Ruling — The Gallerist

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How do I setup the game?

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To setup the game, follow these steps:

1. Place the Game board in the middle of the table.[1]

2. Place the Player boards around the Game board nearest to the Gallery of the appropriate color.[1]

3. Place Visitors in the cloth bag: use all Visitors for a 4-Player game; for 3-Player, remove 2 of each type and place them in the box; for 2-Player and Solitaire, remove 4 of each type.[1]

4. Place each Player's Influence marker (disc) on the '10' space of the Influence Track.[1]

5. In the box office, place a number of tickets of each color depending on the number of Players: 20 tickets for 4-Player, 15 for 3-Player, and 10 for 2-Player and Solitaire; place any remaining tickets back in the game box.[1]

6. Shuffle the contract cards, place them face down on the leftmost space, then draw the top 4 cards and place them face up on the four contract display spaces.[1]

7. Shuffle all 16 Artist tiles and place them one at a time onto the spaces on the board which match the color and Art form of the Artist (each Art form has 1 blue Artist and 1 red Artist); if you draw an Artist whose space is already occupied, return it to the game box; repeat until all spaces are filled and return any remaining Artists to the box.[1]

8. Place the first drawn blue Artist tile face up and mark its initial Fame with a white cube (the initial Fame value is printed on both sides of the tile); all other Artists begin the game face-down.[1]

9. Shuffle the Artist bonus tiles and place one at random on each Artist, returning any remaining tiles to the box.[1]

10. Place one white Visitor (Collector) from the bag on each red Artist tile.[1]

11. Place both of the Artist's Signature tokens next to all the corresponding Artist tiles.[1]

12. For each Art form, shuffle the respective Works of Art and place each stack face up on the space next to the appropriate studio.[1]

13. Take the top tile from each of the stacks and set them aside for now.[1]

14. Place a number of random Visitors from the bag on each topmost Work of Art equal to the number of tickets depicted on the tile.[1]

15. Stack each of the Promotion tokens on the corresponding numbered spaces.[1]

16. For the International Market: randomly choose 12 Reputation tiles and place one face up on each space of the upper 4 rows (for 2-Player and Solitaire, choose only 8 tiles and cover only the upper 4 rows of the 1st and 3rd columns).[2]

17. Shuffle the 4 Works of Art previously set aside and place one at random on each of the easels beside the board (use three easels for 4-Player, two for 3-Player, and one for 2-Player and Solitaire); return any remaining easels and Works of Art to the box.[2]

18. Place 4 random Visitors from the bag in the Plaza and 1 random Visitor in each Player's Lobby.[2]

19. Randomly choose 4 of the remaining Reputation tiles and place one at random face up next to each Location on the game board.[2]

20. Choose a start Player at random and give them the Starting Player marker.[2]

21. In reverse Player order, each Player chooses one of the Locations, places his Gallerist there, and takes the Reputation tile from that Location; place remaining tiles back in the box.[2]

22. Place everything else near the game board.[2]

23. Place 8 Assistants on the spaces of the unemployment queue and the remaining 2 Assistants at desks in the office.[2]

24. Place the Reputation tile taken earlier on the 3rd Art space of the Player board.[2]

25. Take 10 money from the bank.[2]

26. Shuffle the Art Dealer cards and deal one at random to each Player, and do the same with the Curator cards (these are kept secret).[2]

[1] RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:

[2] RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook · p.3 · International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 210 ms · ask 12129 ms · total 12342 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 12342 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 291 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 291 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 0.90687 of 2942 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 31, 2026 02:22 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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	0.048172 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.2	0.04741 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	0.047123 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	0.045695 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.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))	300
#6	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Executive Action:	p.17	0.030622 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Artists Colony · following these steps: · To buy a Work of Art, a Player follows these steps: · Important reminder: · Commission space: · Reminder about commissions:	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Round One	p.17	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

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 39 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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	#1	0.048172 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Score Art Dealer cards: · Example: · Setup · Gameplay · Score Influence: · International Market	p.16	#11	0.028739 (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 re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.2	#2	0.04741 (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
#4	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Gameplay · End of Game · Location Actions · Executive Actions	p.5	#3	0.047123 (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
#5	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Overview of the Game · A brief explanation of the four Locations: · Visitors, Galleries, Plaza and Lobbies	p.4	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	Executive Action:	p.17	#6	0.030622 (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 re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)		p.1	#9	0.029514 (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 re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	#4	0.045695 (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 The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	SETUP · Set up the game board: · Sales office: · Artist Colony: · Media:	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Gallerist — Rulebook (corpus doc 291)	International Market: · Each Player chooses a color and sets up his Gallery as follows:	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 210 ms · first delta 5124 ms · total 12342 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 210 ms · ask 12129 ms · gateway work 12342 ms · total 12342 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3873
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 924
tok/sec: 130.6 tok/sec — 924 output tokens in 7.074 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 1s 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 220), 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.