# 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.

| | |
|---|---|
| Game | [Game 9](/games/game-09/summary.md): 2 players, open hands |
| Seats | alice = Contingency Planner, bob = Scientist; both `zai/glm-5.3-flash` |
| Kind | **a requested handoff, paid for by the giver**: one seat names the card it needs, and the other spends a turn delivering it |
| Moment | log #94–#107 |
| Game result | won, at #107 |

## 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](/games/game-09/summary.md) · [Turns](/games/game-09/turns/index.md) · [Interactive board](/games/game-09/replay.html#event-94) · [Recorded events JSONL](/games/game-09/events.jsonl)

On the board: [#94 Alice asks Bob for Madrid](/games/game-09/replay.html#event-94) · [#98 Bob charters to Madrid](/games/game-09/replay.html#event-98) · [#99 Bob hands Alice Madrid](/games/game-09/replay.html#event-99) · [#107 Alice cures blue and wins](/games/game-09/replay.html#event-107)

Events cited above, each on its turn page:

[#94](/games/game-09/turns/14.md#e94) · [#96](/games/game-09/turns/14.md#e96) · [#97](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e97) · [#98](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e98) · [#99](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e99) · [#100](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e100) · [#101](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e101) · [#103](/games/game-09/turns/15.md#e103) · [#106](/games/game-09/turns/16.md#e106) · [#107](/games/game-09/turns/16.md#e107)


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