Ruling — Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Islandbg-121921-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps:

1. Place the board in the middle of the table.[1]

2. Decide which scenario to play (the introductory scenario, Castaways, is recommended for your first game).[1]

3. Place the chosen Scenario sheet next to the board and place the Round marker on the first space of the round track.[1]

4. Each player draws a Character sheet at random or chooses which character they want to play, then places it in front of them; unused sheets are returned to the box.[1]

5. Each player takes 2 Action pawns of the same color (blue, yellow, black, or orange), 1 Wound marker (placed on the square start space to the left of their Wound Track), and the Invention card mentioned on the right-hand side of their Character sheet (placed Invention side up next to the right edge of their Character sheet).[1]

6. Take all remaining Invention cards (including those from unused characters), gather the 9 default Invention cards, and place them, Invention side up, in no specific order, on the available Inventions area of the board.[1]

7. Shuffle the remaining Invention cards and place them next to the board, Invention side up, as the Invention deck.[1]

8. Draw the top 5 cards from the Invention deck and place them, Invention side up, next to the default Invention cards on the board.[1]

9. Place 1 black marker on the Shovel (a default Invention), covering its terrain type (beach), unless playing a Scenario that does not start on the beach.[1]

10. Place a white marker on the 0 space of the Morale track on the board.[1]

11. Place a black marker on the topmost space of the Weapon level track (level 0).[1]

12. Sort the Adventure cards by their backs into three decks, shuffle each thoroughly, and place them face down on their respective spaces on the board with the 3 corresponding Action dice for each deck.[1]

13. Shuffle the Beast cards and place them face down next to the board to form the Beast deck.[2]

14. Shuffle the Mystery cards and place them face down next to the board.[2]

15. Take the 11 Island tiles, find tile #8, and place it face up on the leftmost space in the center row on the board; place the Camp token on the tile with the camp side up (ignore this step if playing a Scenario that does not start on beach tile #8).[2]

16. Shuffle the remaining Island tiles and stack them face down next to the board.[2]

17. Take the 8 Starting Equipment cards, draw 2 at random, and place them next to the board; place 2 white markers on each drawn card in the respective spaces (1 for each use) and set the remaining Starting Equipment aside.[2]

18. Shuffle the Discovery tokens and stack them face down next to the board.[2]

19. Place all resources, Action and Weather dice, additional Action pawns, and all additional tokens and markers next to the board.[2]

20. Place the Wreckage card Food Crates on the right-hand Threat space of the board (or another Wreckage card of your choosing).[2]

21. Sort the Event cards into two piles: one with all cards showing a book symbol, and another with all cards showing adventure symbols in any of the 3 colors; shuffle both piles separately.[2]

22. Draw a number of cards from each pile equal to half the number of rounds of the selected scenario (rounding up if necessary), shuffle those drawn cards together without looking at the fronts, and place them face down in the corresponding space on the board to form the Event deck; return all other Event cards to the box.[2]

23. If playing with 4 players, cover the 'Arrange Camp' space on the board with the 'Arrange Camp' card.[2]

24. The youngest player becomes the First Player and receives the First Player token.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook · p.4 · 4 Character sheets · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook · p.5 · SETUP

🔧 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 260 ms · ask 21749 ms · total 476043 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 454025 ms · generation 22018 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "4 Character sheets · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 300}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 300}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 300 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 300 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 14:16

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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	4 Character sheets · SETUP	p.4	0.047493 (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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	EASIER GAME · HARDER GAME · RANDOM WRECKAGE CARDS	p.27	0.046671 (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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	SETUP	p.5	0.046343 (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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	GAME FLOW · HOW TO ASSIGN PAWNS · REQUIREMENTS FOR PLACING ACTION PAWNS	p.11	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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	3. BUILD · ROLLING THE ACTION DICE	p.16	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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	GAME FLOW · Example: · Examples:	p.12	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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	III. PRODUCTION PHASE · IV. ACTION PHASE	p.10	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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	STARTING EQUIPMENT, ITEMS, AND TREASURES	p.24	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 Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	4 Character sheets · SETUP	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 300)	SETUP	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 260 ms · first delta 15563 ms · total 476043 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 454025 ms · retrieval 260 ms · ask 21749 ms · gateway work 22018 ms · total 476043 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4003
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 874
tok/sec: 136.6 tok/sec — 874 output tokens in 6.397 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 50s 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 228), 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.