Ruling — Dream Home

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How do I play?

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The game is played over 12 rounds.[1][2] The sequence of play is as follows:

1. The player with the first player marker takes the first turn, and play proceeds clockwise.[1]

2. During a player's turn, the player may, before choosing a column, discard the Concrete Mixer tool to switch the places of two room cards on the game board.[3]

3. The player chooses a column on the game board and takes the pair of cards in that column (one room and one resource).[1]

4. If the leftmost column is chosen, the player takes the card in the bottom space and the first player marker.[1]

5. The player immediately places the chosen room card onto their home board.[1]

* Normal and unique room cards are placed on any of the ten spaces on the top two floors of the home board.[1]

* Basement cards must be placed on one of the two spaces on the bottom floor of the home board.[1]

* A room card cannot be placed if there is an empty space directly below it.[4]

* When expanding a room, the player cannot exceed the maximum size specified on the room card.[4]

* If a player cannot or does not want to place a particular room card, they may place it facedown on an empty space of their home board, creating an empty room.[4]

* Scaffolding can be placed on an empty space that does not have an empty space below it, but it must be replaced with a room card before the end of the game.[3]

6. When taking a décor card from the game board, the player places its corresponding token on a room that matches the indicated room type and does not already have a décor token, then discards the card.[5]

7. If no one chooses the leftmost column, the current first player keeps the first player marker and takes the first turn next round.[1]

8. After each player has taken a turn, the cards on the board are reset by discarding any cards still on the board and refilling each row (4 resource cards on the top row and 5 room cards on the bottom row).[1]

9. The game ends when the decks are empty.[1]

10. At the end of the game, players add up their points to determine the winner.[1]

* The player with the most points wins.[1]

* In the event of a tie, tied players search their home for kids depicted in their rooms' artwork; the player with the most kids wins.[5]

* If a tie persists, the tied players share the victory.[5]

11. Before scoring, certain helper cards may be used:

* The Roofer allows a player to select one discarded roof card and add it to their stack of roof cards.[6]

* The Supplier allows a player to exchange one room card on their home board with one room card from the discard pile.[6]

* The Architect allows a player to score 1 additional point for home functionality and 1 point for each empty room on their home board.[6]

* The Handyman allows a player to switch the places of any two room cards on their home board.[6]

[1] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.4 · PLAYING THE GAME

[2] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.2

[3] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.14 · Tools

[4] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.6 · PLACING ROOM CARDS

[5] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.11 · Points for Roof · Winning the Game · Décor

[6] RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook · p.12 · Helpers

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🔧 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 198 ms · ask 4558 ms · total 4758 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4758 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLAYING THE GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Tools", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "PLACING ROOM CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Points for Roof · Winning the Game · Décor", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Helpers", "sharpsignalDocId": 1145}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1145 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1145 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 0.92651 of 2286 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 15:27 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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	SETUP	p.3	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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)		p.3	0.047619 (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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Helpers · Tools	p.13	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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Different types of resource cards each have their own specific rules: · Rule Changes for 2-3 Players	p.5	0.045037 (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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Tools	p.14	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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Helpers	p.12	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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Points for Roof · Winning the Game · Décor	p.11	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 18 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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)		p.3	#3	0.047619 (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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.4	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Points for Roof · Winning the Game · Décor	p.11	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)		p.2	#12	0.013889 (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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Helpers	p.12	#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
#6	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	PLACING ROOM CARDS	p.6	#9	0.014493 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Tools	p.14	#6	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
#8	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	SETUP	p.3	#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 Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	PLAYING THE GAME	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Tools	p.14	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	PLACING ROOM CARDS	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Points for Roof · Winning the Game · Décor	p.11	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Dream Home — Rulebook (corpus doc 1145)	Helpers	p.12	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 198 ms · first delta 1233 ms · total 4758 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 198 ms · ask 4558 ms · gateway work 4758 ms · total 4758 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2941
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 693
tok/sec: 201.5 tok/sec — 693 output tokens in 3.439 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 22h, checked 4s 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: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1075), 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.