Ruling — Magic Maze

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How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Magic Maze: Hidden Rolesbg-260658-en-1e

Depending on the type of cards being used, the setup involves the following steps:

For A Cards (Hero/Traitor Cards):

1. Select as many cards marked A as there are players, ensuring one is a traitor and the others are heroes.[1]

2. Shuffle these cards and deal one face down to each player.[1]

3. Secretly look at your card.[1]

4. Place the 'I've got my eye on you' card where everyone can reach it, similar to the 'Do something!' pawn.[1]

For B Cards:

1. Select all cards marked B (8 heroes and 3 traitors).[2]

2. Shuffle and deal one face down to each player.[2]

3. Put away the remaining cards.[2]

4. Secretly look at your card.[2]

For C Cards (Missions and Special Rules):

1. Select all cards marked C (including the 3 traitors).[3]

2. Shuffle and deal one face down to each player.[3]

3. Secretly look at your card.[3]

4. Check the lower part of the card for conditions (such as '3-4 players' or specific game elements).[3]

5. If the current game does not meet the card's conditions, discard it and draw a new one.[3]

6. Once everyone has a card whose conditions are met, put away the rest of the cards.[3]

For D Cards (Variable Cards):

1. Select all cards marked D.[4]

2. Shuffle and deal one face down to each player.[4]

3. Secretly look at your card.[4]

4. Check the conditions on the lower part of your card.[4]

5. If your current game does not meet the conditions, discard it and draw a new one.[4]

6. Put away the rest of the cards.[4]

For E Cards (Traitor Missions):

1. Select all cards marked E.[5]

2. Shuffle and deal one face down to each player.[5]

3. Secretly look at your card.[5]

4. Check the conditions on the lower part of your card.[5]

5. If your current game does not meet the conditions, discard it and draw a new one.[5]

6. Put away the rest of the cards.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook · p.3 · THERE IS A TRAITOR AMONG YOU ( A CARDS) · Hero Cards · Traitor Card · Accusing a Player

[2] RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook · p.5 · Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players

[3] RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook · p.7 · MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.

[4] RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook · p.9 · PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards

[5] RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook · p.10 · MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions

Settled. Play on.

🔧 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 79 ms · ask 4909 ms · total 4991 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4991 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 2, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "This expansion is designed to increase interaction in Magic Maze and make it a semi-cooperative game. Each player receives a secret role, possibly becoming a traitor, or getting a secret mission, or following their own special rules. Like Magic Maze , this expansion is divided into five difficulty l", "headingPath": "CONCEPT OF THIS EXPANSION", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "Select all of the cards marked D . Shuffle them and deal one face down to each player. Secretly look at your card. Check the conditions on the lower part of your card. If your current game does not meet the conditions, discard it and draw a new one. Put away the rest of the cards; you will not need ", "headingPath": "PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "Select all of the cards marked E . Shuffle them and deal one face down to each player. Secretly look at your card. Check the conditions on the lower part of your card. If your current game does not meet the conditions, discard it and draw a new one. Put away the rest of the cards; you will not need ", "headingPath": "MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "Select all of the cards marked C (including the 3 traitors). Shuffle them and deal one face down to each player. Secretly look at your card. There are 0 - 3 traitors in the game. Check the lower part of the card for any conditions, such as '3-4 players' or specific elements being part of the game - ", "headingPath": "MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "These Role cards impose a rule to which you must adhere during the game, which might (wrongly) make you seem like a traitor. If you momentarily forget to apply the rule assigned to you, wait until the end of the game to apologize, but get right back to following the rule! These Role cards give you a", "headingPath": "Special Rule Cards · Example", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "6 If at least one player disagrees, or fails to answer within the allotted time, your accusation is unsuccessful, and the game continues. If everyone, except the accused of course, gives a thumbs-up, your accusation is validated. The accused player immediately reveals their Role card. If the accused", "headingPath": "Accusing a Player · Accusation Rejected · Accusation Validated · Elimination", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "The traitor is the only player who can move a Hero pawn onto an Sand Timer space, but is not doing so. Just before the sand timer runs out, another player understands what is happening. She points at him and calls out, 'Traitor!' The sand timer runs out, but everyone else agrees, validating the accu", "headingPath": "Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "As with a single accusation, everyone who is not involved must agree with your accusation in order to validate it. If your accusation is validated, and they are all traitors, they all are eliminated from the game; however, if there is even one hero among the accused, the traitors win the game. An ac", "headingPath": "Accusing Multiple Players · Abandoning the Heist · Phantoms", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "THERE IS A TRAITOR AMONG YOU ( A CARDS) · Hero Cards · Traitor Card · Accusing a Player", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions", "sharpsignalDocId": 949}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of)
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 0.85163 of 1476 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 25, 2026 09:48 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 TWO-ARM fuse (full-text + vector), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.03279 — both arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). Measured healthy band on this fuse: 0.016–0.033. 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 Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	CONCEPT OF THIS EXPANSION	p.2	0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards	p.9	0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	300
#3	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions	p.10	0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#4	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.	p.7	0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#5	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Special Rule Cards · Example	p.8	0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#6	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Accusing a Player · Accusation Rejected · Accusation Validated · Elimination	p.4	0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#7	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players	p.5	0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	300
#8	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Accusing Multiple Players · Abandoning the Heist · Phantoms	p.6	0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	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 11 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 — not 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. 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 Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards	p.9	#2	0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	CONCEPT OF THIS EXPANSION	p.2	#1	0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Special Rule Cards · Example	p.8	#5	0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	THERE IS A TRAITOR AMONG YOU ( A CARDS) · Hero Cards · Traitor Card · Accusing a Player	p.3	#9	0.014493 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players	p.5	#7	0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Accusing a Player · Accusation Rejected · Accusation Validated · Elimination	p.4	#6	0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions	p.10	#3	0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.	p.7	#4	0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse)	vector	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	THERE IS A TRAITOR AMONG YOU ( A CARDS) · Hero Cards · Traitor Card · Accusing a Player	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	Example of a situation · 'I've got my eye on you!' · MULTIPLE TRAITORS… COULD BE! ( B CARDS) · Accusing Multiple Players	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS AND SPECIAL RULES ( C CARDS) · Examples must not be validated.	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES ( D CARDS) · Variable Cards	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Magic Maze: Hidden Roles — Rulebook (corpus doc 949)	MISSIONS FOR TRAITORS ( E CARDS) · Divining the Missions	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 79 ms · first delta 1080 ms · total 4991 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 79 ms · ask 4909 ms · gateway work 4991 ms · total 4991 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2446
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 521
tok/sec: 134.3 tok/sec — 521 output tokens in 3.878 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 24h, checked 7s 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 603), 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.