Ruling — Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clockbg-429405-en-1e

General Setup

1. Take the main board and unfold it in the centre of the table.[1]

2. Place the Orloj clock face and the astronomical dial on the rotation axis in the centre to form the clock, as shown in the image.[1]

3. Take the moon disc and place it in the first position to the and left of the hand inside the astronomical dial.[1]

4. Place the walk of the apostles with its gears above the main board.[1]

5. Rotate the gears until apostles 1 and 2 (James and Peter) are visible at the bottom.[1]

6. Randomly take one of the Orloj crowning pieces and assemble it with the walk of the apostles.[1]

7. Place the round marker on the leftmost space of the round track according to the number of players in the game.[1]

8. Place the golden rooster on the general rooster track on the number indicated by the marker on the round track.[1]

9. For the first game: Take the crowning piece marked with the symbol.[1]

10. Shuffle the 6 mastery stained-glass windows and randomly place 3 of them at the top of the mastery tracks; return the rest to the box.[1]

11. Take the 6 royal scrolls (blue seal), shuffle them and place 3 of them face up at the top of the mastery tracks; return the rest to the box.[1]

12. Take the scrolls (red seal) according to the number of players.[1]

13. Remove specific scrolls from the game based on player count: in a three-player game, remove those marked with a; in a two-player or solo mode game, also remove those marked with a.[1]

14. Return unused scrolls to the box.[1]

15. Shuffle the scrolls to form a face-down reserve next to the main board, then reveal three or four of them, depending on whether it is a game with 1-2 players or a game with more than 2 players, respectively.[2][1]

16. Take the common stained-glass-window objectives and separate them by the colour of their backs.[2]

17. Shuffle each colour separately and place one of each colour in the corresponding positions according to their backs; return the rest to the box.[2]

18. Take the common objective bonuses and separate them by the colour of their backs.[2]

19. Shuffle each colour separately and place one of each colour in the corresponding positions according to their backs; return the rest to the box.[2]

20. Shuffle the 21 workshop cards and place 3 of them in the designated spaces on the main board, then place the rest of the deck aside.[2]

21. To set up the calendar: take the month dials, place them in the bag and draw, at random, the number of dials indicated in the table on the left based on the number of players.[2]

22. In the construction area, place a blocked month dial in each space indicated by the dials drawn from the bag.[2]

23. Draw 1 more dial from the bag and place all extracted dials, each in its corresponding space in the calendar with their illustrated side up.[2]

24. Place all remaining dials still in the bag in the construction area in their corresponding spaces, but with the nonillustrated side up.[2]

25. Prepare the zodiac dials in the same way as the month dials.[2]

26. Place the large final construction dial in the centre of the calendar with the side shown in the and image facing up.[2]

27. Place a hammer disc in the indicated position in each of the construction zones (months and zodiac).[2]

28. Take the 12 calendar sections, shuffle them and place them face up in a random order to form a circle around the calendar.[2]

29. For the first game: Store the 12 sections in the box and use the setup printed on the board.[2]

30. Place the painter in the position indicated in the image.[2]

31. Take the assistants and place them next to the board in 6 separate piles, where each pile contains assistants of the same type and has 1 assistant less than the number of players in the game.[2]

32. In solo mode, as well as in a two-player game, there will be only 1 assistant of each type.[2]

33. Return any remaining assistants to the box.[2][3]

34. Take the resources (gold, paint, wood, iron and coins) and place them next to the main board to form a general supply.[3]

Individual Player Setup

1. Place your personal board in the

[1] RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.3 · 4.1. GENERAL SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.3 · 4.1. GENERAL SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook · p.3 · 4.1. GENERAL SETUP

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6297 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1052 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1052 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 0.90657 of 3350 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 24, 2026 21:49 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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#2	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.2. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER SETUP · 4.3. HAMMERS AND INITIAL RESOURCES	p.4	0.047938 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	13.1. SOLO MODE GENERAL SETUP	p.9	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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	0.046452 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	0.045055 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	10.3. USING A SCROLL · 10.4. PLACING AN ASSISTANT · 10.5. CLAIMING AN OBJECTIVE · 10.6. EXCHANGING RESOURCES FOR GOLD	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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	7.1. ACTIVATING THE CLOCK MECHANISM · 7.2. PASSING · 8. ACTIONS	p.5	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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	14. HAMMERS · 15. SCROLLS · 16. REWARDS FOR PLACING AN ASSIST ANT	p.12	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 37 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.

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#1	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	#4	0.046452 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	#5	0.045055 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.2. INDIVIDUAL PLAYER SETUP · 4.3. HAMMERS AND INITIAL RESOURCES	p.4	#2	0.047938 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	13.2. JOSEF MÁNES' COMPONENT SETUP	p.9	#19	0.013514 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	13.2. JOSEF MÁNES' COMPONENT SETUP · 13.3. SOLO MODE GAME FLOW · 13.4. PARTICULARITIES OF JOSEF MÁNES' TURN	p.10	#12	0.025604 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	3.1. THE WALK OF THE APOSTLES	p.3	#9	0.02895 (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 Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	13.1. SOLO MODE GENERAL SETUP	p.9	#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
#8	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	#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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock — Rulebook (corpus doc 1052)	4.1. GENERAL SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 151 ms · first delta 1093 ms · total 6297 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 151 ms · ask 6143 ms · gateway work 6297 ms · total 6297 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3338
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 201.4 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 5.085 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 5h, 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 982), 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.