Ruling — Lisboa

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How do I set up the game?

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To set up the game, follow these steps:

**Player Board Setup**

1. Each player chooses a color and takes one player board, one Player Aid book, 5 Rubble Set markers (cubes), 8 wooden houses, 8 Officials (meeples), 1 Good tile of each type (gold, books, cloth, tools), and 10 réis.[1][2]

2. Each player draws 2 Clergy tiles from the Clergy Tile bag at random, keeps one, and returns the other to the bag.[2]

3. Each player takes 1 random Royal Favor tile drawn from the Rubble bag.[2]

4. Each player takes 1 random Starting Plan (the ones with the dark blue backs) and returns any remaining Starting Plans to the box.[2]

5. Place 1 Courtier meeple in one of the Royal Court spaces on the player board.[2]

6. Place 1 Wigs marker on space 5 of the Wigs score track.[2]

**Card and Deck Setup**

7. Separate Political cards into decks by color, shuffle each deck, and set them aside.[3]

8. Deal 5 cards to each player from the blue deck (1s755-1757) and return remaining cards to the box; experienced players may draft hands by keeping 2 and passing 3 to the left, then keeping 1 and passing 2, then keeping 1 and passing 1.[3]

9. Distribute all cards from the red deck (1758-1762) face-down in the Event display, separated by type on their respective spaces to create 4 decks of 5 unique cards each, then flip the top card of each deck face-up.[3]

10. Include Ship cards based on player count: with 4 players include 3 of each; with 3 players include 2 of each; with 2 players include 1 of each, and return any remaining copies to the box.[3]

11. Stack blue Ship cards atop red Ship cards and place the stack face-up in the shipyard; set others aside for later use.[3]

12. Shuffle the Decree deck, place it face-down next to the gameboard, and lay out the top 8 cards face-up (in a 2-player game, any Decree cards with the specific symbol must be immediately replaced).[3]

13. Flip all 16 Public Buildings blue-side-up, shuffle them, split into two stacks of 8, and flip one stack green-side-up; place each stack beside the plan space of the same-color architect.[1]

14. Move the top tile of each architect's Public Building stack into that architect's plan space.[1]

15. Separate Plan tiles into two face-up stacks (green or blue) based on the depicted architect, sorted by number of officials (fewest on top, most on bottom), and place each stack on the appropriate space.[1]

**Gameboard and Component Setup**

16. Place 4 Price markers in the spaces marked with the goods' colors on the market track.[1]

17. Place one City tile on each space (yellow, pink, brown, blue, small blue) on the board to form the City Building display; leave remaining tiles in stacks near the display.[1]

18. Shuffle 4 Scoring tiles depicting wigs and place a random one in each space at the bottom of the downtown map (in a 2-player game, skip row E).[1]

19. Draw 6 Clergy tiles from the Clergy Tile bag and place them face-up (wigs-side-down) on the dark spaces of the Church track; place the Cardinal meeple on the space with the Influence symbol.[1]

20. Put 1 Royal Favor tile of each character, per player, in the Rubble bag; dump remaining Royal Favor tiles from the Rubble bag and stack them for each character on their portrait space.[1][2]

21. Place the big Treasury marker cube on space 3 of the Treasury track.[1]

22. Place all goods and all money next to the gameboard to form the general supply and the Royal Treasury.[1]

23. Place all Rubble cubes in the Rubble bag.[3]

24. Place one random Rubble cube from the bag in each space at the bottom of the columns of the Downtown map and at the right end of the rows (skip row E in a 2-player game).[3]

25. Place 2 random Rubble cubes in each Public Building Site around the three edges of Downtown (skip row E in a 2-player game).[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.6 · Public Buildings · Plans · Stores · Church · Other Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.5 · SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)

[3] RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook · p.7 · Card Setup · Simulate the Earthquake

🔧 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 15768 ms · total 44592 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 28603 ms · generation 15989 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Public Buildings · Plans · Stores · Church · Other Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Card Setup · Simulate the Earthquake", "sharpsignalDocId": 289}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 289 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 289 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 6, 2026 14:08

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. How much wider that pool was is set gateway-side and is NOT REPORTED for this ruling, and neither are the answerer's final rows — so rulesage has nothing of its own to show beside these.

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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Card Setup · Simulate the Earthquake	p.7	0.046751 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Public Buildings · Plans · Stores · Church · Other Setup	p.6	0.044904 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Dock Your Ships · Get 1 Gold · Example	p.8	0.044557 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Take an Action · Play into Your Portfolio · Play into the Royal Court · Your Portfolio · Designer's Tip · Playing a Card into Your Portfolio · …	p.9	0.044103 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)	p.5	0.032787 (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 Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Example	p.22	0.03125 (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))	246
#7	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Build a Store · Calculating Land Price	p.17	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
#8	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Open a Public Building	p.20	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

the passages the answerer read: NOT RECORDED for this ruling. Any of three things leaves this empty, and they are all different from the answerer having had nothing to read: this ask may never have reached a gateway at all; a multi-book ask keeps each book's own context on that book's own page rather than here; or the gateway build that answered may simply not report it. What this NEVER means is that the answerer read nothing — an answer was composed from passages either way, and their absence here is a gap in what we were told, not in what it read.

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Public Buildings · Plans · Stores · Church · Other Setup	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	SETUP · Player Board Setup: · And on the Gameboard (see next page)	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lisboa — Rulebook (corpus doc 289)	Card Setup · Simulate the Earthquake	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 211 ms · first delta 8381 ms · total 44592 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 28603 ms · retrieval 211 ms · ask 15768 ms · gateway work 15989 ms · total 44592 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4004
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 135.6 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 7.554 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 218), 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.