Ruling — Bärenpark

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Bärenparkbg-219513-en-1e

1. Place the Supply Board in the center of the playing area.[1]

2. Stack the Green Areas on the designated spaces: use all Toilets and Playgrounds; only use four Food Streets and four Rivers per player—leave the rest in the game box.[1]

3. Select the appropriate Animal Houses based on the number of players and leave the rest in the game box.[1]

4. Place the Enclosures on the designated spaces, always using all tiles regardless of the number of players.[1]

5. Lay out the Bear Statues next to the game board in numerical order; the number of players defines the values used, and the rest are left in the game box.[1]

6. Shuffle the 12 Park Areas without an Entrance and place them in two piles of six tiles each within reach of all players, with only the top Park Area in each pile visible.[1]

7. Each player receives a random Park Area with an Entrance, placed in front of them so that the Entrance is closest to them and icons are in the correct orientation.[2]

8. Determine the starting player (the player who last visited an animal park or at random).[2]

9. Assign initial tiles to players: the starting player gets a Toilet; the second player gets a Playground; the third player gets a Playground (or a Food Street in a three-player game); and the fourth player gets a Food Street.[2]

10. Place the assigned tile in front of each player to serve as their supply.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.2 · SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook · p.3 · COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 66 ms · ask 3568 ms · total 3636 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3636 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 2, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "1 . Place the Supply Board in the center of the playing area. It is used to store the Green Areas, Animal Houses , and Enclosures . 2 . Stack the Green Areas on the designated spaces: use all Toilets and Playgrounds ; only use four Food Streets and four Rivers per player-leave the rest in the game b", "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.047643, "snippet": "When a player completes all of their four Park Areas, each other player gets one more turn. After that, the game ends and you score your parks. To do so, add up all the values on tiles in your park (including Bear Statues). We recommend experienced players include Achievements in their games; these ", "headingPath": "GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Play goes around the table in clockwise order. The starting player goes first. Then the next player takes their turn and so on, until the end of the game (see page 5). A turn consists of three steps: First you must place exactly one tile from your supply in your park. Even if you have more than one ", "headingPath": "COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Next you must evaluate the icons you covered with the newly placed tile. If you cover more than one icon, carry them all out in any order. Most icons provide new tiles. There is no limit to the number of tiles you may have in your supply. Take a Green Area of your choice (Toilet, Playground, Food St", "headingPath": "B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "When it is your turn and you have no tile in your supply that you could place in your park, you must pass. Take a free Green Area of your choice (Toilet, Playground, Food Street, River) from the Supply Board and place it in your supply. Your turn ends immediately. You can only place the free tile on", "headingPath": "Passing", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "* Although koalas are not really bears, people like koalas, so we will be including them in our park! Bear parks: it's the next big thing! In order to be successful, you must skillfully fit together enclosures, animal houses and green areas, and use every available inch of your land. Animal houses a", "headingPath": "GAME IDEA", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "1 GAME IDEA Bear parks: it’s the next big thing! In order to be successful, you must skillfully fit together enclosures, animal houses and green areas, and use every available inch of your land. Animal houses and enclosures are worth points, and are more valuable if you build them quickly. Construct", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "www.mayfairgames.com Mayfair Games, Inc 8060 St. Louis Ave. Skokie, IL 60076 TM & © 2016 Mayfair Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Gobi Bears (values 8, 5, 2) There are three tiles with Gobi bears in your park (regardless of size). These tiles need not be adjacent to one another. Pandas (values 8, 5,", "headingPath": "MAYFAIR GAMES", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile", "sharpsignalDocId": 473}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 473 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 473 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.92902 of 1127 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 18:42

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 rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	SETUP	p.2	0.048916 (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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement	p.5	0.047643 (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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.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))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue	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
#5	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	Passing	p.4	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME IDEA	p.1	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)		p.1	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 Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	MAYFAIR GAMES	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.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 9 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 at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	SETUP	p.2	#1	0.048916 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.3	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	Passing	p.4	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	B - Evaluate Icons · Green Wheelbarrow · White Cement Truck · Orange Excavator · Construction Crew · C - Place a Bear Statue	p.4	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	MAYFAIR GAMES	p.6	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME IDEA	p.1	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)		p.1	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	GAME END · EXPERT VARIANT: ACHIEVEMENTS · D - Claim an Achievement	p.5	#2	0.047643 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Bärenpark — Rulebook (corpus doc 473)	COURSE OF PLAY · A - Place a Tile	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 66 ms · first delta 1285 ms · total 3636 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 66 ms · ask 3568 ms · gateway work 3636 ms · total 3636 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2976
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 322
tok/sec: 139.5 tok/sec — 322 output tokens in 2.308 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s 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 403), 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.