Ruling — Unfair

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How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Unfairbg-179172-en-1e

1. If you wish to use any optional Game Changer cards, select one or more before starting.[1]

2. Decide which side of the board to use and place it on the table.[1]

3. Choose which theme packs to play (each player can choose one pack to include, or you can mix and draw Theme Randomiser tokens to choose them at random).[1]

4. Set aside the Theme Overview card from each theme pack.[1]

5. Give each player 20 coins, a yellow Gate card (placed face-up), a grey Loan card (placed face-down above the Gate card), and a double-sided Round & Scoring Summary card.[1]

6. Place half of the remaining coins at each end of the board.[1]

7. Separate the remaining cards by the design on their backs (red Park cards, green Event cards, etc.).[1]

8. Shuffle each pile separately.[1]

9. Place the red Park cards face-down on the board in the matching spot to form the Park deck.[1][2]

10. Place the green Event cards face-down on the board in the matching spot to form the Event deck.[1][2]

11. Place the blue Blueprint cards face-down on the board in the matching spot to form the Blueprint deck.[1][2]

12. Set the purple Showcase cards aside for now.[1][2]

13. Count out 4 white-and-red 'Unfair' City cards facedown into a temporary pile and put the remaining "Unfair" City cards back into the box without revealing them.[2]

14. Place the Blueprint Closure card on top of the temporary "Unfair" pile, with the 'Public Notice' side face-up.[2]

15. Count out 4 white-and-blue 'Funfair' City cards facedown on top of that pile (do not shuffle these together) and put the remaining "Funfair" City cards back into the box without revealing them; match this 9-card pile to its place on the board to form the City deck.[2]

16. Deal 5 Park cards to each player as their starting hand.[2]

17. If a player receives no attraction cards, they may reveal their cards and shuffle them back into the Park deck to draw a new hand of 5 Park cards, repeating until they have at least one attraction card.[2]

18. Deal 2 Showcase cards to each player; players may look at their own Showcase cards, but they are kept face-down on the table until used.[2]

19. Reveal cards from the Park deck to fill the 6 spaces labelled "Market" to form the Market.[2]

20. Give the Starting Player marker to the person who most recently rode a roller coaster.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP

Rule found, game 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 296 ms · ask 6030 ms · total 6327 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6327 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 4, "score": 0.048131, "snippet": "If any players are new to the game, please use the First Date Game Changer card and these themes: 2 PLAYERS: Robot, Pirate 3 PLAYERS: Robot, Pirate, Vampire 4 PLAYERS: Robot, Pirate, Vampire, Jungle Unfair plays well with 5 players, but don't play a 5-player game if any players are new to the game. ", "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.047712, "snippet": "A B C Each player starts with: L K · 20 coins. · A Gate card, face-up. · A Loan card, face-down. · A Round & Scoring Summary card. · A hand of 5 Park cards. · 2 Showcase cards, face-down. This is the starting setup for a player, showing five empty attraction spaces to the right of the Main Gate card", "headingPath": "STARTING SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.047643, "snippet": "2 Contents Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What’s In The Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Your First Game? . . . . . . . . . . . ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.046898, "snippet": "5 This is the starting setup for a player, showing five empty attraction spaces to the right of the Main Gate card, with the game board above. 1 2 3 4 5 STARTING SETUP Each player starts with: • 20 coins. • A Gate card, face-up. • A Loan card, face-down. • A Round & Scoring Summary card. • A hand of", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "At game end, the player with the most points wins . There are three main ways to score: 1 . Attraction size - each icon added scores more points . 2 . Blueprints - build your park to match a specific plan. 3 . Coins - buy victory with cold hard cash . You have 8 rounds to build the best theme park, ", "headingPath": "HOW TO WIN · HOW TO PLAY · 1. Events step · EVENT EVENT EVENT Draw an Event card · Play the City event", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "1 x Game board, double-sided 2 x Player Reference sheets 1 x Blueprint Closure card 5 x Game Changer cards 1 x old-style Current Step marker - \"You Are Here\" symbol 1 x upgraded Current Step marker - roller coaster mini 14 x Mesmerism tokens (for use with Vampire theme) 6 x Theme Randomiser tokens +", "headingPath": "WHAT'S IN THE BOX · OBJECTIVE · YOUR FIRST GAME?", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030214, "snippet": "If you need extra money, for whatever reason, you can use your Loan card to get it . The Loan card starts out facedown to indicate you haven't taken any loans . If you take a loan, flip the card face-up. Turn it anti-clockwise with each new loan so that the top position shows how many loans you've t", "headingPath": "Loan card · Game Changer cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Use a Build action to place a Park card into your park, with these limitations: Your park can only have 1 super attraction . Your park can have 5 attractions in total, including a super attraction . You cannot repeat upgrades with the same name on the same attraction . This includes upgrades that ar", "headingPath": "Park step action: Build", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 836}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 836 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 836 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 0.89297 of 1906 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 20:33 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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	SETUP	p.4	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))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	STARTING SETUP	p.5	0.047712 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)		p.2	0.047643 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)		p.5	0.046898 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	HOW TO WIN · HOW TO PLAY · 1. Events step · EVENT EVENT EVENT Draw an Event card · Play the City event	p.11	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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	WHAT'S IN THE BOX · OBJECTIVE · YOUR FIRST GAME?	p.3	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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	Loan card · Game Changer cards	p.10	0.030214 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	Park step action: Build	p.12	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 80 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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	SETUP	p.4	#1	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
#2	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)		p.5	#4	0.046898 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)		p.2	#3	0.047643 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	HOW TO WIN · HOW TO PLAY · 1. Events step · EVENT EVENT EVENT Draw an Event card · Play the City event	p.11	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	Loan card · Game Changer cards	p.10	#7	0.030214 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	Showcase cards	p.9	#10	0.029274 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	SETUP	p.4	#15	0.014286 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	STARTING SETUP	p.5	#2	0.047712 (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 Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Unfair — Rulebook (corpus doc 836)	SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 296 ms · first delta 3246 ms · total 6327 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 296 ms · ask 6030 ms · gateway work 6327 ms · total 6327 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3357
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 610
tok/sec: 201.5 tok/sec — 610 output tokens in 3.028 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 50s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 2s 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 771), 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.