Ruling — It's a Wonderful Kingdom

You asked

How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: It's a Wonderful Kingdombg-327711-en-1e

Basic Setup:

1. Place the board in the middle of the table, and place the Round-Tracker token on round 1.[1][2]

2. Leave a little space on each side of the board for the two Offering areas.[1][2]

3. Shuffle the Development cards and Treasure cards together to form the Development deck, then place it face down on the and the table.[1][2]

4. Take the 8 Calamity cards and place them in a face-up stack beside the Development deck.[1][2]

5. Place the Resource cubes and Soldier tokens on their dedicated spaces.[1][2]

6. Each player takes a starting Duchy (both players must play the same side: both A or both B).[1][2]

7. Each player takes the 2 Trap tokens corresponding to their Duchy.[1][2]

8. Each player must arrange their cards to organize their play area, providing sufficient space above your Duchy card to add constructed Development cards, and room for a Selection area and a Construction area.[1][2]

9. Choose a Module to add, and apply its Setup rules.[1][2]

Module-Specific Setup:

* Menace Module: Remove the 8 Calamity cards from the game and return them to the box; each player chooses one of the available Menace decks and places it nearby.[3]

* Rats Everywhere (SC01): Play with Solo mode and the Menace module, and take the Giant Rats as the Menace; place the 4 Farm cards in your Construction area.[4]

* Advisors Module (SC02): Play with Solo mode and the Advisors module; put the Development cards Infernal Gate, Secret Fellowship, and Royal Dungeon in your Construction area; put the Advisor cards Illuminated Prophet and Power Behind the Throne in your Advisors' area, then shuffle the other 9 advisors into the Development deck; begin the game with 6 Soldier tokens.[4]

* The Northern Lands Quest (SC05): Take the 1-player The Northern Lands Quest board; put the Development cards Great Lighthouse, Navigators (×1), Port (×1), and Cache of Giants in your Construction area; take the Frost Giant Menace cards and add them to the Danger deck in place of the 4 Calamity cards.[5]

* The Quest Module: Place one of the Quest boards (2-player side up) where both players can reach it; each player takes the 4 Completed Step tokens of their color.[6]

* Solo Mode: Follow the solo rules described on page 7; do not use Advisor cards bearing the 2-player logo (put them back in the box); draw 2 Advisor cards, choose one and place it in your Advisor's area, then shuffle the other one with the other Advisor cards; replace the 10 Treasure cards with 10 Advisor cards.[6]

* Duchy of Téressie: Shuffle the Development deck (Development + Treasure cards) and draw 8 cards without looking at them; add 4 Calamity cards to these 8 cards, then shuffle this deck and place it face down on the table to serve as the Danger deck; shuffle the rest of the development cards to form the Development deck and place it face up so the top card is always visible; do not use Trap tokens, but take 2 Spy tokens instead (one Available side up and the other Unavailable side up).[7]

[1] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.2 · CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA

[3] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.5 · Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …

[4] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.7 · SC01: RATS EVERYWHERE · Loss Conditions: · SC:02 THE PROPHECY

[5] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.7 · SC05: THE THIEF GUILD

[6] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.6 · SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP

[7] RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook · p.4 · Setup

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5657 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1290 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1290 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 0.90161 of 2490 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 15, 2026 14:09 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	0.046239 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …	p.5	0.046176 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA	p.2	0.046147 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	0.045335 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP	p.6	0.043697 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	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
#8	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		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

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 23 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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	#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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA	p.2	#4	0.046147 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …	p.5	#3	0.046176 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SC01: RATS EVERYWHERE · Loss Conditions: · SC:02 THE PROPHECY	p.7	#12	0.028043 (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
#5	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SC05: THE THIEF GUILD	p.7	#13	0.027864 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP	p.6	#6	0.043697 (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
#7	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	#2	0.046239 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	#5	0.045335 (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 It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	CONTENTS · YOUR PLAY AREA	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup · Interaction: 4/5 Difficulty: 3/5 · SETUP · A. CHOICE PHASE · B. PLANNING PHASE · C. PRODUCTION PHASE · …	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SC01: RATS EVERYWHERE · Loss Conditions: · SC:02 THE PROPHECY	p.7	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SC05: THE THIEF GUILD	p.7	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	SOLO MODE · CREDITS · SETUP	p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK It's a Wonderful Kingdom — Rulebook (corpus doc 1290)	Setup	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 247 ms · first delta 1790 ms · total 5657 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 247 ms · ask 5406 ms · gateway work 5657 ms · total 5657 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3886
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 758
tok/sec: 201.2 tok/sec — 758 output tokens in 3.768 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, 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 1220), 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.