Ruling — Firenze

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how do i setup the game for 3 players?

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To setup the game for 3 players, follow these steps:

1. Place the Game Board in the middle of the players.[1]

2. Place the Level Tiles on the four small spaces to the left of the white tower according to their respective levels.[1]

3. Place the End of Game Tile on the oval space above the 4.[2]

4. Turn the Balcony Tiles to the sides with Roman numerals and shuffle them.[2]

5. Turn over 4 Balcony Tiles (one I, one II, one III, and one IV) and place them on the Game Board to cover the appropriate Level of the tower of the appropriate color.[2]

6. Place the 5 neutral Seals to cover 5 Levels of your choice of towers (as long as they do not already have a Balcony Tile), ensuring two or three neutral Seals are set on the third and fourth Levels.[2]

7. Each player chooses 7 Seals of their chosen color and places their Small Seal in front of them to advertise their color; place any superfluous Seals back in the box.[3]

8. Determine the Starting Player: whoever was most recently up a tower is the Starting Player and receives 2 white Bricks.[2]

9. Proceeding clockwise, each other player receives one more brick than the player before (3, 4, or 5 white Bricks) and places them in their Storehouse in front of them.[2]

10. Place all other Bricks in the Pouch and mix them up.[2]

11. Each player takes one Construction Site, one Overview Card, and one of both types of personages (If...then/If...not and Do not/If...not), placing them in front of them.[2]

12. Turn over the top card of the Deck and place it on the leftmost space of the Card Row, then place subsequent cards in the second and third spaces until all six spaces of the Card Row are occupied.[1]

13. Place 4 Bricks drawn randomly from the Pouch on each of the six cards in the Row.[1]

14. Each player places their Prestige Marker of their color on the 0 (zero) space of the Prestige Tracker.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook · p.2 · Game Contents · Set Up

[2] RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook · p.3 · Set Up

[3] RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook · p.3 · Set Up

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🔧 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 509 ms · ask 3601 ms · total 4112 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4112 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game Contents · Set Up", "sharpsignalDocId": 1149}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Set Up", "sharpsignalDocId": 1149}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Set Up", "sharpsignalDocId": 1149}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1149 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1149 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 0.90987 of 1520 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 09:39 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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.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))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Play	p.4	0.032258 (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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Contents · Set Up	p.2	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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up · 1) Choose a card · Construction Commissions · Balconies	p.4	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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	The End of the Game · Final Scoring · Tips for Setting Up the Game · Roll for it	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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Level Bonus · Event Cards · Personnel Cards	p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Concept	p.1	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 14 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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.3	#1	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
#2	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.3	#2	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 Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Contents · Set Up	p.2	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)		p.5	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up · 1) Choose a card · Construction Commissions · Balconies	p.4	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Level Bonus · Event Cards · Personnel Cards	p.7	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	The End of the Game · Final Scoring · Tips for Setting Up the Game · Roll for it	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
#8	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Play	p.4	#3	0.032258 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Game Contents · Set Up	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Firenze — Rulebook (corpus doc 1149)	Set Up	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 509 ms · first delta 1683 ms · total 4112 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 509 ms · ask 3601 ms · gateway work 4112 ms · total 4112 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3811
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 475
tok/sec: 200.2 tok/sec — 475 output tokens in 2.373 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, 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 1079), 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.