Ruling — Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

← Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the Westbg-390092-en-1e

1. Assemble the game board on the table.[1]

2. Each player takes their company box and empties out the office, but not the vault.[1] (At the start of the first game, there will be one company bonus card in your office).[1]

3. Give each player $5 in coins.[1]

4. Shuffle newspapers into the train deck depending on the number of players: 6 newspapers for 2 players; 4 newspapers for 3 players; and 3 newspapers for 4-5 players.[1] Put any remaining newspapers in the store room.[1]

5. Shuffle the train cards and deal a starting hand of 4 train cards to each player.[1]

6. Place the remaining deck of train cards near the board, then turn the top five cards from the deck faceup.[1] (Any newspapers dealt to players or displayed among the five faceup cards must be reshuffled into the train deck and replaced with a new card; if three of the five faceup cards are locomotives, discard all five and turn five new ones faceup).[1]

7. Shuffle the tickets and deal 4 tickets to each player.[1] Place the remainder in a facedown deck in the ticket space on the board.[1] Each player must keep a minimum of 2 tickets (though they may keep more), and any returned cards are placed on the bottom of the ticket deck.[1] (In the rare case there are not enough tickets to deal 4 to each player, deal enough so everyone has the same amount—2 or 3—and all players must keep at least 1).[1]

8. Read out the story deck until you get to a PAUSE card, reading both sides of the cards.[1] (During this step, draw the top card of the story deck, turn it over, and read it).[2]

9. Shuffle the event cards and put them in a facedown deck on the reserved space on the board.[1]

10. Look at the back of your company box to see how many plastic trains of your color to use for that game (in the first game, this will be 20).[1] Return all unused plastic trains to the box.[1]

Additionally, before setting up the first game:

- Separate the newspapers from the other train cards.[3]

- Each player chooses a company and writes their name on their color's company box.[3]

- Put each company bonus card from the store room into its matching company box office.[3]

- Randomly assign the caboose card from the store room to one of the players.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook · p.6 · Before your First Game

[2] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook · p.5 · The Story deck · Events · Dollars · The hidden materials · Frontier Boards · Frontier Boxes · …

[3] RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook · p.5 · New Rules · Mysteries Await · Before your First Game

🔧 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 298 ms · ask 9737 ms · total 1507215 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1497170 ms · generation 10045 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Before your First Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 264}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The Story deck · Events · Dollars · The hidden materials · Frontier Boards · Frontier Boxes · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 264}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "New Rules · Mysteries Await · Before your First Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 264}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 264 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 264 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 14:34

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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	New Rules · Mysteries Await · Before your First Game	p.5	0.048652 (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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	The Story deck · Events · Dollars · The hidden materials · Frontier Boards · Frontier Boxes · …	p.5	0.047379 (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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Retiring · Postcards · Companies	p.4	0.046176 (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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Before your First Game · Draw Train cards · Drawing Locomotives	p.8	0.045476 (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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Before your First Game	p.6	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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Before your First Game	p.7	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))	200
#7	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Draw Tickets · 1. Determine the Winner · · Coins in Hand · · Bonus for Trains Remaining · · Total Ticket Value · TOTAL BANK SLIPS · …	p.12	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
#8	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	A I GN MA T ER ILS · Overview · Important note · Storing and retiring cards	p.4	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 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	Before your First Game	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	The Story deck · Events · Dollars · The hidden materials · Frontier Boards · Frontier Boxes · …	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West — Rulebook (corpus doc 264)	New Rules · Mysteries Await · Before your First Game	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 298 ms · first delta 5699 ms · total 1507215 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1497170 ms · retrieval 298 ms · ask 9737 ms · gateway work 10045 ms · total 1507215 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 5569
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 560
tok/sec: 135.2 tok/sec — 560 output tokens in 4.143 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s 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 192), 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.