Ruling — Finca — RuleSage

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How do I setup the game?

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1. Place the game board on the table.[1]

2. Shuffle the 12 windmill blades face-down and randomly place them face-up on the spaces of the windmill.[1]

3. Each player chooses a color and takes a number of farmer tokens in their color depending on the number of players: 2 players: 5 farmers; 3 players: 4 farmers; 4/5 players: 3 farmers.[1]

4. Place a number of donkey cart cards in a stack near the windmill depending on the number of players: 2 players: 4 donkey carts; 3 players: 6 donkey carts; 4 players: 8 donkey carts; 5 players: 10 donkey carts.[1]

5. Shuffle the 42 request tiles face-down, then separate them into 10 stacks of 4 each.[2]

6. Place one stack in each community and turn the top-most tile face-up.[2]

7. Place the 2 remaining tiles face-down in the box without looking at them.[2]

8. If playing with 2 or 3 players, remove the following amounts of food tokens from the game: 2 players: Remove 9 of each type; 3 players: Remove 4 of each type.[2]

9. Randomly place 1 finca tile on the estate illustration in each of the 10 regions.[2]

10. Place a number of wooden finca tokens next to the game board depending on the number of players: 2 players: 4 fincas; 3 players: 5 fincas; 4 players: 6 fincas; 5 players: 7 fincas.[2]

11. Sort the 108 food tokens by type and place them as a general supply next to the game board.[2]

12. During setup, each player takes the 4 action tiles in their player color and places them in their play area.[3]

13. During setup, place the 5 bonus tiles face-up in ascending order in a stack beside the game board, with the 3 on the bottom and the 7 on top.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook · p.3 · www.pandasaurusgames.com

[3] RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook · p.8 · Action Tiles

[4] RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook · p.8 · Game End · Advanced Game - Mini Expansions · Bonus Tiles

That settles it — whose turn was it?

🔧 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 175 ms · ask 5501 ms · total 5678 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5678 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 827}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "www.pandasaurusgames.com", "sharpsignalDocId": 827}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Action Tiles", "sharpsignalDocId": 827}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Game End · Advanced Game - Mini Expansions · Bonus Tiles", "sharpsignalDocId": 827}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 827 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 827 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 0.87109 of 1311 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 08:53 UTC

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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Game End · Advanced Game - Mini Expansions · Bonus Tiles	p.8	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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Action Tiles	p.8	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
#3	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Goal · Beginning the Game · Playing the Game · Move a Farmer	p.4	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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Collecting Donkey Cart Cards · Running Out of Food or Donkey Carts	p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Make a Delivery	p.6	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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Collecting Food Tokens	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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)		p.2	0.029958 (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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	www.pandasaurusgames.com	p.3	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 13 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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Action Tiles	p.8	#2	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Goal · Beginning the Game · Playing the Game · Move a Farmer	p.4	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Game End · Advanced Game - Mini Expansions · Bonus Tiles	p.8	#1	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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Collecting Food Tokens	p.4	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)		p.6	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Make a Delivery	p.6	#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
#7	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)		p.2	#7	0.029958 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	www.pandasaurusgames.com	p.3	#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))	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 Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	www.pandasaurusgames.com	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Action Tiles	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Finca — Rulebook (corpus doc 827)	Game End · Advanced Game - Mini Expansions · Bonus Tiles	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 175 ms · first delta 2175 ms · total 5678 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 175 ms · ask 5501 ms · gateway work 5678 ms · total 5678 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3083
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 465
tok/sec: 134.4 tok/sec — 465 output tokens in 3.461 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 7s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 762), 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.