Ruling — Galileo Galilei

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How do I setup the game?

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Player Setup

1. Take one Player Board and telescope, and place it in front of you.[1]

2. At the start of the game, ensure the telescope is pointing at the upper of the two crossed-out spaces.[1]

3. Each player chooses an astronomer.[1]

4. Place the Character Board to the left of your Player Board.[1]

5. For the first few games, play with the quadrant symbol side facing up.[1]

6. Take one die of each color (red, blue, and yellow) and place them in the upper left corner of your Player Board, with each die beginning at 1.[1]

7. Take a set of six Action tiles and randomly place them on your Player Board's starry sky with the light side facing up.[1]

8. Place your four Book tokens on the starting spaces to the right of your library.[1]

9. Place your seven Comet tokens on your comets spaces, with the 1 side facing up.[1]

10. Place your seven Constellation tokens on the constellation spaces.[1]

11. Place your four Objective tokens near your Character Board.[1]

Game Board and Deck Setup

1. Place the Game Board in the middle of the table.[2]

2. Place each player's Score token on the 0 space on the score track.[3][2]

3. Prepare a deck of Discovery cards by selecting at random cards from all three tiers based on the numbers in the provided table.[3][2]

4. Create the deck by placing the Tier III cards face-down on the bottom, followed by the Tier II cards, and then the Tier I cards on top.[3][2]

5. Place this deck next to the game board.[3][2]

6. Flip over and place the top six Tier I cards onto the game board.[3][2]

7. Place at random four University Scale tiles in the university, and four Subject tiles above them (arch side up).[3][2]

8. Use the remaining two Subject tiles to cover the (?) spaces at the top of the university (niche side up).[3][2]

9. Place each player's University token on the stairs beneath each University Scale tile.[3][2]

10. Place each player's Tribunal token on the Reputation track, where all astronomers begin at (-3) Reputation.[3][2]

11. Create a supply of quadrants, dice, and inquisitors next to the Game Board.[3][2]

Determining Turn Order

1. The player who observed the starry sky most recently gets the First player token and goes first.[3][2]

[1] RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook · p.3 · Player Setup · Introduction

[2] RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook · p.2 · Components · Game Setup

[3] RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook · p.2

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 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 231 ms · ask 3965 ms · total 4201 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4201 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 819 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 819 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 0.87822 of 1823 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 6, 2026 15:14 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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Player Setup · Introduction	p.3	0.048412 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Components · Game Setup	p.2	0.048387 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Solo Game · Setup	p.9	0.048139 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)		p.2	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
#5	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)		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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Gameplay · Conditions on Tycho's Action Tiles	p.9	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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	SPOT A COMET · Moving actions	p.5	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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Deck Setup	p.2	0.029877 (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 36 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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Player Setup · Introduction	p.3	#1	0.048412 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Solo Game · Setup	p.9	#3	0.048139 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)		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
#4	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	End of game · Final scoring · UNIVERSITY · INQUISITION · Ties · 100+	p.7	#18	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
#5	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Movement phase examples	p.3	#16	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
#6	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)		p.2	#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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Deck Setup	p.2	#8	0.029877 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Components · Game Setup	p.2	#2	0.048387 (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 Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Player Setup · Introduction	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)	Components · Game Setup	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Galileo Galilei — Rulebook (corpus doc 819)		p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 231 ms · first delta 1199 ms · total 4201 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 231 ms · ask 3965 ms · gateway work 4201 ms · total 4201 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3183
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 588
tok/sec: 201.9 tok/sec — 588 output tokens in 2.913 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 2h, checked 2s 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 754), 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.