Onirim (Second Edition) FAQ
110 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Game Overview
- Where does a Door go when you draw it and have no matching Key?
- Do you win as soon as you hold all eight Doors, even if you could not refill your hand?
- Do Doors in the Limbo pile count as in play for winning?
- Are the Limbo pile and the discard pile the same area?
- Must you shuffle the Limbo pile at the end of the turn even if it holds only Doors you have no Key for?
- Do you lose if the draw pile runs out while the Limbo pile still has to be shuffled?
- When I have fewer than five cards, do I refill one card at a time and resolve each before drawing the next?
- If a Location you draw matches the symbol of the last card in your row, does it go to Limbo?
- If every card in your hand has a symbol you cannot play, can you still take a turn?
- Are you allowed to look through the discard pile?
- Can you count the remaining cards of each type in the draw pile when searching for a Door?
- How many Door cards are in the base game?
- When you add expansions, do the base-game actions and abilities still apply?
Rules for 1 Player
- Can you play the same symbol twice in a row, or reuse a completed set of three cards to make another set?
- After three cards of one colour complete a set, must you search the deck for a Door, and in what order do the search, the refill and the Limbo shuffle happen?
- If no Door of that colour is left in the deck, do you still search and shuffle when you complete a set?
- After completing three of a colour, can you take a matching Door from the Limbo pile instead of searching the deck?
- Can a Key drawn while refilling open a matching Door you drew just before it?
- After you discard your whole hand to resolve a Nightmare, how is the new hand drawn?
- If you draw a Nightmare while refilling one card at a time, do you resolve it at once, and what about a second one?
- When a Nightmare has you reveal and discard the top five cards, what happens to Doors and Dream cards among them?
- Can you put a Door you already opened into Limbo to resolve a Nightmare, and does that affect another Door of the same colour?
- Can you resolve a Nightmare by discarding five cards from the deck when fewer than five remain?
- Can you discard a Nightmare to satisfy a Prophecy's discard, and does it go back into the deck?
- Can you discard a Door to satisfy a Prophecy, and do you lose if all five revealed cards are Doors?
- When you discard a Door during a Prophecy, does it go to Limbo or to the discard pile?
- Does discarding a Key to open a Door, or a Key revealed by a Prophecy, trigger another Prophecy?
Rules for 2 Players
- In two-player, can you swap a card in your hand with a shared resource without discarding?
- Can you play cards from the shared resource pile in two-player?
- In two-player, can you use your partner's personal Key to open a Door you drew on your turn?
- In two-player, when the draw pile runs out, is the discard pile reshuffled?
- In two-player, what happens when one player gets their fourth Door?
- In two-player, do Nightmares trigger, or can Keys open Doors, while the shared resources refill after a Nightmare discard?
Dreamcatchers
- Is triggering a Freeing mandatory when you search or shuffle the deck?
- Do you trigger a Freeing when you search the deck for a Door and then shuffle, even if none is there?
- After a failed search, can you take the Door from one Dreamcatcher and trigger a Freeing on another?
- Does a Freeing trigger when a Door drawn during the refill forces a reshuffle?
- When refilling your hand, can you open a Dreamcatcher's Door instead of the Door you drew from the deck?
- Does the Dreamcatcher Limbo rule still apply after every Lost Dream has been found?
- How many Lost Dream cards are in the game?
- When you draw a Lost Dream, do you resolve it the way you resolve a Nightmare?
- When a Prophecy or Incantation reveals a Lost Dream, does it go to Limbo?
- Can Lost Dreams be permanently secured in a Dreamcatcher?
- Can you win with Nightmares caught in Dreamcatchers alongside the Lost Dreams?
- When you discard your hand for a Nightmare while Limbo already holds cards, do the new Limbo cards join the same Dreamcatcher?
- When a fifth card overloads the Dreamcatchers, which cards go back into the deck?
- In Dreamcatchers, if you can't refill to five because the deck is empty, can you still win by catching everything?
- If the draw pile runs out while you refill and the last Lost Dream is in Limbo, do you lose?
Towers
- In two-player with the Towers expansion, is there one shared Tower row or one per player?
- Can a Tower with no symbols on an edge be placed next to a Tower that has symbols?
- Can you rearrange Tower cards on the table to fix an alignment?
- With Towers, must you use the False Destruction alternative after a Nightmare when no Towers are placed?
- After resolving a Nightmare, must you discard a placed Tower, or can you put the Nightmare into Limbo instead?
- Does discarding a placed Tower to pay for a Nightmare trigger that Tower's rearrange ability?
- After a Nightmare, if you discard your hand, are Towers in your hand discarded too?
- If a Prophecy makes you discard a Nightmare, do you also discard a placed Tower?
