Ruling — The Crew: Mission Deep Sea

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: The Crew: Mission Deep Seabg-324856-en-1e

For a two-person game, follow these steps to setup: 1. Set aside the submarine card with a value of four [1]. 2. From the remaining 39 large playing cards, place seven face down next to each other in a single row [1]. 3. Place seven face up in a row on top of those face down cards [1]. 4. Mix the submarine card with a value of four back into the remaining cards and deal them out face down and equally between both crew members, so each ends up with 13 cards [1]. 5. Each player places one reminder card and one sonar token with the green side up in front of him or her [1]. 6. Display the distress signal token face down [1]. 7. Shuffle the 96 small task cards and have them ready face down in a pile [1]. 8. In a two-person game, use a double row of 14 cards to represent Tonoja as a third crew member [2]. 9. Decide where Tonoja should "sit" [2]. 10. Once tasks are assigned, set the time on a device of your choosing [3].

[1] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.21 · Real-time missions · Free selection of tasks · TWO-PERSON GAME

[2] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.22 · TWO-PERSON GAME

[3] RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook · p.20 · Rapture of the Deep · Unfamiliar terrain · Real-time missions

🔧 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 205 ms · ask 7421 ms · total 7638 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7638 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 21, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Real-time missions · Free selection of tasks · TWO-PERSON GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 195}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "TWO-PERSON GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 195}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Rapture of the Deep · Unfamiliar terrain · Real-time missions", "sharpsignalDocId": 195}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 195 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 195 boosted
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 2, 2026 12:50

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. 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 Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Real-time missions · Free selection of tasks · TWO-PERSON GAME	p.21	0.04866 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TWO-PERSON GAME	p.22	0.047883 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)		p.1	0.047643 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	MISSION SEQUENCE	p.11	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Communication: · MISSION PREPARATION	p.7	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	MISSION SEQUENCE	p.9	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Rapture of the Deep · Unfamiliar terrain · Real-time missions	p.20	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Trick-taking game · Communication · Rules of thumb for communication:	p.5	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Real-time missions · Free selection of tasks · TWO-PERSON GAME	p.21	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	TWO-PERSON GAME	p.22	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK The Crew: Mission Deep Sea — Rulebook (corpus doc 195)	Rapture of the Deep · Unfamiliar terrain · Real-time missions	p.20	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 205 ms · first delta 5738 ms · total 7638 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 205 ms · ask 7421 ms · gateway work 7638 ms · total 7638 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3393
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 251
tok/sec: 136.1 tok/sec — 251 output tokens in 1.844 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 49s 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 113), 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.