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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: One Night Ultimate Werewolfbg-147949-en-1e

To set up the game:
1. Select roles to use, which can include replacing basic setup cards with different ones.[1]
2. Ensure there are always 3 more cards than there are players.[1]
3. Before each round, place a token in the center of the table that corresponds to each of the cards in the game.[1]
[1] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook · p.2 · ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT
🔧 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 249 ms · ask 3724 ms · total 2115685 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 2111703 ms · generation 3982 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
[{"page": 2, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "You may use additional roles in your games beyond the basic setup. Just take out a card and replace it with a different one. You may use virtually any combination of cards, though you probably don't want to introduce more than 1 or 2 new roles at a time, so players can easily learn them. Regardless ", "headingPath": "ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "> At night, the Troublemaker may switch the cards of two other players without looking at those / * cards. The players who receive /M a different card are now the role (and team) of their new card, even though they don't know what role that is until the end of the game. The Troublemaker is on the vi", "headingPath": "y) TROUBLEMAKER", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "'Minion, wake up. Werewolves, stick out your thumb so the Minion can see who you are.' The Minion opens his eyes. The Werewolves stick out a thumb for the Minion to see. The Minions look around to see which players are Werewolves. 'Werewolves, put your thumbs away. Minion, close your eyes.' When usi", "headingPath": "~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER ))", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The Drunk is so drunk that he doesn't remember his role. When ily it comes time to wake up at night, IGE he must exchange his Drunk card for any card in the center, but he does not look atit. The Drunk is now the new role in front of him (even though he doesn't know what that new role is) and is on ", "headingPath": "y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "'Doppelganger, wake up and look at another player's card. You are now that role. If your new role has a night action, do it now.' The Doppelganger opens her eyes and looks at one other player's card. If the viewed card is the Seer, Robber, Troublemaker, or Drunk, she does that action right now. If t", "headingPath": "DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "The Werewolves open their eyes and look for anyone else whose eyes are open (there might not be any others). 'Werewolves, close your eyes.' Lone Wolf Option: \\f there is only one Werewolf, the Werewolf may view one center card. This is extremely beneficial to a Werewolf who doesn't have a partner, a", "headingPath": "'Werewolves, wake up and look for other Werewolves.' · ~- MINION", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "When playing with different roles, the order that the roles wake up at night is important. The following is a list of ALL the roles that are woken at night, and the order they should be woken relative to each other (only call the roles that are in your game): #1: Doppelganger #2: Werewolves #3: Mini", "headingPath": "NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "iY Y\\ The Doppelganger is a fairly ) he complicated card, because she A. -'@__ takes on the role and team of <- ay ) whatever card she views. If you in haven't played with most of the other roles yet, skip this section for now...it will make a lot more sense then. The Doppelganger wakes up before th", "headingPath": "DOPPELGANGER", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
[{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT", "sharpsignalDocId": 193}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 193 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 193 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 14:46

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT p.2 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) 300
#2 RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) y) TROUBLEMAKER p.4 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
#3 RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) ~- MINION · MASON · 'Seer, wake up. You may look at another player's card or two of the center cards.' · ' Jo ¢ ROBBER )) p.4 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
#4 RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) y) TROUBLEMAKER · 'Drunk, wake up and exchange your card with a card from the center.' · -, INSOMNIAC · 'Insomniac, wake up and look at your card.' · NO-WAKE ROLES · @ VILLAGER · … p.5 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) DOPPELGANGER · 'Doppelganger, if you viewed the Insomniac card, wake up and look at your card.' · )- WEREWOLF p.3 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) 'Werewolves, wake up and look for other Werewolves.' · ~- MINION p.3 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) NIGHT WAKE ORDER · ABOUT THE DESIGNERS · ABOUT THE ARTIST · ONE NIGHT PLAYMAT · DAYBREAK p.6 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 One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) DOPPELGANGER p.2 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 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.

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK One Night Ultimate Werewolf — Rulebook (corpus doc 193) ONE NIGHT ROLES · ROLES THAT WAKE UP AT NIGHT p.2 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 249 ms · first delta 3381 ms · total 2115685 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 2111703 ms · retrieval 249 ms · ask 3724 ms · gateway work 3982 ms · total 2115685 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3389
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
75
tok/sec
135.9 tok/sec — 75 output tokens in 0.552 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 17s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
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

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 111), 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.