End and Final Scoring

When Ada’s Dream ends and the eleven final scoring steps, with completed-line examples and tie-breaks.

End of the game

The end is triggered when a player places their 9th die in the Mill. Play continues until everyone has had the same number of turns — the player to the right of the first player takes the last turn. Then everyone scores. A game is almost always 18 turns each; drafting extra dice can stretch it only if no one places a 9th die.

Final scoring

Score each line of the scorepad in order:

1. Objectives — the on every Objective space holding your disc.
2. Travel — the value of each University where you have any disc (once per University), plus 2 for every disc stacked on top of each of your discs there.
3. Lectures — each Institution level row scores for the player with the most discs in it (8 / 6 / 4 / 2 / 2 for levels 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2); tied players each score half.
4. Meetings — hand out the Science Scoring tokens (rules); each token scores its value for each Partner card of that Science in your supply.
5. Partner cards — the Prestige printed on all eight cards in your supply, including any negative values.
6. Programs — each Program whose line holds 3 dice meeting its condition scores its value; otherwise nothing.
7. Completed lines — see below; each line is capped by your Steam.
8. Gears — lose 2 for each Gear fewer than 12 that you built (a covered disc does not help).
9. Innovation — 2 if your marker ends on 5, 4 on 6.
10. Assignment Scoring tokens — each token’s value × the Assignments in that colour’s column.
11. Leftover resources — 1 per Book, plus 1 for every 10 in any mix of £, Coal and Brass.

The most Prestige wins and is chosen by Ada to finish the Analytical Engine. Tie-breaks: most Gears built, then the highest total of the dice in your Mill, then the tied player closest clockwise to the first player.

Completed lines

A row or column is complete when it holds 3 dice and 2 Gears. Work it out like Babbage’s machine — strictly left to right or top to bottom, never multiplication first — then cap the result at your Steam. A line can score below zero. In the rulebook example Anthony’s completed lines total 74; his other two columns are incomplete.