You asked
How do I set up the game?
Answered counted as answered1. Each player draws ten white cards [1]. 2. The player who most recently pooped begins as the Card Czar and draws a black card (if Hugh Jackman is playing, he goes first regardless of when he last pooped) [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 212 ms · ask 1945 ms · total 2163 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 2163 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Wait for Godot: At the start of the game, instead of drawing a hand, players stare at the pile of white cards. After an indeterminate amount of time, players move their gaze to the pile of black cards. The game doesn't begin. How can it begin? It has already ended. In the gloom, players shift their ", "headingPath": "House Rules (cont.)", "sharpsignalDocId": 118}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "To start the game, each player draws ten white cards. The player who most recently pooped begins as the Card Czar and draws a black card. If Hugh Jackman is playing, he goes first, regardless of how recently he pooped. The Card Czar reads the question or fill-in-the-blank phrase on the black card ou", "headingPath": "Basic Rules · Gambling · House Rules", "sharpsignalDocId": 118}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "Wheaton's Law: Each round, the Card Czar draws two black cards, chooses the one they'd prefer to play, and puts the other at the bottom of the black card pile. Rebooting the Universe: At any time, players may trade in a point to return as many white cards as they'd like to the deck and draw back to ", "headingPath": "House Rules (cont.)", "sharpsignalDocId": 118}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Basic Rules · Gambling · House Rules", "sharpsignalDocId": 118}]
- 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 13:53
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 Cards Against Humanity — Rulebook (corpus doc 118) | House Rules (cont.) | p.1 | 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 Cards Against Humanity — Rulebook (corpus doc 118) | Basic Rules · Gambling · House Rules | p.1 | 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 Cards Against Humanity — Rulebook (corpus doc 118) | House Rules (cont.) | p.1 | 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 |
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 Cards Against Humanity — Rulebook (corpus doc 118) | Basic Rules · Gambling · House Rules | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 212 ms · first delta 1719 ms · total 2163 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 212 ms · ask 1945 ms · gateway work 2163 ms · total 2163 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 1403
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 53
- tok/sec
- 136.6 tok/sec — 53 output tokens in 0.388 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 36s 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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set up
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 40), 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.