Ruling — The Castles of Burgundy

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How do I set up the game?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

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How do I set up the game? →

Answered Aug 8, 2026 gemma4:26b read The Castles of Burgundy

How do I set up the game? →

Answered Aug 3, 2026 gemma4:26b

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.14 · GAME SETUP

All rules of the base game apply, except for the following exceptions and additions: You start the game with 1 silver coin, 2 workers and 3 random goods tiles (place them next to your player board). Take a castle tile and place it on any dark green castle space in your duchy (side 13A is for beginni

RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.2 · Game setup · Place the 24 silver coins and 26 worker chips as well as the white die next to the game board. · Each player chooses a color and takes:

(Before playing for the first time, carefully remove all tiles from the punch-out boards.) The back side shows the game board for the 2- and 3-player game. The only difference is the number of hex tiles per depot, including the black depot. See page 11 for more details. Divide the 164 hex tiles by t

RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.13 · the team Game · GAME SETUP · Each team receives: · PLAYING THE GAME · Notes: · FINAL SCORING

Form teams of 2 players, seated next to each other (if possible). All rules of the base game apply, except for the following changes: The section that starts with "each player receives" in the base game rules is changed to: -a team board consisting of 2 board halves (12a1 + 12a2) (After you have gai

RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.15 · The shields · GAME SETUP · 2 players: · PLAYING THE GAME

All rules of the base game apply, except for the following exceptions and additions: Shuffle the 18 shields face down. Randomly place them on the goods spaces of the six depots on the game board based on the number of players (below). Once placed turn them face up. 1 shield per depot 3 players: 1 sh

RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook · p.4 · THE FIVE GAME ROUNDS · A PLAYER'S TURN · the fIve rounds · THE GAME ACTIONS

After setting up the new phase, you play 5 rounds. Each round plays the same: First, each player rolls their two dice. The starting player also rolls the white die. All dice must be visible for all players. Note: Rolling all dice simultaneously allows players to plan their turn. The starting player

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

corpus profile

live

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 252 ms · ask 5577 ms · total 5840 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 5840 ms

retrieval refs (raw)

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citations (raw)

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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

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

past answered rulings were found and offered

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

ruling 1958 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
ruling 902 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0

debug row retained until

Oct 31, 2026 14:25

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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	GAME SETUP	p.14	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded)	300
#2	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	Game setup · Place the 24 silver coins and 26 worker chips as well as the white die next to the game board. · Each player chooses a color and takes:	p.2	0.032258 (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 The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	the team Game · GAME SETUP · Each team receives: · PLAYING THE GAME · Notes: · FINAL SCORING	p.13	0.031498 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#4	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	The shields · GAME SETUP · 2 players: · PLAYING THE GAME	p.15	0.030798 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#5	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	THE FIVE GAME ROUNDS · A PLAYER'S TURN · the fIve rounds · THE GAME ACTIONS	p.4	0.030303 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#6	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	IF YOU ARE ALREADY VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE GAME	p.16	0.029877 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#7	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.14	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
#8	RULEBOOK The Castles of Burgundy — Rulebook (corpus doc 154)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.14	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 252 ms · first delta 5736 ms · total 5840 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 252 ms · ask 5577 ms · gateway work 5840 ms · total 5840 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3325
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 130.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.069 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 30s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 76), 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.