- Can a Tower go under a Mirror, and do Tower symbols or colours count for Mirrors or the Sphinx?
Glyphs
- In two-player with the Glyphs, must each player hold a base-colour Door, and how are the extra Doors split?
- Do the round Door cards from the Glyphs count as Doors for an Incantation?
- How many Doors must you collect with the Glyphs, and how many with the Book of Steps?
- Can you perform an Incantation or Glyph reveal when the draw pile has fewer than five cards?
- With Glyphs, which card ends up at the very bottom after an Incantation or Glyph puts cards back in a chosen order?
The Book of Steps Lost and Found
- With Book of Steps and Glyphs, can an Incantation or Glyph reveal a Door out of goal order?
- Can you cast a Book of Steps spell in the middle of refilling your hand?
- Can you cast a Spell after drawing a Door but before discarding a matching Key to open it?
- Can Spells and Denizens be used at any time, including between drawing a card and resolving it?
- Can you cast Parallel Planning after a Key opened a Door, and can you swap Goal cards that are not face up?
- With Book of Steps, can Parallel Planning let you keep a Door of the wrong colour?
- Can Nightmares in the discard pile be removed from the game to pay for Book of Steps spells?
- Can you cast a Spell that reveals five cards when fewer than five remain in the deck?
- With Book of Steps and Dreamcatchers, can you search the deck for a wrong-colour Door and place it in a Dreamcatcher?
- With Book of Steps, when a Dark Premonition returns a Door you already obtained to Limbo, what happens to its Goal card?
Door to the Oniverse
- Does a Rainbow Door count toward a Dark Premonition condition that names a colour?
- In two-player games, can either player open the Rainbow Door?
- Can a rallied Denizen be used at any time, including to interrupt an action?
- Can you activate a rallied Denizen before you refill your hand?
- While refilling your hand, can you use a Denizen's ability between individual draws?
- Can you use a Denizen's ability in the middle of resolving a Nightmare?
- Are Denizens part of your hand?
- How many copies of each Denizen, such as the Architect, are in the Door to the Oniverse set?
- Can Chromatic Chaos unlock a Door of a colour other than your Key's colour?
- Does Chromatic Chaos permanently change a Door's colour?
- If the first location the Little Incubus reveals is a Dead End, what happens?
- Can you use the Little Incubus at any time, or only instead of your normal turn?
- Can the Cyclobot trade a Dead End from your hand for a card in your discard pile?
- In co-op, are Denizens shared, and can the non-rallying player use them on the partner's turn?
Crossroads and Dead Ends
- Can you play two Crossroads cards in one set of three to open a Door?
- Does a Crossroads card take a colour of its own, or count as two colours at once?
- Can a Crossroads card that ends one colour sequence start a sequence of another colour?
- With the Crossroads intersections variant, can you start a new series of another colour while an incomplete series of the same colour is in the row?
- Can you discard a Dead End with a Prophecy or Happy Dream effect?
- After an Escape, how is the new hand of five cards drawn?
- Do Dead Ends stay in your hand, or go to Limbo, when you draw an opening or refilled hand?
- Is there a maximum hand size, and do Dead Ends count against it?
- If a Dead End is sent to Limbo and then caught by a Dreamcatcher, does it stay there?
Happy Dreams and Dark Premonitions
- After a Dark Premonition removes cards from the deck, does the reshuffle allow a Freeing?
- Does a Dark Premonition that discards all Happy Dreams from the deck also discard Happy Dreams caught on a Dreamcatcher?
- If a Dark Premonition makes you add a Nightmare from the discard pile but there are none there, what happens?
- Does the Dark Premonition that discards all remaining red Location cards also discard red cards in your hand?
- With Glyphs and Happy Dreams and Dark Premonitions, do you still discard a colour's Location cards when two Doors of that colour are out?
- With Glyphs, if Dark Premonitions remove all red cards after two red Doors are found, how do you get the third red Door?
- When a Dark Premonition says to take two Keys from the deck and discard them, which Keys do you discard?
- In co-op, when a Dark Premonition makes you discard your hand, are shared resources and the inactive player's private cards discarded?
- After a Prophecy or Happy Dream reorders the top cards, does a shuffle caused by a Door also shuffle those cards?
Promo cards
- Does failing a Sphinx affect your Tower row, and does a Diver count as a Nightmare when you fail it?
- When a Sphinx reveals matching cards, must the card you put on top of the deck match the named category?
- How do you use a Repentant Treasure Keeper to store a card, and when is the Keeper discarded?
- Does the Incubus figure have any gameplay function?
- What does 'put a Door of your choice into play' mean for a Mirror effect?
- In co-op, when the active player explores a Mirror and gets a Door, can the partner take it?