Ruling — Nusfjord

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps based on the number of players:

**General Setup (All Player Counts)**

1. Turn the Action board to the appropriate side according to the number of players.[1]

2. Place the goods (wood, fish, and gold) and the Forests ready at hand in a general supply.[2]

**For 2-Player Games**

1. Prepare the game as you would a 2-player game.[3]

2. Use the solo game First Player tile, turning it to the side showing 'Solo Game', and place the First Player ship on Round space 1.[3]

3. For your personal display, only use the red player-specific components and the blue Worker disks.[3]

4. Place the Imitation tile alongside the bottom edge of the Action board, with the 4-player game side facing up (showing one action space).[3]

5. Only set the 'C' Buildings aside; return the remaining 'A' and 'B' Buildings to the game box.[2]

**For 4- and 5-Player Games**

1. Turn the Imitation tile to the appropriate side, according to the number of players (the 4-player side shows one space; the 5-player side shows three spaces), and place it alongside the bottom edge of the Action board.[4]

2. Place the Banquet Table to the left of the Action board next to the 'Serve Fish' action space.[4]

3. Fill a number of Banquet Table plates with 1 fish each, using one less plate than the number of players, filling them in increasing numerical order starting with the smallest plate.[4]

4. Place the Ships and Elders supply board to the right of the Action board.[4]

5. Sort the Ship tiles by type and place a number of each type on the designated spaces of the supply board (using one more than the number of players).[4]

6. Find the appropriate Elder cards according to the number of players and place them face up on the designated spaces of the supply board.[4]

7. If playing with 5 players, shuffle the remaining six Elders (#13-18) that are not shown on the spaces and place one face down at the bottom of each of the six Elder stacks.[4]

8. Place the two Building supply boards next to the Ships and Elders supply board.[4]

9. Choose one of the three Building decks and return the other two to the game box.[2][4]

10. Separate the chosen cards into 'A', 'B', and 'C' Buildings and shuffle each pile separately, placing them face down on the table.[2][4]

[1] RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook · p.4 · SETUP · CENTRAL DISPLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook · p.4 · In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to

[3] RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook · p.16 · SETUP · COURSE OF PLAY · Imitation · Thank You! · GAME END AND SCORING

[4] RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook · p.4 · In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to

🔧 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 234 ms · ask 12047 ms · total 47282 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 34991 ms · generation 12291 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP · CENTRAL DISPLAY", "sharpsignalDocId": 418}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to", "sharpsignalDocId": 418}, {"page": 16, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP · COURSE OF PLAY · Imitation · Thank You! · GAME END AND SCORING", "sharpsignalDocId": 418}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to", "sharpsignalDocId": 418}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 418 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 418 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 7, 2026 05:04

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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	PHASE II: WORK PHASE · This Phase is played clockwise. · Notes:	p.8	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
#2	RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	PHASE III: RETURNING HOME PHASE · This Phase is played simultaneously.	p.9	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	SETUP · COURSE OF PLAY · Imitation · Thank You! · GAME END AND SCORING	p.16	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to · Personal Supply	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to	p.4	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	THE ADVANCED SOLO GAME · CAMPAIGN	p.16	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	COURSE OF PLAY · PHASE I: FISHING PHASE · This Phase is played simultaneously. · The Fishing Track · 1. Elders · 2. Your Shares in Foreign Possession · …	p.6	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 Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	SETUP · CENTRAL DISPLAY	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	SETUP · COURSE OF PLAY · Imitation · Thank You! · GAME END AND SCORING	p.16	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Nusfjord — Rulebook (corpus doc 418)	In 4- and 5-player games only: Turn the Imitation tile to	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 234 ms · first delta 5030 ms · total 47282 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 34991 ms · retrieval 234 ms · ask 12047 ms · gateway work 12291 ms · total 47282 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3224
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 578
tok/sec: 80.4 tok/sec — 578 output tokens in 7.192 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.

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: BEFORE_FIRST_PLAY — "before the first turn" / "before we begin"
matched words (in the normalized question): before the first turn

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 347), 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.