Ruling — Evacuation

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How do I setup the game?

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**Standard Game Setup**

1. Each player chooses a color and takes the pieces in their color.[1]

2. Place your site tiles on the starting continent closest to you.[1]

3. Give each space a matching site tile, using the two remaining tiles for the two ocean spaces.[1]

4. Place 2 tokens from each player on the starting space of the progress track.[1]

5. Place a player board so its Old World and New World sides align with those sides of the main board.[1]

6. Keep other pieces next to the player board as shown.[1]

7. For technology tiles, mix up four tiles (numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4) face down, choose one at random, and take all tiles with that assigned number.[1]

8. Place these technology tiles on your board in the appropriate row, but randomly within that row, according to the dots in the upper right corner.[1]

9. Place one marker on the starting space of your action track.[1]

10. Place production markers on the track on the New World side of your board, all starting at 0.[1]

11. Place your color's starting stadium beside your board on the Old World side.[1]

12. Shuffle the stadium deck (excluding starting stadiums) and place it face down near its corner of the main board.[1]

13. Shuffle the spaceship tiles and place them face down near its edge of the main board.[1]

14. Deal 3 ships face up beside the board, as shown.[1]

15. Deal 3 cards face up beside the board, as shown.[1]

16. Separate infrastructure cards into two decks (I and II), shuffle each separately, and place deck I on top of deck II to create the infrastructure deck; place this face down near its corner of the main board.[1]

17. Place the year counter on the year one space of the main board.[1]

18. For year-end bonus cards, choose 1 random card marked with a flag and place it face up on the main board.[1]

19. From the cards with no flag, choose 3 at random and place them face up on top of the chosen card to provide one bonus card for each year.[1]

20. Return all remaining cards to the box.[1]

21. Place 1 token from each player on the order indicator in a random order.[2]

22. (Standard game only) Give each player a stack of action cards (approximately 8 per player) to use as markers.[3]

**Points Mode Setup**

1. Follow all standard setup steps.[4]

2. After randomly placing technology tiles, shuffle the deck of goal cards and deal 4 to each player.[4]

3. From your set of 4, choose 1 and pass the other 3 along.[4]

4. From the 3 cards you receive, choose 1 and pass the other 2 along.[4]

5. From the 2 cards you receive, choose 1 and pass the other along.[4]

6. Pass along and receive one last card.[4]

7. Discard one of the 4 cards to leave yourself with 3 goals.[4]

**Solo Game Setup**

1. Set up the turn-order indicator and progress track for a three-player game using your tokens, the opponent's tokens, and a third set of tokens.[5]

2. Start the game with your marker first on the turn-order indicator.[5]

3. If there are stadiums with 4 or 5 happy faces in the display, remove them to the bottom of the deck.[5]

4. Draft goal cards by dealing two piles of 4 cards; choose 1 to keep and randomly remove 1 from the opponent's pile, then switch piles and repeat the process for piles of 3, 2, and 1.[5]

5. From the 4 cards drafted, choose 3 to keep.[5]

6. Do not add the solo card with the red 3 to the solo deck until year 3.[5]

7. Shuffle the solo deck at the start of each year.[5]

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

[2] RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook · p.3 · STARTING THE GAME · RESOURCES

[3] RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook · p.4 · 2  ACTIONS · ACTION TRACK

[4] RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook · p.9 · POINTS MODE · Setup · End of Game · ADVANCED ACTION VARIANT

[5] RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook · p.10 · SOLO GAME · Turn-Order Competition · Choosing Goal cards · Special card

Rule found, game on.

🔧 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 107 ms · ask 6604 ms · total 6714 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6714 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "RULEBOOK · SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 765}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STARTING THE GAME · RESOURCES", "sharpsignalDocId": 765}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "2  ACTIONS · ACTION TRACK", "sharpsignalDocId": 765}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "POINTS MODE · Setup · End of Game · ADVANCED ACTION VARIANT", "sharpsignalDocId": 765}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SOLO GAME · Turn-Order Competition · Choosing Goal cards · Special card", "sharpsignalDocId": 765}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 765 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 765 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 0.88312 of 2755 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 27, 2026 19:36 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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	POINTS MODE · Setup · End of Game · ADVANCED ACTION VARIANT	p.9	0.046898 (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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	Infrastructure Moves · Technologies	p.4	0.045002 (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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	RULEBOOK · SETUP	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
#4	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	STARTING THE GAME · RESOURCES	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
#5	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	ACTIONS	p.5	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
#6	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	Settling	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
#7	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	1  INCOME	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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	SOLO GAME · Turn-Order Competition · Choosing Goal cards · Special card	p.10	0.030092 (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 29 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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	RULEBOOK · SETUP	p.2	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	Setup · Action Phase · If a card is divided into 2 parts, you may use them in either order; · Power Level · Cleanup	p.9	#11	0.028992 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	STARTING THE GAME · RESOURCES	p.3	#4	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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	SOLO GAME · Turn-Order Competition · Choosing Goal cards · Special card	p.10	#8	0.030092 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	NEW INFRASTRUCTURE, SPACESHIPS, AND STADIUMS	p.5	#12	0.028814 (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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	1  INCOME	p.3	#7	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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	2  ACTIONS · ACTION TRACK	p.4	#14	0.027971 (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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	POINTS MODE · Setup · End of Game · ADVANCED ACTION VARIANT	p.9	#1	0.046898 (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 Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	RULEBOOK · SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	STARTING THE GAME · RESOURCES	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	2  ACTIONS · ACTION TRACK	p.4	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	POINTS MODE · Setup · End of Game · ADVANCED ACTION VARIANT	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Evacuation — Rulebook (corpus doc 765)	SOLO GAME · Turn-Order Competition · Choosing Goal cards · Special card	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 107 ms · first delta 2039 ms · total 6714 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 107 ms · ask 6604 ms · gateway work 6714 ms · total 6714 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3887
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 917
tok/sec: 200.8 tok/sec — 917 output tokens in 4.567 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 54s 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 0s 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 699), 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.