Ruling — Rococo

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How do I setup the game?

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Base Game Setup

1. Punch out the cardboard pieces from the punch boards.[1]

2. Place the game board in the middle of the play area with the side corresponding to the number of players faceup.[1]

3. Place the Queen's Favor token in the indicated space.[1]

4. Sort the 28 Employee cards into Levels I through VI: shuffle the 6 Level VI cards and place them facedown to create the draw deck; shuffle the 4 Level V cards and place them facedown on top of the draw deck; shuffle the 4 Level IV cards and place them facedown on top; shuffle the 4 Level III cards and place them facedown on top; shuffle the 4 Level II cards and place them facedown on top; finally, shuffle the 6 Level I cards and place them on top to form the New Employees draw deck.[1]

5. Place all Resource tiles in the Resource bag, mix them, and place the bag near the Resource display.[1]

6. Place all Garment tiles in the Garment bag, mix them, and place the bag near the Garment Design display.[1]

7. Each player chooses a color and takes the following items for that color: 1 Player board, 1 plastic Resource tile rack, 5 Start Employee cards (placed facedown in the Employee supply on the left side of the Player board), 20 Trademark Tokens, and 1 Prestige Counter.[1]

8. Place the Prestige Counter on the 0 space of the score track.[1]

9. Place the Livre coins next to the board to form a bank.[1]

10. Set up the general supply of Thread and Lace tokens in a convenient space near the board.[1]

11. Give each player a personal supply of 15 Livre, 1 Lace token, and 1 Thread token.[1]

12. Determine a Start Player (the last player to use a needle and thread) and give them the Start Player token.[1]

Jewelry Box Expansion Setup Adjustments

1. After placing the Game board (Base Game step 1), place the Jeweler board next to the right side of the Game board.[2]

2. Place the 24 Jewelry tiles in the Jewelry bag, mix them well, and place the bag near the Jeweler board.[2]

3. Each player places 1 of their Trademark tokens in the Journeyman Examination Start area.[2]

4. When preparing the New Employee draw deck (Base Game step 4), make the following changes with the Level V and Level II cards: remove the 2 Journeymen from the base game Level II Employee cards and add them to the 9 new Journeymen from Jewelry Box; shuffle these 11 Journeyman cards and place them as a facedown deck next to the Journeyman Examination space of the Jeweler board; draw 2 cards from this stack and shuffle them together with the remaining base game Level II Apprentice and Master; these 4 cards are then placed facedown on top of the New Employee draw deck as the Level II cards.[3]

5. Shuffle the 10 specialized Apprentices and deal 1 Apprentice facedown to each player; return any excess specialized Apprentices to the box without looking at them.[3]

6. Fill the Jewelry spaces on the Jeweler board with faceup Jewelry tiles drawn randomly from the Jewelry bag.[3]

Madame du Barry Solo Mode Setup Adjustments

1. Follow the Setup Base Game instructions and the Jewelry Box expansion setup with the following adjustments:[4]

2. In step 6, Madame du Barry receives the usual player setup materials, except for a Resource tile rack; her Starting Employee cards are placed facedown above her Player board (these serve as her Employee deck for final scoring and are not used actively during the game).[4]

3. In step 9, she is given 1 Thread and 1 Lace, but no Livre.[4]

4. In step 10, she is given the Start Player token.[4]

5. When setting up the Jewelry Box expansion, she places a Trademark token in the Journeyman start area but does not gain a specialized Apprentice.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)

[2] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.13 · Level VI Employee Cards · General Note: · JEWELRY BOX EXPANSION · 1 Jeweler Board · SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.14 · o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS

[4] RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook · p.17 · MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …

Settled. Play 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 232 ms · ask 5715 ms · total 5951 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5951 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)", "sharpsignalDocId": 429}, {"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Level VI Employee Cards · General Note: · JEWELRY BOX EXPANSION · 1 Jeweler Board · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 429}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 429}, {"page": 17, "quote": null, "headingPath": "MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 429}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 429 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 429 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 0.92068 of 2988 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 22, 2026 19:27 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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …	p.17	0.045724 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	p.6	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	4. Hire a New Employee May only be perforMed by a Master · May be perforMed by any eMployee · Important: · VERY IMPORTANT: · 6. Fund a Decoration May be perforMed by any eMployee	p.9	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Claim the Queen's Favor · 2. Acquire Resources · OR · Note: · Example:	p.7	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	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
#7	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Rococo is played over 7 Rounds . · (Ignore In the 1st round) · B) New Employee Cards · Note: · C) New Resource Tiles · D) New Garment Tiles · …	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Level VI Employee Cards · General Note: · JEWELRY BOX EXPANSION · 1 Jeweler Board · SETUP	p.13	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

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 36 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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Level VI Employee Cards · General Note: · JEWELRY BOX EXPANSION · 1 Jeweler Board · SETUP	p.13	#8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	#6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Claim the Queen's Favor · 2. Acquire Resources · OR · Note: · Example:	p.7	#5	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	END OF GAME · 3. Majority in each of the 5 Halls · 4. Majority in Fireworks · 6. Statues	p.11	#16	0.013699 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	1. Rent the Garment to a guest attending the ball · 2. Sell Garment · Notes:	p.8	#14	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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Note: · Beginning with the second Round and for the rest of the game: · Important: · Example (2 nd Round onwards):	p.6	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …	p.17	#2	0.045724 (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 Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	SETUP BASE GAME (setup shown for 4 players)	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	Level VI Employee Cards · General Note: · JEWELRY BOX EXPANSION · 1 Jeweler Board · SETUP	p.13	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	o Level II Employee Cards: · GAME PLAY · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 3: PERFORM ACTIONS	p.14	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Rococo — Rulebook (corpus doc 429)	MADAME DU BARRY SOLO MODE · COMPONENTS · SETUP · PLAYING THE GAME · PHASE 1: PREPARE FOR A NEW ROUND · PHASE 2: SELECT 3 EMPLOYEE CARDS · …	p.17	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 232 ms · first delta 1350 ms · total 5951 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 232 ms · ask 5715 ms · gateway work 5951 ms · total 5951 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4218
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 893
tok/sec: 200.3 tok/sec — 893 output tokens in 4.458 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 6s 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 358), 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.