Ruling — Wingspan

You asked

How do I setup the game?

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

Answered before

This question didn't get an answer just now — but Wingspan has been asked something like it before. The corpus may have changed since, so check the date and the answerer on each one before you rule from it.

How do I setup the game? →

Answered Aug 3, 2026 gemma4:26b

how do i setup? →

Answered Jul 22, 2026 gemma4:12b

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

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Americas Expansion · p.2 · Setup

Base game: Set up as normal. You can play with or without other expansions. In addition, do the following.

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook · p.3 · Setup

Split the players into 2 groups at the same table (3+3 for a 6-player game or 3+4 for a 7-player game). These groups remain fixed for the entire game. Replace all Global Components setup steps with the following: Turn-order dial. Place the turn-order dial in the middle of the table. The dial has two

RULEBOOK Wingspan — European Expansion · p.2 · Setup Changes

The only change to the setup for a game of Wingspan is to place the reference tile near the goal mat. We recommend using the green side of the goal mat with this expansion, as some of the new goals do not work well with the blue side. As a reminder, all action cubes should stay in the row used until

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.3 · Player Setup · 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards:

This is a detailed rulebook, but you can learn the entire game by using the Swift-Start cards and guides. We recommend using these guides for your first game. 6/15/21 7:35 AM TIP: When selecting bird cards, think about how they will help you get more cards or food early in the game. Brown powers can

RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook · p.2 · Player Setup

1 . Bird cards. Shuffle the bird cards into a deck. Place it next to the bird tray, then populate the tray with 3 face-up bird cards. Supply. Place all food and egg tokens in the supply. These are tokens accessible to all players. Birdfeeder. Toss the food dice into the birdfeeder dice tower. Goal b

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

corpus profile

live

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:12b-it-q8_0 think:false 41c402fdddc2

timings

search 272 ms · ask 13092 ms · total 13385 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 13385 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 909 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0
ruling 192 — matched by trigram similarity — measured similarity 0.625

debug row retained until

Nov 2, 2026 05:04

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 Wingspan — Americas Expansion (corpus doc 51)	Setup	p.2	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded)	106
#2	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Setup	p.3	0.031746 (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 Wingspan — European Expansion (corpus doc 47)	Setup Changes	p.2	0.030622 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Player Setup · 6/9/21 4:20 PM Swift-Start Guides and Cards:	p.3	0.030331 (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 Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Player Setup	p.2	0.028898 (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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Blue: One point per targeted item	p.15	0.028372 (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 Wingspan — Asia Rulebook (corpus doc 49)	Duet Mode Swift-Start Guides and Cards	p.5	0.028175 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Wingspan — Rulebook (corpus doc 198)	Blue: One point per targeted item	p.11	0.02739 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; 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 272 ms · first delta 13264 ms · total 13385 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 272 ms · ask 13092 ms · gateway work 13385 ms · total 13385 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2130
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 123.3 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.073 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 20s 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: 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): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

6 errata cards registered for edition 3 — these are what the gate above had to match against

anatomist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.2
belted kingfisher · HAND_PINNED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bird Cards) · corpus doc 65 · p.17
ecologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.5
oologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.1
photographer · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.3
rodentologist · HEADING_EXTRACTED · Wingspan — Update Pack (Corrected Bonus Cards) · corpus doc 66 · p.4

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.