7. Players decide together whether to play with the normal side or the advanced side, and place the ships accordingly.[1]

8. Each player takes 2 Viking cards of different colors from the deck and places them face up in front of them in their Crew Zone.[1]

9. Slide 1 Recruit token and 1 Silver Bracelet token onto the designated spaces on each side of the boat.[1]

10. Take the 2 wooden tokens corresponding to the color of each player’s ship, placing the round one on the starting space of the Score Track and the square one on the starting space of the Reputation Track.[2]

11. Each player draws 3 Viking cards to make up their hand.[2]

12. One player takes the colored Destiny tokens of the ships in play, draws 1 at random, and chooses the first player.[2]

13. (Optional variant) During setup, 1 Artifact card is revealed at random and placed next to the board, while the others are put away in the box.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook · p.4 · COMPONENTS · GAME OBJECTIVE · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook · p.5

[3] RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook · p.10 · END OF THE GAME · ASSETS · PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS

The sage rests. The game continues.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 167 ms · ask 4734 ms · total 4904 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4904 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COMPONENTS · GAME OBJECTIVE · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 468}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 468}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "END OF THE GAME · ASSETS · PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 468}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 468 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 468 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.90318 of 1353 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 23, 2026 13:51 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	COMPONENTS · GAME OBJECTIVE · SETUP	p.4	0.048652 (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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	END OF THE GAME · ASSETS · PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS	p.10	0.047379 (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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	PLAYING THE GAME · REPUTATION	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
#4	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)		p.5	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
#5	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	REPUTATION	p.7	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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	REPUTATION · Discover a new land · At any time	p.8	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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	TRADING	p.9	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 Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS · GLOSSARY	p.11	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 12 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	COMPONENTS · GAME OBJECTIVE · SETUP	p.4	#1	0.048652 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	PLAYING THE GAME · REPUTATION	p.6	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	TRADING	p.9	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	REPUTATION · Discover a new land · At any time	p.8	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS · GLOSSARY	p.11	#8	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	REPUTATION	p.7	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)		p.5	#4	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	END OF THE GAME · ASSETS · PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS	p.10	#2	0.047379 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	COMPONENTS · GAME OBJECTIVE · SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Knarr — Rulebook (corpus doc 468)	END OF THE GAME · ASSETS · PLAYING WITH ARTIFACTS	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 167 ms · first delta 1667 ms · total 4904 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 167 ms · ask 4734 ms · gateway work 4904 ms · total 4904 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2542
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 429
tok/sec: 134.7 tok/sec — 429 output tokens in 3.186 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 4s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 398), 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.