Ruling — 7 Wonders Duel

You asked

How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

1. Place the board between the two players on one side of the play area [1]. 2. Place the conflict pawn on the neutral space in the middle of the board [1]. 3. Place the 4 Military tokens face up, on their spaces [1]. 4. Shuffle the Progress tokens and place 5 of them randomly, face up, on the board; return the rest to the box [1]. 5. Each player takes 7 coins from the Bank [1]. 6. For your first game, ignore the Wonders Selection phase and take the following Wonders tiles: the Pyramids, the Great Lighthouse, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, Circus Maximus, Piraeus, the Appian Way, and the Colossus [2]. 7. Return 3 cards from each Age deck to the box without looking at them [2]. 8. Randomly draw 3 Guild cards and add them to the Age III deck without looking at them; return the remaining Guilds to the box [2].

[1] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook · p.6 · PREPARATION

[2] RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook · p.7 · Wonders Selection Phase · Player 1: · Player 2: · One deck per Age

🔧 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 265 ms · ask 26535 ms · total 26812 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 26812 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PREPARATION", "sharpsignalDocId": 192}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Wonders Selection Phase · Player 1: · Player 2: · One deck per Age", "sharpsignalDocId": 192}]
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: 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: Nov 1, 2026 05:43

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 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	END OF GAME AND VICTORY · Civilian Victory · CREDITS · Thanks:	p.13	0.030579 (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 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	CONSTRUCTING IN 7 WONDERS DUEL · Free Construction · Resource Cost · Production · Trading · Clarifications	p.8	0.03055 (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 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	The Appian Way · Circus Maximus · The Great Library · The Great Lighthouse · The Hanging Gardens · The Mausoleum · …	p.17	0.029828 (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 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	Builders Guild · Moneylenders Guild · Scientists Guild · Shipowners Guild · Clarifications: · Traders Guild · …	p.16	0.029214 (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 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	GAME OVERVIEW · Preparation of the structure · Game Turn · Note: · 1. Construct a Building · 2. Discard to obtain coins	p.10	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
#6	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	PREPARATION	p.6	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
#7	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	Wonders Selection Phase · Player 1: · Player 2: · One deck per Age	p.7	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
#8	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	3. Construct a Wonder · 7 Wonders, not one more! · END OF AN AGE	p.11	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	PREPARATION	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK 7 Wonders Duel — Rulebook (corpus doc 192)	Wonders Selection Phase · Player 1: · Player 2: · One deck per Age	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 265 ms · first delta 25165 ms · total 26812 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 265 ms · ask 26535 ms · gateway work 26812 ms · total 26812 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2644
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 217
tok/sec: 138.1 tok/sec — 217 output tokens in 1.571 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 43s 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): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 110), 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.