Ruling — A Feast for Odin

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: A Feast for Odinbg-177736-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps:

1. Divide goods (except sheep and cattle) into two piles and place each pile in its designated compartment of the goods boxes.[1]

2. Open the goods boxes and place them on the table next to each other.[1]

3. Place the large action board in the middle of the table.[1]

4. In a 4-player game, add the two extension tiles to the game board by randomly choosing which side is face up.[1]

5. Place the supply boards for special tiles and ships next to the goods boxes.[1]

6. Place special tiles on the oval supply board.[1]

7. Sort ships by type and place them face up in separate stacks on the supply board.[1]

8. Shuffle eight mountain strips and turn two of them face up (three strips for a 4-player game).[2]

9. Form a face down draw pile with the remaining mountain strips.[2]

10. Place the depicted goods on the spaces of the face up mountain strips.[2]

11. Sort the remaining wood, stone, ore, and silver tokens by type and place them ready at hand.[2]

12. Lay out the four exploration boards with their 'Shetland', 'Faroe Islands', 'Iceland', and 'Greenland' sides facing up in that order.[2]

13. Place the 'shed', 'stone house', and 'long house' building tiles in separate stacks on the table.[2]

14. Place the round overview tile on the table and place the white round tracking cube on space 1.[2]

15. Sort occupation cards according to their light or dark brown back to form two stacks.[3]

16. Shuffle the remaining weapon cards and place them face down in a stack on the table.[3]

17. Shuffle the occupation cards with a dark brown back and also place them face down in a stack on the table.[3]

18. Each player takes a home board, decides how many rounds to play, and places the corresponding side face up.[4]

19. Each player chooses a color and takes 12 Vikings of that color.[4]

20. Place one Viking on each numbered space of the 'Banquet Table' track on your home board and the rest on the 'Thing Square'.[4]

21. Each player draws 1 starting card from the stack of light brown occupation cards into their hand, then remove the remaining light brown cards from the game.[3]

22. Each player takes 1 'bow and arrow', 1 'snare', and 1 'spear' weapon card, as well as 1 'mead' goods tile.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.4 · Goods · Action Board and Goods Boxes · Supply Boards for Special Tiles and Ships

[2] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.6 · Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …

[3] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.5 · Before Your first Game · Occupation and Weapon Cards

[4] RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook · p.5 · Your Personal Boards and the Vikings

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
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timings: search 239 ms · ask 11970 ms · total 370145 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 357926 ms · generation 12219 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 254 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 254 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 14:14

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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	the solo Game · Course of a Round:	p.23	0.048916 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Notes on the Phases of a Round:	p.23	0.047123 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Your Personal Boards and the Vikings	p.5	0.032258 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 4: Draw a New Weapon · Phase 5: Actions · Phase 6: Determine Start Player	p.9	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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Before Your first Game · Occupation and Weapon Cards	p.5	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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Exploration · Occupation · Extension Tiles in the 4-Player Game	p.20	0.030679 (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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 7: Income	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
#8	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Phase 2: Harvest · Course of plaY · Phase 1: A New Viking · The numbers on the tiles mean: · Phase 3: Turn Exploration Boards and Placing Silver	p.8	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

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 A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Goods · Action Board and Goods Boxes · Supply Boards for Special Tiles and Ships	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Mountain Strips, Building Resources, and Silver · Exploration Boards · Building Tiles · Overview Tiles · General overview · How to Play the Game · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Before Your first Game · Occupation and Weapon Cards	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK A Feast for Odin — Rulebook (corpus doc 254)	Your Personal Boards and the Vikings	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 239 ms · first delta 7919 ms · total 370145 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 357926 ms · retrieval 239 ms · ask 11970 ms · gateway work 12219 ms · total 370145 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3624
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 586
tok/sec: 137.7 tok/sec — 586 output tokens in 4.256 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 39s 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 180), 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.