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How do I set up the game?
Answered counted as answeredIf the qualifying round has a cut-for-deal format, the pack is cut to determine which player deals first in the game; the low card wins [1]. If the qualifying round has an alternate-deal format, there is no cut to determine the first dealer [1]. In an alternate-deal situation, the tournament director must announce the procedure for determining the first dealer and subsequent first deals [1]. For a game: 1. Shuffle the pack, and the player who shuffled last must allow the opponent to cut first [2]. 2. When cutting for the first deal of a game, the first player shall remove no fewer than four cards and not more than half the pack [2]. 3. The second player shall remove no fewer than four cards and shall leave at least four cards [2]. 4. The dealer shall place the pack on the table (board) for the pone to cut [2]. 5. The dealer shuffles and, after a mandatory cut by the pone (nondealer), distributes one card alternately to each player, beginning with the pone, until each has six cards [1]. 6. Each player discards two cards to form the crib, which belongs to the dealer [1]. 7. The pone cuts the remainder of the pack to select a starter card [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 211 ms · ask 7993 ms · total 8217 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 8217 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 55, "score": 0.016393, "snippet": "Determine the number of qualifiers (rule 13.2.b). Collect and count scorecards from each table to make sure that all were turned in. Do not write scores in the boxes at the top of scorecards until cross-checking is completed. Initially check the game-points and games-won columns of all scorecards. D", "headingPath": "Method", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.016129, "snippet": "If the qualifying round has a cut-for-deal format, the pack is cut to determine which player deals first in the game; the low card wins. If the qualifying round has alternate-deal format, there is no cut to determine the first dealer. In an alternate-deal situation, the tournament director must anno", "headingPath": "1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 31, "score": 0.015873, "snippet": "If the dealer plays a card before pegging the two points, the dealer forfeits them. After the starter card has been turned, the deck must be placed on the dealer's side of the board. The play of the cards starts immediately after the turn of the starter card. The pone shall play the first card face ", "headingPath": "6.3. Scoring When the Starter Card Is a Jack (His Heels) · 6.4. Placement of Deck after Cut · 7.1. The Order of Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.015625, "snippet": "shuffle the pack, and the player who shuffled last must allow the opponent to cut first. When cutting for the first deal of a game, the first player shall remove no fewer than four cards and not more than half the pack. The second player shall remove no fewer than four cards and shall leave at least", "headingPath": "3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 28, "score": 0.015385, "snippet": "Prior to the turn of the starter card, if only one player discards to the wrong side of the board, that player is permitted to retrieve the card(s) and reevaluate the selection. If all four cards are discovered to be on the pone's side, they shall be moved to the dealer's side, without exposure, unl", "headingPath": "5.1. Placement · 5.2. Exposure", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.015152, "snippet": "In the first deal of the game, once the deck has been cut and dealing begins, it is assumed the cut for deal was made and play continues. After the cards are shuffled and cut, the dealer distributes one card at a time, face down from the top of the pack alternately to each player, starting with the ", "headingPath": "4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 54, "score": 0.014925, "snippet": "Recommendations for amendments to these rules shall be submitted in writing to the Rules Committee, which will discuss, prepare, and present all relevant proposals to the board of directors for final approval. Whenever possible, (a) establish individual tables of less than 30 players and (b) avoid s", "headingPath": "14.2. Amendments · General Considerations", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 36, "score": 0.014706, "snippet": "Beginning with the outside track, a player shall record his or her first score by placing a peg in the hole corresponding to that score. Subsequent scores are recorded by advancing the rear peg over the front peg by 'leapfrogging' the number of holes consistent with the score to be recorded. If a ze", "headingPath": "8.1. Recording Score on Board · 8.2. Zero Hand or Crib · 8.3. Pegging Incorrectly to the Player's Disadvantage · 8.4. Pegging Incorrectly to the Player's Advantage", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}, {"page": 18, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal", "sharpsignalDocId": 151}]
- 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 14:22
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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | Method | p.55 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 6.3. Scoring When the Starter Card Is a Jack (His Heels) · 6.4. Placement of Deck after Cut · 7.1. The Order of Play | p.31 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal | p.18 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 5.1. Placement · 5.2. Exposure | p.28 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 4.1. Order of Dealing · 4.2. Dealing the Cards | p.20 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 14.2. Amendments · General Considerations | p.54 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 8.1. Recording Score on Board · 8.2. Zero Hand or Crib · 8.3. Pegging Incorrectly to the Player's Disadvantage · 8.4. Pegging Incorrectly to the Player's Advantage | p.36 | 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 Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 1.5. Outline of Playing Sequence | p.12 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Cribbage — Rulebook (corpus doc 151) | 3.1. Procedure for Cutting the Pack · 3.2. Winner of the Deal · 3.3. Cutting before Each Deal | p.18 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 211 ms · first delta 6194 ms · total 8217 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 211 ms · ask 7993 ms · gateway work 8217 ms · total 8217 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2250
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 273
- tok/sec
- 138.7 tok/sec — 273 output tokens in 1.968 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 23s 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
- SERVED — setup-shaped and this game's approved setup checklist is offered above
- 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 73), 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.