You asked
How do I setup the game?
Answered counted as answered1. Place the stack of clay/stone room tiles next to the game board [1]. 2. Divide the stack of wood room tiles in two, placing one half with the wood rooms facing up and the other with the field tiles facing up [1]. 3. Place the game board in the middle of the play area [1]. 4. Depending on the number of players, take the appropriate game board extension and attach it to the game board with the proper side facing up [1]. 5. Place the red ('major') improvements on the designated spaces of the supply board [1]. 6. Randomly determine who gets the starting player token [1]. 7. The starting player gets 2 food; each other player gets 3 food [1]. 8. Shuffle the orange improvements and deal each player a hand of seven cards [1]. 9. Put the cards that you are not supposed to be using according to your number of players back into the game box [1]. 10. Shuffle the remaining cards and deal each player a hand of seven cards [1]. 11. Shuffle the 14 action space cards and sort them by the numbers on their back sides, resulting in 6 stacks that you must place on top of each other in descending order from bottom to top (so stage 1 cards are on top) [1]. 12. Place all animals (sheep, wild boar, cattle), building resources (wood, clay, reed, stone), crops (grain, vegetables), and food markers ready at hand as the general supply [1]. 13. Place goods tiles with begging markers on their backs somewhere on the side of the table in case they are needed [1].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 240 ms · ask 6891 ms · total 7141 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 7141 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 12, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "The starting player does not change automatically from round to round. To become the starting player, you must use the 'Meeting Place' action space. (If no player uses it, the starting player token remains with its current holder.) The game ends at the end of the 14th round, after the final harvest.", "headingPath": "Starting Player · Game End and Winner · Details on Scoring · Number of Components", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "As the solo player, you start the game with 0 food. You play one turn after another, according to the 2-player game rules with the following exceptions: your adult people require 3 food in the feeding phases (newborns still only require 1 food). Only 2 wood instead of 3 are placed on the 'Forest' ac", "headingPath": "Solo Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "Place the stack of clay/stone room tiles next to the game board. Divide the stack of wood room tiles in two, placing one half with the wood rooms facing up and the other with the field tiles facing up. Place the game board in the middle of the play area. Depending on the number of players, take the ", "headingPath": "Room and Field Tiles · Game Board with Action Spaces · Major Improvements · Minor Improvements · Occupations · Action Space Cards · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "ge 2 Here, you can only build an improvement after you renovate. Each of the 14 rounds goes through four phases , which are played one after another. The work phase is when you place your people on action spaces to take actions. Each round starts with some preparations. Most action spaces are pre-pr", "headingPath": "Improvements and Occupations · Course of Play · 1. Preparation Phase · 2. Work Phase · Details on the Work Phase House Redevelopment", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Later in the game, vegetables become available as a second crop. Vegetable Seeds If you have crops in your supply and unplanted fields on your farm, you can take the 'Sow' action on the appropriate action space, which comes into play between rounds 1 and 4. When you sow, place 1 grain or 1 vegetable", "headingPath": "Cultivation · Details on Cultivation · Harvest · Feeding Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "Use the 'Farm Expansion' action space and take the 'Build Rooms' action , paying the required building resources: 5 wood and 2 reed . Take a wood room tile and place it adjacent to your existing ones. In a single action, you can build as many rooms as you can afford, one after another. At the start ", "headingPath": "Adding Rooms · Details on Building a Room · Renovation", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "Each room has space for one person. The reason why there are five people in this house is that, towards the end of the game, lack of space does not matter anymore. Initially composed of wood rooms, this house can now shine with stone rooms-after being renovated twice: luxury like this is worth a lot", "headingPath": "Suggestion Tiles · General Overview · What Happens on Your Farmyard Board", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "18 white sheep 15 black wild boar 13 brown cattle 30 brown 'wood' building resource tokens 24 auburn 'clay' building resource tokens 14 white 'reed' building resource tokens 16 black 'stone' building resource tokens 4 large farmyard boards (one for each player) 1 large game board 1 supply board for ", "headingPath": "Wooden components · Components · Game boards · Tiles · 120 cards · As well as · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Room and Field Tiles · Game Board with Action Spaces · Major Improvements · Minor Improvements · Occupations · Action Space Cards · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 131}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
- answered-before recall
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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)
- debug row retained until
- Oct 31, 2026 13:16
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Starting Player · Game End and Winner · Details on Scoring · Number of Components | p.12 | 0.016393 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Solo Game | p.12 | 0.016129 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Room and Field Tiles · Game Board with Action Spaces · Major Improvements · Minor Improvements · Occupations · Action Space Cards · … | p.3 | 0.015873 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Improvements and Occupations · Course of Play · 1. Preparation Phase · 2. Work Phase · Details on the Work Phase House Redevelopment | p.6 | 0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Cultivation · Details on Cultivation · Harvest · Feeding Phase | p.9 | 0.015385 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Adding Rooms · Details on Building a Room · Renovation | p.7 | 0.015152 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Suggestion Tiles · General Overview · What Happens on Your Farmyard Board | p.4 | 0.014925 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Wooden components · Components · Game boards · Tiles · 120 cards · As well as · … | p.2 | 0.014706 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 131) | Room and Field Tiles · Game Board with Action Spaces · Major Improvements · Minor Improvements · Occupations · Action Space Cards · … | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 240 ms · first delta 4501 ms · total 7141 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 240 ms · ask 6891 ms · gateway work 7141 ms · total 7141 ms
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s ago)
- 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)
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setup
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 53), 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.