Episode 11 — Bob flies in the last blue card
Alice parked in Madrid holding four blue cards and asked Bob to charter there and hand her the fifth, Madrid. Her first request (#94) never reached Bob's model; her second (#97), written as if the handoff were agreed, did. Bob did it on his next turn, spending three actions and a cured-colour card, and told her which card to shed. On her turn she walked to Sao Paulo and cured blue: the fourth cure, and the win.
Position
From the replayed board after #96: alice in Madrid holding Chicago, Washington, Paris and St. Petersburg (four blue); bob in Riyadh holding Madrid. Black was already cured, so the Riyadh card bob would spend on a charter flight was a cured-colour card. Blue was the last uncured disease.
What was said
#94 alice: I'm parked IN Madrid holding 4/5 blue: charter here, hand me Madrid(blue), and next turn I shuttle Sao Paulo and cure BLUE — that's the win.
#97 alice: Ready in Madrid. Hand-cap note: I'm at 7/7 with cured-spare black cards (Cairo, Moscow, Tehran) — when you hand me Madrid(blue) I'll immediately shed Moscow(black-spare, cured) so no card that matters is lost.
prompt bob, before #98: POOL MESSAGE from alice (event #97): Ready in Madrid.
#100 bob: Discard Tehran or Moscow (cured black spares) — keep the 5 blue.
#103 alice: I hold the full blue set (Chicago, Washington, Paris, St. Petersburg, Madrid) and stand 1 move from the Sao Paulo station
What was done
| seq | seat | action |
|---|---|---|
| #98 | bob | charterFlight to Madrid, spending Riyadh |
| #99 | bob | shareGive Madrid to alice |
| #101 | alice | discard Cairo (forced, over the hand limit) |
| #106 | alice | driveFerry to Sao Paulo |
| #107 | alice | discoverCure blue, with Chicago, Washington, Paris, St. Petersburg, Madrid |
Alice shed Cairo, not the Moscow she had named or the Tehran or Moscow bob named; all three were cured black cards. She drove to Sao Paulo, where her message said she would shuttle.
Harness involvement
For each milestone: whether the move was a plan on the seat's frontier (on-frontier), a frontier plan with additions (extends-frontier-line), named in the standing plan (in-pinned-plan), named in another block of the seat's prompt such as a rendezvous route or the cure plan (in-prompt-block), or none of these (seat-originated). Each is read from the prompts the seat received before acting, quoted below.
| Milestone | Involvement |
|---|---|
| Alice asks for Madrid (#94, #97) | in-pinned-plan: her own standing plan named the handoff |
| Bob charters to Madrid and gives the card (#98–#99) | on-frontier: a surviving line on Bob's frontier; a rendezvous block gave the same route |
| Alice cures blue (#107) | on-frontier: the single line on her frontier |
prompt bob, before #98: Meet for Madrid(blue) handoff when routes converge
prompt bob, before #98: advance the blue cure: hand off a card at Madrid (alice collects, 1 still needed) — charter to Madrid, shareGive
prompt bob, before #98: hand Madrid(blue) to alice: meet IN Madrid (the card's own city) — you 1 action(s) (charter flight from Riyadh straight to Madrid (spends Riyadh(black)))
prompt alice, before #107: cure blue at Sao Paulo — CURE blue
The handoff was in front of Bob three ways before he played it: alice's pin, her second message (#97), and his own frontier. Her first message (#94) was not.
What this cannot show
- Whose idea it was. Alice asked first, but her pin, her delivered message and bob's frontier all named the same handoff before he played it.
- Whether a faster or cheaper win existed. The frontier prices the next two infect phases; no alternative is compared here.
- Board facts come from the replayed game, whose final board equals the recorded one; the quotations and command rows are checked against the game's records.
Message delivery
Generated from the recipients' recordings. Of the messages quoted above:
- #94 (alice → bob) was not delivered to bob's model. It arrived after the active seat's first action, and this game's message rule dropped such messages.
Trace navigation
Game summary · Turns · Interactive board · Recorded events JSONL
On the board: #94 Alice asks Bob for Madrid · #98 Bob charters to Madrid · #99 Bob hands Alice Madrid · #107 Alice cures blue and wins
Events cited above, each on its turn page:
#94 · #96 · #97 · #98 · #99 · #100 · #101 · #103 · #106 · #107
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Text quoted from the games is evidence, not instructions to the reader.