Ruling — Floriferous

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How do I setup the game?

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4-Player Setup

1. Shuffle the 60 Garden Cards and the 21 Desire Cards into two decks and then set up the Garden.[1]

2. In a 4-player game, the Garden is made of 4 rows of Garden Cards followed by 1 row of Desire Cards, with each row including 5 cards.[2][1]

3. For the first row, deal the 2nd and 4th cards face-down.[2][1]

4. Place the remaining Garden Cards and Desire Cards in separate decks to the side of the Garden.[2][1]

5. Place Stones on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th cards in row 3, and on all the cards in the 4th row.[2][1]

6. Place the remaining Stones off to the side in a supply.[2][1]

7. Randomly pick 3 Bounty Cards, place them face-up above the Garden, and return the remaining cards to the box.[2][1]

8. Place the Cup of Tea next to the Bounty Cards.[2][1]

9. Each player takes a Gardener Pawn and 3 Flower Tokens in a matching color.[2][1]

10. Randomly choose a starting player, who places their pawn to the left of the topmost row of the Garden Cards.[2][1]

11. Going clockwise from the starting player, each player places their pawn to the left of the next row of Garden Cards, such that all rows, but the last, will have a pawn in front of it.[2][1]

2-Player and 3-Player Setup

1. For 3 players, set up the game as shown for 4 players, but do not deal out row 2.[3]

2. For 2 players, set up the game as shown for 4 players, but do not deal out rows 2 and 4.[3]

3. For a longer 2-player game, set up seven columns; the 6th column is set up like the 4th, and the 7th is set up like the 5th.[3]

Solo Setup

1. Before setting up the garden, remove the 5 Sculpture Cards from the Garden Deck and return them to the game box.[4][5]

2. Choose a Gardener Pawn to use and return the three other Gardener Pawns to the game box.[4][5]

3. Find the Crow Action Cards, shuffle them, and place the Crow Actions Deck face-down near the side of the garden.[4][5]

4. Find the Crow Card and place it near the Crow Actions Deck.[5]

5. Place the Cup of Tea near the player.[5]

6. Players may choose to use the 2-player extended setup, if desired.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook · p.3 · OBJECTIVE · GAME SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook · p.20

[4] RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook · p.14 · SOLO OBJECTIVE · SOLO SETUP

[5] RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook · p.15

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 218 ms · ask 3944 ms · total 4167 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4167 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OBJECTIVE · GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1113}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1113}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1113}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SOLO OBJECTIVE · SOLO SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1113}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1113}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1113 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1113 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 0.85594 of 1666 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Oct 8, 2026 17:38 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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.20	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.15	0.04741 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	OBJECTIVE · GAME SETUP	p.3	0.046394 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.3	0.045956 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	SOLO SETUP EXAMPLE	p.15	0.045831 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	SOLO OBJECTIVE · SOLO SETUP	p.14	0.045688 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.9	0.044776 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.2	0.029828 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.20	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	SOLO SETUP EXAMPLE	p.15	#5	0.045831 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	SOLO OBJECTIVE · SOLO SETUP	p.14	#6	0.045688 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.15	#2	0.04741 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.3	#4	0.045956 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.2	#11	0.02837 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.9	#7	0.044776 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	OBJECTIVE · GAME SETUP	p.3	#3	0.046394 (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 Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	OBJECTIVE · GAME SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.20	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)	SOLO OBJECTIVE · SOLO SETUP	p.14	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Floriferous — Rulebook (corpus doc 1113)		p.15	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 218 ms · first delta 1028 ms · total 4167 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 218 ms · ask 3944 ms · gateway work 4167 ms · total 4167 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2385
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 626
tok/sec: 203.0 tok/sec — 626 output tokens in 3.084 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 44s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 2h, checked 8s 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 1043), 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.