Ruling — Lancaster

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How do I setup the game?

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To set up the game, follow these steps:

1. Affix the stickers of the archers and the Tudor knights to 3 each of the 6 brown wooden discs.[1]

2. Affix one bishop sticker to each of the 9 black wooden discs.[1]

3. Affix one lord sticker of the player colors to each of the remaining 5 discs.[1]

4. Place the regal board below the Parliament board.[1]

5. Place the privileges (2 shields, 3 archers and 3 Tudor knights) on their supply spaces of the regal board.[1]

6. Place the 24 regal seals on their designated supply space.[1]

7. Place 3 office cards next to the regal board.[1]

8. Place a certain number of bishops on the regal board according to the number of players: 5 bishops for 2/3 players, 7 bishops for 4 players, or 9 bishops for 5 players.[1]

9. Give each player 1 lord token of their player color.[1]

10. Each player places their lord token on the coat of arms icon of their castle board.[1]

11. If playing with the expansion 'Henry V - The Power of the King', put the 9 tiles for the basic game into the bag and mix them well; if using the expansion, remove power point tiles A, D & F and use the seal tiles A, D & F instead.[2]

12. For law cards, you may replace all laws of the basic game with the new law cards, or combine them by replacing old cards with new ones step-by-step.[3]

13. To build a draw pile for groups 0 to 4 using either old or new laws, sort the old and new law cards separately by their numbers on the back.[3]

14. For a random combination of laws, put one old and one new card in the linen bag for each group (0 to 4) one after the other, then draw one of the two cards to indicate which is used for that group.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook · p.13 · New components and set-up modifications

[2] RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook · p.20 · New components and set-up · Sequence of play · Counties · Summary of reward tiles · Special features in the 2-player game · QUEENIE 1: REWARD TILES

[3] RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook · p.11 · · 18 new law cards · PARLIAMENT · 1st option 'The game with the new laws' · 2nd option 'The game with variable combinations' · Nobleman tiles

🔧 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 641 ms · ask 9628 ms · total 10281 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10281 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 13, "quote": null, "headingPath": "New components and set-up modifications", "sharpsignalDocId": 139}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "New components and set-up · Sequence of play · Counties · Summary of reward tiles · Special features in the 2-player game · QUEENIE 1: REWARD TILES", "sharpsignalDocId": 139}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "· 18 new law cards · PARLIAMENT · 1st option 'The game with the new laws' · 2nd option 'The game with variable combinations' · Nobleman tiles", "sharpsignalDocId": 139}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 139 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 139 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 14:40

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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	New components and set-up modifications	p.13	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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	New components and set-up · Sequence of play · Counties · Summary of reward tiles · Special features in the 2-player game · QUEENIE 1: REWARD TILES	p.20	0.046898 (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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	· 18 new law cards · PARLIAMENT · 1st option 'The game with the new laws' · 2nd option 'The game with variable combinations' · Nobleman tiles	p.11	0.046244 (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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	Sequence of play modifications · Phase 1: Place knights or the lord · The lord applies for an office · The lord enters the treasury	p.14	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
#5	RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	Object of the game · Common components: · Individual components of the players (in 5 colors): · Give each player...	p.1	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
#6	RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	Sequence of play · Phase 1: Place knights · County	p.2	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
#7	RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	Phase 1: Place knights	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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	Use the rules for 4 players, with following amendments: · Set-up · Each player selects the color of their ally and receives additionally: · Phase 1: Place knights · Phase 2: Parliament	p.7	0.029877 (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 Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	New components and set-up modifications	p.13	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	New components and set-up · Sequence of play · Counties · Summary of reward tiles · Special features in the 2-player game · QUEENIE 1: REWARD TILES	p.20	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lancaster — Rulebook (corpus doc 139)	· 18 new law cards · PARLIAMENT · 1st option 'The game with the new laws' · 2nd option 'The game with variable combinations' · Nobleman tiles	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 641 ms · first delta 6921 ms · total 10281 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 641 ms · ask 9628 ms · gateway work 10281 ms · total 10281 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4120
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 451
tok/sec: 136.8 tok/sec — 451 output tokens in 3.296 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 26s 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 61), 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.