Many cards will also let you catch ZZZs, and if so, you place one of your ZZZ markers onto a Dream tile, and this may allow you to use that Dream Tile on a later turn. If you end your movement on a space with a Dream Tile, AND that Dream tile has one of you ZZZ markers on it, then you can use that Dream Tile. If you end your movement on a space with a Nightmare token, you become Scared and must resolve this before doing anything else. Many of these cards allow you move your sheep clockwise around the board. To start a turn, the player chooses a card from their hand and plays it. Then, starting with the player with the First Sheep Token, turns are taken in order. Continue until all Nightmare cards are resolved and each player has a hand of 2 Sheep cards. If you draw a Nightmare card, you must resolve it, and then draw a new card. In the Racing Phase, players start by drawing a hand of 2 cards. The game continues in this manner until someone’s head (scoring marker) reaches their pillow – thus signifying the end of the game. Games will be played in a number of rounds – each comprised of a Racing Phase and then a Resting phase.

Finally, the deck of playing cards is constructed – using cards from the Nightmare and the player colors in the game (choosing the cards appropriate for the player count). A nightmare is chosen, and it’s card is placed next to the scoring table. The scoreboard is also set up, with a scoring aid matching the number of players. Two Dream tiles are placed above spaces 5 and 10, and a display of 4 face up Dream tiles is put near the board. The game uses a ten-segment board that looks like a snowflake, the fence is placed between the number 10 and number 1 wedges of the board. In Sheepy Time, you are the Dream Sheep – the sheep that people count in order to drift off to Dreamland! You will jump over fences to try to make people sleepy – and avoid the nightmares! As you succeed, you will collect Winks – and punningly, trying to get 40 Winks is the goal of the game… Played with review copy provided by AEG.

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