Ruling — Kanban EV

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After setup, but before the game begins, perform these steps:

1. Choose a start player at random.[1]

2. Beginning with that player and in clockwise order, each player places their Certification marker on an empty space in the leftmost section of the Certification track.[1]

3. When placing a marker on a space with a depicted benefit, immediately receive that benefit.[1]

4. In Certification track order (from right to left), each player takes 1 Car Part from Logistics and 1 Design tile from Design.[1]

5. Place each taken item in the appropriate space on your Player board.[1]

6. Refill empty Design spaces by sliding tiles to the right to fill gaps and then filling any remaining empty spaces with tiles from the corresponding stack.[1]

The game is played over a series of rounds, each representing one day of work, consisting of these phases:

1. Department Selection Phase: Players take turns choosing a workstation in a department in which they want to work.[1] In the first day, players choose an empty workstation in any department and place their Worker meeple on the space, standing upright.[2] In subsequent rounds, players select a different department from the one they are currently in and then place their Worker meeple on an empty workstation in that department.[2]

2. Work Phase: In workstation order, players use their Shifts to work and/or train in the department they chose.[1]

3. Meeting (may occur after the Work Phase and before the end of the day): Once everyone passes consecutively, return Speech tokens used during the Meeting back to the respective players, placing them to the side of their Player boards; discard face-up Performance Goal cards; and any player with Generic Speech tokens by the side of their Player board may return those to the supply to move one of their own Speech tokens from the side of their Player board onto an empty space on their Player board.[3]

The game continues until a certain number of Weeks and Meetings have passed, at which point final scoring occurs and the player with the most PP is declared the winner.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook · p.7 · NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION · GAME STRUCTURE

[2] RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook · p.7 · 1. DEPARTMENT SELECTION PHASE

[3] RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook · p.21 · Example 2: · END OF THE MEETING

🔧 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 74 ms · ask 5604 ms · total 19472 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 13792 ms · generation 5680 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION · GAME STRUCTURE", "sharpsignalDocId": 287}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1. DEPARTMENT SELECTION PHASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 287}, {"page": 21, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Example 2: · END OF THE MEETING", "sharpsignalDocId": 287}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 287 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 287 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 0.94496 of 1726 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 13:37

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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION · GAME STRUCTURE	p.7	0.046964 (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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	END OF THE GAME	p.21	0.045921 (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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	PLAYER SETUP	p.6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	HOMEWORK · Example · GAINING BOOKS, PARTS VOUCHERS, AND BANKED SHIFTS · ADVANCED TRAINING	p.9	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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	1. DEPARTMENT SELECTION PHASE	p.7	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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	END OF THE GAME · VARIANT 1 · VARIANT 2 · VARIANT 3 · VARIANT 4 · VARIANT 1 - NICE SANDRA · …	p.22	0.030622 (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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	TASK: RECEIVE PARTS VOUCHER	p.11	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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	Example	p.8	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

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 44 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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION · GAME STRUCTURE	p.7	#1	0.046964 (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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	SANDRA, THE FACTORY MANAGER · Example: · EVALUATION	p.17	#22	0.012987 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	END OF THE GAME	p.21	#2	0.045921 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	GENERIC SPEECH TOKENS	p.9	#10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	END OF THE GAME · VARIANT 1 · VARIANT 2 · VARIANT 3 · VARIANT 4 · VARIANT 1 - NICE SANDRA · …	p.22	#6	0.030622 (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 re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	Example 2: · END OF THE MEETING	p.21	#11	0.029083 (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 re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	1. DEPARTMENT SELECTION PHASE	p.7	#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 Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	PLAYER SETUP	p.6	#3	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION · GAME STRUCTURE	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	1. DEPARTMENT SELECTION PHASE	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Kanban EV — Rulebook (corpus doc 287)	Example 2: · END OF THE MEETING	p.21	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 74 ms · first delta 2480 ms · total 19472 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 13792 ms · retrieval 74 ms · ask 5604 ms · gateway work 5680 ms · total 19472 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2705
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 437
tok/sec: 138.3 tok/sec — 437 output tokens in 3.159 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 56s 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: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 216), 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.