Ruling — Wiz-War (Eighth Edition)

You asked

How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Wiz-War (Eighth Edition)bg-104710-en-1e

1. Choose Wizards and Colors: Each player chooses one plastic wizard and randomly chooses one player color, placing the figure in the base of that color.[1]

2. Receive components: Each player receives the sector board, life tracker, treasure markers, and hat tokens in his player color.[1]

3. Build Game Board: All players collectively choose one side of the sector boards to play with (side A/new or side B/classic).[1]

4. One player takes all sector boards, ensuring the chosen side is facedown, shuffles them under the table while changing their orientation, and randomly builds the game board according to the number of players.[1]

5. Flip the sector boards faceup and place the portals next to the game board.[1]

6. Place Wizards and Treasures: Each player places his wizard figure in his home base square.[1]

7. Each player places one of his treasure markers on each of the two treasure start squares in his sector.[1]

8. Prepare Magic Deck: One player sets aside all Magic cards from the White Cantrip school.[1]

9. Return all cards from the Black Cantrip school to the box.[1]

10. Players (as a group, by taking turns, or at random) select three other schools of magic and set those cards aside.[1]

11. Shuffle all set aside cards into one deck and return all remaining cards to the game box.[1]

12. Deal Starting Hand: Deal five cards from the Magic deck facedown to each player.[1]

13. Prepare Tokens and Die: Separate the crack, energy, and stun tokens into piles and place them near the game board, and also place the random direction overlay, the object markers, and the die near the game board.[1]

14. Set Life Dials and Assign First Player: Each player sets his life tracker to '15' and one player is chosen to be the first player at random or by selecting the player with the longest hair, beard, or otherwise.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · Setup

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 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 327 ms · ask 6755 ms · total 7084 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7084 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1091 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1091 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 0.91887 of 1516 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 02:25 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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Setup	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)		p.5	0.048131 (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))	295
#3	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Setup Diagram (Four-pla yer Game) · Variable Pla yer Setup	p.5	0.047875 (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))	176
#4	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Home Base Squares · Random Directions · Transformed Wizards · Determining a Random Direction · Optional Rules · Uncluttered Minds *	p.16	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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Creating Objects and Playing Items	p.14	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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Picking Up and Dropping Trea sures	p.12	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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Life Trackers · Random Direction Overla y · Treasure Markers	p.2	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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Lea ving the Board and Moving Through Portals	p.7	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 54 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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Setup	p.4	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Setup Diagram (Four-pla yer Game) · Variable Pla yer Setup	p.5	#3	0.047875 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)		p.18	#36	0.010417 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)		p.18	#35	0.010526 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Custom Spellbook · Deadly Trea sures * · Extended Pla y · Giant Book of Spell s * · Heavy Items * · Permanent Creations * · …	p.17	#11	0.014085 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	A Pla yer ' s T ur n · 1. T i m e P a sse s P h a se · 2. Move and Ca st Pha se	p.6	#14	0.013514 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Creating Objects and Playing Items	p.14	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)		p.5	#2	0.048131 (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 Wiz-War (Eighth Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 1091)	Setup	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 327 ms · first delta 4917 ms · total 7084 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 327 ms · ask 6755 ms · gateway work 7084 ms · total 7084 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2325
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 431
tok/sec: 203.0 tok/sec — 431 output tokens in 2.123 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 51s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 0s 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 1021), 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.