Ruling — Stella: Dixit Universe

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How do I play?

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### Setup

1. Assemble the two parts of the board and place it on the table.[1]

2. Shuffle all the Dixit Cards and place 3 lines of 5 cards next to the board.[1]

3. Make a draw pile with the remaining cards.[1]

4. Randomly select 4 word cards without looking at them and place face down next to the board as a draw pile.[1]

5. If playing your first game, sort the 4 Discovery Word Cards in ascending order (#1 on top) and place them next to the board.[1]

6. Place the Round Tokens on the appropriate spots, numbered side visible, in proper order from bottom to top.[1]

7. Each player takes a Personal Slate, a matching color felt-tip, and a cloth.[1]

8. Form a pile with the Lantern Tokens, face up (Light side), with one token per player of the matching color, and place this pile on the starting spot in the lower part of the board.[1]

9. Give the Scoring Slate to a player of your choice to track points; this player writes each player's name at the top of their color's column.[1]

10. Randomly determine the first player and give them the First Scout Pawn.[1]

### The Game Round

The game consists of 4 successive rounds.[2] Each round follows these steps:

**1. Associate**

1. The player with the First Scout Pawn reveals the first Word Card from the draw pile and reads the word at the top aloud; this is the Clue Word.[2]

2. Slide the Word Card under the board in the designated location so only the Clue Word is visible (alternatively, players may collectively decide to use the word printed upside down).[2]

3. Each player secretly indicates between 1 and 10 Dixit Cards on their Personal Slate that they associate with the Clue Word.[2][3]

4. Each player places their Lantern Token on the numbered spot of the Board matching the number of boxes they checked on their Personal Slate.[3]

5. If a player checks more boxes than any other player, they turn their Lantern Token to its Dark side.[3]

6. Players pass their felt-tip to the left neighbor to indicate they have finished selecting; once all players have passed the felt-tip, selection is over.[2]

**2. Announce and Reveal**

1. Starting with the First Scout and going clockwise, each player shows a Dixit Card they selected on their Personal Slate.[3]

2. The following situations may occur during the resolution:

* **The Spark:** At least 2 other players selected the card. The Scout and involved players fill 2 stars.[3]

* **The Super-Spark:** Only 1 other player selected the card. The Scout and the involved player fill 2 stars and 1 bonus star.[3]

* **The Fall:** No one else chose the card. The Scout fills 0 stars and can no longer fill stars or be a Scout for this round.[3]

3. After resolution, the player to the left of the current Scout becomes the new Scout, provided they have not fallen and have crosses left to confirm.[4][5] If the next player cannot be Scout, the role passes to the next eligible player.[4][5]

**3. Scoring**

1. Players tally their score for the round by counting the number of stars filled on their Personal Slate (including bonus stars).[6][4][3]

2. If a player is "in the Dark" (their token is on the Dark side), they must make no mistake to score normally; if they make a mistake, they score 1 point less for each Spark and Super-Spark by deleting one star from each matching box.[4]

3. The player with the Scoring Slate notes each player's score in their matching column.[6][4]

**4. End of Round**

1. Put the used Word Card back in the box.[7]

2. Pass the First Scout Pawn to the next player clockwise.[7]

3. Flip the Round Token of the current round.[7]

4. Replace the 5 Dixit Cards in the corresponding line with 5 new cards from the draw pile.[7]

5. Put the Round Token and the 5 discarded cards back in the box.[7]

6. Reset the Lantern Tokens to the Light side and place them back on the starting spot.[7]

7. Each player erases their Personal Slate.[7]

8. Prepare the next round.[6][5]

### End of the Game

At the end of the fourth round, each player calculates their total score by adding up points from all rounds.[7] The player(s) with the

[1] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.2 · GOAL OF THE GAME · Components

[2] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.3 · THE GAME ROUND · Associate

[3] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.8 · Customizable Word Cards · Associate · Announce · Reveal · This Step Ends: · Scoring · …

[4] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.6

[5] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.6 · The Spark · This Step Ends:

[6] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.6

[7] RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook · p.7 · This Step Ends: · Thanks · END OF THE GAME · Customizable Word Cards

The book has spoken.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 82 ms · ask 9808 ms · total 9892 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9892 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 798 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 798 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 0.89705 of 3322 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 23, 2026 17:47 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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	THE GAME ROUND · Associate	p.3	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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Customizable Word Cards · Associate · Announce · Reveal · This Step Ends: · Scoring · …	p.8	0.045724 (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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)		p.6	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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	This Step Ends: · Thanks · END OF THE GAME · Customizable Word Cards	p.7	0.031746 (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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Rules	p.1	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
#6	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	The Spark · This Step Ends:	p.6	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
#7	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	GOAL OF THE GAME · Components	p.2	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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Gérald Cattiaux · Jean-Louis Roubira	p.1	0.030018 (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 12 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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	THE GAME ROUND · Associate	p.3	#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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	GOAL OF THE GAME · Components	p.2	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)		p.6	#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
#4	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)		p.6	#10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Customizable Word Cards · Associate · Announce · Reveal · This Step Ends: · Scoring · …	p.8	#2	0.045724 (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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	The Spark · This Step Ends:	p.6	#6	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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Rules	p.1	#5	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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	This Step Ends: · Thanks · END OF THE GAME · Customizable Word Cards	p.7	#4	0.031746 (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 Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	GOAL OF THE GAME · Components	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	THE GAME ROUND · Associate	p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	Customizable Word Cards · Associate · Announce · Reveal · This Step Ends: · Scoring · …	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	The Spark · This Step Ends:	p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Stella: Dixit Universe — Rulebook (corpus doc 798)	This Step Ends: · Thanks · END OF THE GAME · Customizable Word Cards	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 82 ms · first delta 2194 ms · total 9892 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 82 ms · ask 9808 ms · gateway work 9892 ms · total 9892 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3141
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 1024
tok/sec: 134.1 tok/sec — 1024 output tokens in 7.634 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 1s 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 733), 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.