Ruling — Carnegie

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Carnegiebg-310873-en-1e

For a standard (2-player) game setup:

1. Place the game board in the center of the table.[1]

2. Shuffle the 8 Timeline tiles, draw 4 at random, arrange them as shown, frame them with the Start and End tiles, and return the unused tiles to the box.[1]

3. Place the 4 action markers on their corresponding starting positions on the far left of the Timeline.[1]

4. Select 16 Department tiles at random and return them to the game box; place the remaining Department tiles face-up on the table, as shown.[1]

5. Create a supply of goods cubes and banknotes near the main game board.[1]

6. Provide each player with:

* 4 goods cubes and $12.[1]

* 1 Company board and a set of 4 different project tabs, sliding each tab under the right side of their individual game boards so colors and icons match, leaving the first space exposed.[1]

* 10 Employee figurines; each player places 1 employee standing up on each of their Company's 5 Departments and 5 employees lying down in their Company's Lobby, setting the remaining 5 aside.[1]

* 30 player disks; each player must place: 1 disk on the '0' position of the score track, 1 disk on the first space of each of the 4 regional transportation tracks, and 1 disk on each of the 3 available spaces on their project tabs (Housing, Commerce, Industry).[1] The remaining 22 disks form the player's personal supply.[1]

7. Designate the most daring player as the first player; that player receives the first-player marker and the Timeline marker.[1]

**Adjustments for different player counts:**

* **For a 3-player game:** Use 9 disks instead of 16 when selecting Department tiles.[2] The third player receives an Action Choice tile.[3][1]

* **For a 4-player game:** Skip the step of placing disks from the Housing tab onto the game board.[2] Give each player an Action Choice tile.[1]

**Additional steps for specific modes:**

* **Two-player/Solo setup (using unused color):** Set aside 18 disks from an unused player color and shuffle the solo-game action cards.[3][1] Draw one card and place a disk on the donation chart in the space indicated at the top of the card.[3][1] Place a disk on the leftmost unoccupied construction space of each of the 2-4 cities named on that card's 4th row; repeat until all 18 disks are placed.[3][1]

* **Solo game (Andrew Carnegie setup):** After player setup, place one disk for Andrew on each of the 4 regional transportation tracks.[4] Align Andrew's 5 victory-point cards in numerical order (0 VP on left, 10 VP on right).[4] Form a difficulty level by creating a face-down deck of action cards (20 for Beginner; 15 normal/5 advanced for Normal; 10 normal/10 advanced for Difficult; 5 normal/15 advanced for Expert), shuffle, and place to the left of the 0 VP card.[4] Place the Timeline marker next to the Timeline and the locomotive at the top-left of the 0 VP card.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.4 · Two-player game setup shown.

[2] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.5 · Two-player game setup shown.

[3] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.4 · Two-player game setup shown.

[4] RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook · p.18 · P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
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timings: search 305 ms · ask 12681 ms · total 12997 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 12997 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 302 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 302 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 07:06

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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.5	0.048412 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	0.047875 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card	p.18	0.047123 (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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	2.2. Make a Donation · 3. Use Dep artments · ACTION CHOICE TILES · TRADE GOODS FOR MONEY	p.8	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	4. Comp any Basics · 4.1. Company Organization · 4.3. Sending an Employee on a Mission · 4.2. Recruiting Employees	p.6	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 2: PLA YING THE GAME · 1. Select Timeline · 2. Events · 3. Use Departments · 4. Activate Employees & End of Round · 1. Select Timeline · …	p.7	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	1. Transport a tion Tracks · Transport Income · 2. Donations · To Make a Donation:	p.14	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 Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	Two-player game setup shown.	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Carnegie — Rulebook (corpus doc 302)	P ART 4: SOLO RULES · 1. Setup · 2. Pla ying the Game against Andrew · 2.1. New Action Card	p.18	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 305 ms · first delta 7522 ms · total 12997 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 305 ms · ask 12681 ms · gateway work 12997 ms · total 12997 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3591
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 738
tok/sec: 136.7 tok/sec — 738 output tokens in 5.399 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 6s 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 230), 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.