Ruling — Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak

You asked

How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreakbg-137988-en-1e

1. Choose a Mission.[1]

2. Place the tiles.[1]

3. Place the doors, the cars, and Objectives.[1]

4. Put aside the pimpmobile cards (Gunblades) and all Nailbat, Nightstick, Molotov, and Wounded cards, and also keep a single Claw Hammer, Fire Axe, and Pistol card.[1]

5. Shuffle the Zombie cards into one deck and the Equipment cards into another, then place both decks face down close to the board.[1]

6. Each player chooses his Survivors based on the number of players: 1 player: 4 to 6 Survivors; 2 players: 3 Survivors per player; 3 players: 2 Survivors per player; 4 to 6 players: 1 Survivor per player.[1]

7. Place the miniatures representing the chosen Survivors on the starting Zone as indicated by the Mission.[1]

8. Place your Survivor's Identity Card in front of you, showing the 'standard' version of your Survivor.[1]

9. Place an experience tracker on the first square in the blue area of the Danger Bar, and place a Skill counter on the first corresponding Skill.[1]

10. Randomly deal the starting equipment: a Claw Hammer, Fire Axe, Pistol, and enough Nightsticks so that each Survivor gets one card (if a Survivor's starting Skill lists any starting weapons, he receives those cards now).[1]

11. Decide who will be the first player and give him or her the 'first player' token.[1]

12. At the beginning of the game, place an Abomination in the Zone marked on the map.[2]

13. At the beginning of the game, place a Berserker Abomination in the Zone marked on the map.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook · p.6 · PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.

[2] RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook · p.38 · SPECIAL RULES

[3] RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook · p.30 · SPECIAL RULES

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 197 ms · ask 13864 ms · total 14063 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 14063 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 45, "score": 0.047183, "snippet": "The violet Switch. Activating the violet Switch opens the violet cell doors. The Survivor activating the violet Switch for the first time also takes the violet Objective and gains 5 experience points. The violet cell doors close when the violet Switch is set back to its original setting. The white S", "headingPath": "OBJECTIVES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 30, "score": 0.047131, "snippet": "Exploring methodically. Each Objective gives 5 experience points to the Survivor who takes it. Observation stuff. Set one Scope card and one Rifle card in the observation tower shown on the map. A Survivor in this observation tower can use one Action to take both cards. The rotating security gate. T", "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 38, "score": 0.045002, "snippet": "King of the yard. One of the infected was a really big guy. He didn't turn into a simple Walker but a huge Abomination. At the beginning of the game, place an Abomination in the Zone marked on the map. The violet Switch . Activating the violet Switch opens all violet cell doors and the violet door. ", "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 39, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The yellow Switch for the rotating security gate. When the yellow Switch is activated, the rotating security gate rotates a quarter turn to the left or to the right (choose the direction of rotation each time the Switch is used). The Survivor activating the yellow Switch for the first time also take", "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "You can only Search Zones inside a building (except for indoor alleys) and only if there are no Zombies in the Zone. The player draws a card from the Equipment deck. He may then place it in the Survivor's inventory or immediately discard it. A Survivor can only perform a single Search Action per tur", "headingPath": "SEARCH · OPEN A DOOR · REORGANIZE YOUR INVENTORY AND TRADE WITH ANOTHER SURVIVOR", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 41, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "The yellow Switch for the rotating security gate. When the yellow Switch is activated, the rotating security gate rotates a quarter turn to the left or to the right (choose the direction of rotation each time the Switch is used). The Survivor activating the yellow Switch for the first time also take", "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "1  Choose a Mission. 2  Place the tiles. 3  Place the doors, the cars, and Objectives. 4  \u0007 Put aside the pimpmobile cards (Gunblades) and all Nailbat, Nightstick, Molotov, and Wounded cards. Also keep a single Claw Hammer, Fire Axe, and Pistol card. 5  \u0007 Shuffle the Zombie cards into one deck ", "headingPath": "PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 40, "score": 0.029551, "snippet": "HARD / 6+ SURVIVORS / 180 MINUTES Now we know what happened to the previous inhabitants of our new haven. They starved to death. They trapped zombies between them and the prison's food stores. Fortunately, we just finished clearing the area, but there are still lots of wandering zombies coming from ", "headingPath": "M08 FOOOOOD! · OBJECTIVES · SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 38, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}, {"page": 30, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SPECIAL RULES", "sharpsignalDocId": 1003}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1003 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1003 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 0.89568 of 1227 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 12, 2026 01:27 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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	OBJECTIVES	p.45	0.047183 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.30	0.047131 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.38	0.045002 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.39	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
#5	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SEARCH · OPEN A DOOR · REORGANIZE YOUR INVENTORY AND TRADE WITH ANOTHER SURVIVOR	p.14	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
#6	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.41	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
#7	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.	p.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))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	M08 FOOOOOD! · OBJECTIVES · SPECIAL RULES	p.40	0.029551 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)		p.2	#10	0.028787 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.38	#3	0.045002 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	OBJECTIVES · SPECIAL RULES	p.34	#13	0.028191 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES · OBJECTIVES	p.32	#21	0.012987 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	RUNNERS	p.18	#12	0.028373 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)		p.17	#16	0.014493 (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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.30	#2	0.047131 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.	p.6	#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))	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 Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	PRISON OUTBREAK : A STANDALONE GAME AND AN EXPANSION.	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.38	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Zombicide Season 2: Prison Outbreak — Rulebook (corpus doc 1003)	SPECIAL RULES	p.30	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 197 ms · first delta 7170 ms · total 14063 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 197 ms · ask 13864 ms · gateway work 14063 ms · total 14063 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3717
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 385
tok/sec: 57.4 tok/sec — 385 output tokens in 6.709 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 8s 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 933), 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.