You asked
How do I setup the game?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: 18Chesapeakebg-253608-en-1e
The table has its answer — dice up.
🔧 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 228 ms · ask 2731 ms · total 2965 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 2965 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 3, "score": 0.04866, "snippet": "Lay the map board and stock market open on the table near the players. Place the share certificates and trains on the indicated board spaces. Each pile of share certificates should be arranged with the president's certificate on top. Place the money, sorted by denomination, and the track tiles, sort", "headingPath": "3. setting up the game · 4. overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.046898, "snippet": "The following rules for a two-player variant are provided for players to become familiar with the game concepts. The game is best with more players. Set up the game as in the multiplayer game. Each player receives $1,200 from the bank. The president's certificate that is associated with P6 Cornelius", "headingPath": "14. two-player variant · 14.1 setup · 14.2 additional rules for company floatation · 14.3 additional rules for non-president purchases · 14.4 additional rule for ending the stock round", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.046544, "snippet": "The game end is triggered in one of two ways. The first is when the bank runs out of money ('bank breaks'). If this happens during an operating round, complete the current set of operating rounds and end the game. If the bank breaks during a stock round, complete the stock round and complete one set", "headingPath": "12. ending the game · 13. etiquette", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.046154, "snippet": "1 18 18 rules of play table of contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1 Introduction to These Rules 2 1.2 18xx Overview 2 1.3 18Chesapeake Overview 2 2. Game Components 2 3. Setting Up The Game 3 4. Overview 3 5. The Map 3 6. The Stock Market 4 7. Corporate Entities 4 7.1 Private Companies 4 7.2 Public Compan", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.045743, "snippet": "Stock must always be purchased from the bank, either from the IPO shares or the bank pool. Payment is always made to the bank. A player may either start a new company by buying the president's certificate or buy a 10% share of a company. The president's certificate is a 20% share--or 30% in a two-pl", "headingPath": "10.4 buying stock", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.043461, "snippet": "A stock round consists of a series of turns, starting with the first player (the holder of the priority deal card) and proceeding clockwise. The game begins with the auction of the private companies. On each turn thereafter, the player may: Sell any number of certificates subject to the constraints ", "headingPath": "10. stock rounds", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.042399, "snippet": "The private company auction takes place only at the start of the game. During this part of the game, the private company certificates are auctioned. Starting with the player with the priority deal card (first player) and proceeding clockwise, each player in turn takes one of the following actions: P", "headingPath": "9. private company auction", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030092, "snippet": "During game setup, select a random president's certificate and place it with this certificate (see Section 3, Setting Up the Game). The player purchasing this private company takes both the private company and the associated president's certificate of a public company. Upon purchase, the purchaser i", "headingPath": "P6 Cornelius Vanderbilt. · 7.2 public companies", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3. setting up the game · 4. overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 1289}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1289 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1289 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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 0.87175 of 1037 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Oct 9, 2026 14:45 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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 3. setting up the game · 4. overview | p.3 | 0.04866 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 14. two-player variant · 14.1 setup · 14.2 additional rules for company floatation · 14.3 additional rules for non-president purchases · 14.4 additional rule for ending the stock round | p.14 | 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 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 12. ending the game · 13. etiquette | p.13 | 0.046544 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | p.1 | 0.046154 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 10.4 buying stock | p.8 | 0.045743 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 10. stock rounds | p.7 | 0.043461 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 9. private company auction | p.7 | 0.042399 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | P6 Cornelius Vanderbilt. · 7.2 public companies | p.5 | 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 37 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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 3. setting up the game · 4. overview | p.3 | #1 | 0.04866 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | table of contents | p.1 | #10 | 0.02971 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | p.1 | #4 | 0.046154 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 10. stock rounds | p.7 | #6 | 0.043461 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 9. private company auction | p.7 | #7 | 0.042399 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 12. ending the game · 13. etiquette | p.13 | #3 | 0.046544 (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 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 14. two-player variant · 14.1 setup · 14.2 additional rules for company floatation · 14.3 additional rules for non-president purchases · 14.4 additional rule for ending the stock round | p.14 | #2 | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | P6 Cornelius Vanderbilt. · 7.2 public companies | p.5 | #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 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK 18Chesapeake — Rulebook (corpus doc 1289) | 3. setting up the game · 4. overview | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 228 ms · first delta 1274 ms · total 2965 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 228 ms · ask 2731 ms · gateway work 2965 ms · total 2965 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 3756
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 322
- tok/sec
- 201.1 tok/sec — 322 output tokens in 1.601 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
- answerer host (measured by rulesage)
- reachable (for 2h, checked 9s 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)
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setup
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1219), 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.