Ruling — Onirim (Second Edition)

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### Setup

1. Shuffle the 76 cards from the basic game (excluding expansion symbols) to create the deck.[1]

2. For solo or 2-player cooperative play, draw an opening hand of 5 cards.[1]

3. If any Door or Dream cards are drawn, set them aside and replace them with the top card of the deck until you have 5 Location cards in hand.[1]

4. Re-shuffle all cards set aside back into the deck.[1]

5. (For 2 players): Reveal the top 8 cards of the deck; set aside any Door or Dream cards into the Limbo pile and replace them with the top card of the deck until you have 8 Location cards, then re-shuffle the set-aside cards into the deck.[2]

6. (For 2 players): Each player takes one of the 8 revealed cards until each player has 3 Personal resources; the remaining 2 cards are Shared resources and remain face up.[2]

### Game Turn

A turn is divided into three phases:

**1. Play or discard a card**

1. Initiate (first round) or continue the Labyrinth row by playing one Location card from your hand face up in front of you, ensuring the previously played card remains partly visible.[1]

2. The card played may not have any symbol (Sun, Moon, or Key) in common with the last card played.[1]

3. If the card played is the third in a row of the same color, you obtain a Door card of that color by searching the deck, placing it in front of you, and shuffling the deck.[1][3]

4. Alternatively, you may choose to discard a card from your hand onto the discard pile.[4]

5. If the discarded card is a Moon or Sun card, proceed to phase 2.[4]

6. If the discarded card is a Key card, trigger a Prophecy (look at the top 5 cards of the deck, discard one, and put the remaining 4 back in any order) and then proceed to phase 2.[4]

7. (For 2 players): The active player may also choose to immediately swap a card from their Personal resources with a card from the Shared Resources.[2]

**2. Fill your hand**

1. Replenish your hand to five cards by drawing from the top of the deck.[4]

2. If the drawn card is a Location card, it replaces the card played or discarded.[4]

3. If the drawn card is a Door card, you may immediately discard a Key card of the same color from your hand to obtain the Door card; otherwise, place the Door card in the Limbo pile.[4]

4. If the drawn card is a Dream card (such as a Nightmare), resolve its effect immediately.[4][5]

5. To resolve a Nightmare card, choose one of four options: discard a Key card; place a gained Door card in the Limbo pile; reveal the top 5 cards and discard all except Door/Dream cards (which go to the Limbo pile); or discard your whole hand and draw a new hand of 5 Location cards using the initial setup method.[5]

6. If you have fewer than 5 cards after resolving a Dream card, continue to replenish your hand by drawing and resolving cards one after the other.[5]

**3. Shuffle the Limbo pile**

1. Shuffle all cards set aside in the Limbo pile back into the deck.[2]

2. If no cards were put in the Limbo pile this turn, skip this step.[2]

### End of the Game

* **Victory:** The game ends immediately when a player has all 8 Door cards on the table at the same time.[6][3][2] (Note: One source states victory is having 4 Door cards, one of each color,[6] but the primary objective and 2-player rules specify 8 Doors [3][2]).

* **Defeat:** You lose if the deck is exhausted before the 8 Door cards are obtained, or if you must draw a card to fill your hand and no cards remain in the deck.[3][2]

[1] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · A. Set up · The Limbo pile · B. Game turn · 1 - Play a card · Discovering a Door card

[2] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.6 · 3 - Shuffle the Limbo pile · C. End of the game · Defeat · A. Set up · Personal resources/Shared resources · B. Game turn Play a card · …

[3] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.3 · GAME OVERVIEW · Components: The basic game contains 76 cards

[4] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 · OR: Discard a card · 2 - Fill your hand

[5] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 · Resolve a Dream card

[6] RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.7 · C. End of the game · D. Ways of playing

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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debug row retained until: Nov 16, 2026 06:59

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.

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#1	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	C. End of the game · D. Ways of playing	p.7	0.048916 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	A. Set up · The Limbo pile · B. Game turn · 1 - Play a card · Discovering a Door card	p.4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	3 - Shuffle the Limbo pile · C. End of the game · Defeat · A. Set up · Personal resources/Shared resources · B. Game turn Play a card · …	p.6	0.048131 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	OR: Discard a card · 2 - Fill your hand	p.5	0.046402 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	GAME OVERVIEW · Components: The basic game contains 76 cards	p.3	0.045928 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	Important!	p.4	0.045235 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	Resolve a Dream card	p.5	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
#8	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)		p.1	0.029412 (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))	13

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 9 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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	C. End of the game · D. Ways of playing	p.7	#1	0.048916 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	A. Set up · The Limbo pile · B. Game turn · 1 - Play a card · Discovering a Door card	p.4	#2	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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	OR: Discard a card · 2 - Fill your hand	p.5	#4	0.046402 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	Important!	p.4	#6	0.045235 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)		p.1	#8	0.029412 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	Resolve a Dream card	p.5	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	GAME OVERVIEW · Components: The basic game contains 76 cards	p.3	#5	0.045928 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	3 - Shuffle the Limbo pile · C. End of the game · Defeat · A. Set up · Personal resources/Shared resources · B. Game turn Play a card · …	p.6	#3	0.048131 (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 Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	A. Set up · The Limbo pile · B. Game turn · 1 - Play a card · Discovering a Door card	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	3 - Shuffle the Limbo pile · C. End of the game · Defeat · A. Set up · Personal resources/Shared resources · B. Game turn Play a card · …	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	GAME OVERVIEW · Components: The basic game contains 76 cards	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	OR: Discard a card · 2 - Fill your hand	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	Resolve a Dream card	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Onirim (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 735)	C. End of the game · D. Ways of playing	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 86 ms · first delta 1473 ms · total 5845 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 86 ms · ask 5757 ms · gateway work 5845 ms · total 5845 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2635
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 898
tok/sec: 207.0 tok/sec — 898 output tokens in 4.338 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s ago)
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 669), 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.