Ruling — When I Dream

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How do I play?

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When I Dream is played over a series of rounds equal to the number of players.[1] The game ends when all players have been the Dreamer once.[2]

Setup

1. Place the board in the center of the table.[1]

2. Place the bed in the center of the board.[1]

3. Shuffle the double-sided Dream Cards thoroughly and place them on the Bed, then use the Headboard to cover one of the two Elements.[1]

4. Place the sand timer and Point tokens within reach of all players.[1]

5. Take the corresponding Dream Spirit cards based on the number of players and leave the rest in the box.[1]

6. The oldest player becomes the Dreamer for the first round, takes the sleep mask, and places it in front of themselves.[1]

The Night Phase

1. The Dreamer shuffles the Dream Spirit cards and deals one to each player beside themselves, which players look at without revealing to others.[3]

2. The Dreamer covers their eyes with the sleep mask.[3]

3. The top Dream card is placed at the bottom of the deck (rotated or flipped) to reveal the next Element.[3]

4. The sand timer is flipped.[3]

5. Starting with the player to the left of the Dreamer and moving clockwise, each player gives a single-word clue to describe the Element.[3]

6. Players cannot give clues derived from the Element, clues that sound similar, or translations of the Element into another language.[3]

7. The Dreamer can interrupt at any point to give one, and only one, guess.[3]

8. If the Dreamer is correct, the card is placed on the Yellow side of the board; if incorrect, it is placed on the Blue side.[3]

9. Players resume taking turns with the newly revealed Dream card.[3]

10. If the Dreamer is confused, they can skip a card by saying "Pass," placing it on the Blue side.[3]

11. If a player cannot find a clue or takes more than 5 seconds, they skip their turn.[3]

12. If a player gives an improper clue, the current Dream card is placed in front of them as a penalty.[3]

13. When the two minutes are over, the Dreamer may give one last answer.[3]

The Day Phase

1. Before removing the sleep mask, the Dreamer recounts their dream, attempting to mention all Elements they guessed during the night.[4]

2. The Dreamer removes the sleep mask.[4]

3. As the Dreamer mentions the cards, other players may slightly rotate the Dream cards to assist with scoring.[4]

4. Players reveal their Dream Spirit cards and score points as follows:

* Fairies: 1 point for each Dream card on the Yellow side.[4]

* Boogeymen: 1 point for each Dream card on the Blue side.[4]

* The Dreamer: 1 point for each Dream card on the Yellow side, plus 2 extra points if they mentioned all Elements placed on the Yellow side.[4]

* Sandmen: 1 point for each card on the Yellow side plus 2 extra points if the number of cards on each side is the same; if there is a one-card difference, they score points equal to the greater number; if there is a difference of two or more, they score points equal to the smaller number.[4]

5. Remove all Dream cards from the board and place them at the bottom of the deck (rotated/flipped).[4]

6. The player to the left of the Dreamer becomes the next round's Dreamer, taking the sleep mask and all Dream Spirit cards.[4]

Ending the Game

1. When all players have been the Dreamer once, the game ends.[2]

2. Each player counts their points, subtracting one point for each penalty held.[2]

3. The player with the most points wins (in case of a tie, the player with the fewest penalties wins; if still tied, players share the victory).[2]

[1] RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook · p.1 · Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup

[2] RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook · p.4 · Credits · Game End

[3] RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook · p.2 · 1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:

[4] RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook · p.3 · 1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End

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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 81 ms · ask 5299 ms · total 27621 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 22239 ms · generation 5382 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 1, "score": 0.048652, "snippet": "Night has fallen and you fall asleep peacefully. It's the perfect occasion for dream spirits to visit you and influence your dream for better or worse… Listen to the voices of the Fairies, but beware of the Boogeymen and the Sandmen. At the break of dawn, will you remember your dream? When I Dream i", "headingPath": "Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.047875, "snippet": "Before removing the sleep mask, the Dreamer recounts their dream and tries to mention all the Elements they guessed during the night. As you recount the dream, feel free to dramatize your dream. Be inspired by your answers to create a dreamy, funny, zany story… For example: \u0007 'In my dream, I saw a R", "headingPath": "1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The Dreamer shuffles the Dream Spirit cards and deals one to each player beside themselves. Each player looks at their card without revealing it to the other players. The remaining card is placed facedown on the table and must not be revealed. Then, the Dreamer covers their eyes with the sleep mask.", "headingPath": "1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "The 'Sombrero-wearing Belgians' would like to thank Tanguy Greban and Anouk Mertens from Case Départ, the Association des Parents du Centre Scolaire Saint-Barthélémy, Hervé Marly, Bart Van Haver, Floriane Schroeder, Auguste Flores, and Timothée Lambry. The author would like to thank his family for i", "headingPath": "Credits · Game End", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Credits · Game End", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End", "sharpsignalDocId": 1138}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1138 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1138 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 0.90669 of 2872 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:04 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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup	p.1	0.048652 (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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End	p.3	0.047875 (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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:	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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Credits · Game End	p.4	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

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 4 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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup	p.1	#1	0.048652 (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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End	p.3	#2	0.047875 (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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Credits · Game End	p.4	#4	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 When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Overview · Contents · Object of the Game · Setup	p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	Credits · Game End	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Distribute the Roles · 2 - The Dream · Clarifications:	p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK When I Dream — Rulebook (corpus doc 1138)	1 - Recount the Dream · 2 - Count the Points · 3 - Round End	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 81 ms · first delta 927 ms · total 27621 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 22239 ms · retrieval 81 ms · ask 5299 ms · gateway work 5382 ms · total 27621 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2233
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 890
tok/sec: 202.3 tok/sec — 890 output tokens in 4.400 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 13s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 3s 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 1068), 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.