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How do I setup the game?

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To setup the game, follow these steps:
1. Place the three game boards as shown in the provided illustration.[1]
2. Each player chooses a color and takes the playing pieces of that color, along with one farmyard, placing them in front of the player (facing any chosen direction).[1]
3. On each of the two building spaces on the chosen farmyard, players place one Wooden hut room tile and then place one of their Family members in each of these rooms.[1]
4. Place the remaining playing pieces (additional Family members, fences, and stables) either in the bag or to one side.[1]
5. Sort the remaining house and hut tiles and the rest of the game components and place them beside the playing area.[1]
6. Sort cards according to the color of their reverse side.[2]
7. Sort blue Round cards by Stage, shuffling each small pile and stacking them with Stage 6 at the bottom, Stage 5 on top of that, and so on, until Stage 1 is on top.[2]
8. If playing with 3, 4, or 5 players, take the corresponding set of green Action cards and place them face up on the spaces to the left of the first game board (use 4 cards for a 3-player game; 6 cards for 4- or 5-player games).[2]
9. Place grey Begging cards face-up beside the playing area.[3]
10. Each player takes a Summary card and places it in their playing area.[3]
11. Choose a starting player, who receives the Starting player marker and 2 Food; all other players receive 3 Food.[3]
[1] RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook · p.2 · preparinG to play
[2] RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook · p.2 · Cards
[3] RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook · p.3 · Reverse sides: · startinG player · play of the Game · phase 1: start the round - draW a neW round Card. · phase 2: replenish - plaCe neW Goods and animals.
🔧 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 429 ms · ask 8648 ms · total 9087 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 9087 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 271 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 271 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 10, 2026 22:47

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. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Cards p.2 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
#2 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) preparinG to play p.2 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
#3 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) solo version (for 1 person, from 12 years) · To play a series of Solo games: · 1. the aCtion spaCes 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
#4 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Reverse sides: · startinG player · play of the Game · phase 1: start the round - draW a neW round Card. · phase 2: replenish - plaCe neW Goods and animals. p.3 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
#5 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) objeCt of the Game 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
#6 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) phase 3: Work phase 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
#7 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) phase 3: Work phase 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
#8 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) 1.2. aCtion spaCes on the round Cards. p.9 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.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 51 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) preparinG to play p.2 #2 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#2 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) 1.2. aCtion spaCes on the round Cards. p.9 #8 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#3 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) solo version (for 1 person, from 12 years) · To play a series of Solo games: · 1. the aCtion spaCes p.9 #3 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#4 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Cards p.2 #1 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)) vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#5 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) end of the Game p.4 #12 0.013889 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one)) vector the re-ranker chose it
#6 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) 1.1. aCtions that are printed on spaCes on the Game board p.9 #15 0.013333 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one)) vector the re-ranker chose it
#7 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) objeCt of the Game p.2 #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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#8 RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Reverse sides: · startinG player · play of the Game · phase 1: start the round - draW a neW round Card. · phase 2: replenish - plaCe neW Goods and animals. p.3 #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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

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 Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) preparinG to play p.2 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Cards p.2 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Agricola — Rulebook (corpus doc 271) Reverse sides: · startinG player · play of the Game · phase 1: start the round - draW a neW round Card. · phase 2: replenish - plaCe neW Goods and animals. p.3 no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split
retrieval 429 ms · first delta 6424 ms · total 9087 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 429 ms · ask 8648 ms · gateway work 9087 ms · total 9087 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3243
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
363
tok/sec
138.8 tok/sec — 363 output tokens in 2.616 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
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 199), 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.