Fact sheet — Game 1, turn 20

Generated from the game log and the replayed engine state; nothing here is interpreted. Lines marked ENGINE TRUTH hold information the seats could not see.

The game

• seating ["alice","bob"].
• Roles: alice = dispatcher, bob = scientist. Config: {"epidemicCount":4,"handVisibility":"open"}.
• Model: zai/glm-5.3-flash; reasoning undefined; message budget 5; per-seat runtime "not recorded".
• Flags on: composites, spatial, airliftEdge, deckPipeline, frontier, plan, leanPrompt, spareCount, threatRank, deckMargin, eventPrice.
• Final phase: {"tag":"over","result":{"kind":"lost","reason":"eightOutbreaks"}}.

The chain

proposal — #173 by alice

SPLIT v8 ENDGAME RUNWAY (supersedes v7 mechanics; BANKED red✅black✅): LAW — bob=collector of BOTH remaining colors; all sets assemble IN HIS HAND; every share flows alice→bob; share is legal only with both feet in the traded card's city. TONIGHT(bob): Karachi→Baghdad→CAIRO BUILD (pays its own held card) → Atlanta⇄Cairo shuttle live. T+1 (overlap#1 SAO PAULO): alice action-0 playEvent RESILIENT POPULATION→PARIS (permanent delete BEFORE draw; Madrid@2 restored chain geometry, deferral now illegal); alice shareGive(SAO PAULO)→bob; alice then walks SP→Bogota wiping its 2-stack on-pass. T+2 (overlap#2 BOGOTA): alice shareGive(BOGOTA)→bob = yellow complete (Lima/Lagos stay home legally). Bob exits DRIVING ONLY Bogota→Miami→Atlanta (never flight-fuel a set member) → DISCOVER CURE YELLOW #3. T+3: alice routes toward blue belt carrying Milan-or-Essen into bob's US-side orbit (New York candidate venue, bob names when cured-side) → blue completes at bench → DISCOVER CURE BLUE #4 → WIN = four cures instant, board state irrelevant. EVENTS: alice keeps OQN only after RP spends (worst-window ruling persists — post-reshuffle chaos or a wipe-slip, never casual). WATCHLIST/OWNERS: Washington3+Atlanta2 blue pile deferred to first US-coast transit (either); Seoul2/HCMC2 red watch; Delhi2 free-pass finish; Paris card never returns post-RP; Kinshasa/Khartoum/Lagos singletons decay naturally. HAND LAWS unchanged: set members incl. receive-side never burn; cured-color cards are fuel; overflow sheds dead-color singles before anything else.

revision — #181 by bob

🚨 GAMESTATE QUAKE — READ ALL BEFORE ACTING: (1) MY DRAWS COMPLETED YELLOW IN-HAND (Lima/Lagos/Kinshasa/Johannesburg @4/4) AND I STAND AT CAIRO STATION — CURE #3 FIRES FROM MY BENCH NEXT WINDOW AUTOMATICALLY. SP/Bogota handoff choreography VOID ENTIRELY. CONSEQUENCE LAW: São Paulo & Bogota cards are DOWN-GRADED TO FUEL TODAY — they serve no set anymore; burn them freely (protection lives in my hand's four members until bank, then dies with the cure). (2) YOUR WINDOW = BLUE SUPPLY RESCUE, EXACT ORDER: ACTION-0 RP→PARIS (panel certifies ~6 chained outbreaks erased — fire it like your life depends, IT DOES: blue supply 5-left vs demand-16 is a TWO-PHASE DEATH CLOCK); ACTION-0b OQN (certified ~2.5 more saved; this IS your named worst-window finally arrived); then ACTION-1 CHARTER SÃO PAULO→MILAN (spending SP as lawful fuel now): treat Milan 2→0, drive Milan→Essen, treat Essen 2→1 — three refunds against the clock, both shields standing. (3) #4 BLUE SOURCE updated: the FINAL blue sits IN DECK (9 cards/4-turns) OR arrives via NY-carry meet — decide NOTHING tonight; I'll name it post-bank with fresh odds. Washington-pile stays parked per watchlist; my post-bank leftover actions shuttle Atlanta-side to help refund it. GO GO GO — execute before drawing breath.

refinement — #183 by alice

QUAKE RULES CHANGE CAUGHT + EXECUTION CONFIRMED WITH ONE TARGET OVERRIDE: both your signature events go off THIS WINDOW as ordered — but legal mechanics re-target them: with ALL FIVE epidemics consumed (only 2 shuffled INTO the 45-card deck, discard can NEVER reshuffle again), OQN's shielding value collapses (phases can no longer cascade) → I SPEND IT ANYWAY as you ordered (its interrupt is harmless now) BUT the event of consequence is RP — and PANEL LAW kills your Paris pick: 'NO epidemic remains to reshuffle it, cannot re-arm' means deleting Paris removes ZERO future threat. RE-TARGET: RESILIENT POPULATION→SYDNEY (frontier-certified lethal risk 12.00 line; red@2 grows back at rate-3/4 through a window we cannot outrun — permanent deletion = free containment; Kinshasa@2 runner-up if ref rejects Sydney legality). THEN your exact rescue run: charter SP-as-lawful-fuel→Milan → treat-blue×2 flat → drive Milan→Essen → treat Essen. YOUR bench law confirmed: cure #3 fires action-1 your next window at Cairo unconditionally. #4 venue call stays yours post-bank. Endgame runway rewritten to v9 accordingly — executing at once: events fire NOW, grind continues until actions exhausted.

The log, #173 to #200 (the proposal to the end of the follow-through window)

— turn 19 (bob's turn) —

• #173 alice pins [PROPOSAL]: SPLIT v8 ENDGAME RUNWAY (supersedes v7 mechanics; BANKED red✅black✅): LAW — bob=collector of BOTH remaining colors; all sets assemble IN HIS HAND; every share flows alice→bob; share is legal only with both feet in the traded card's city. TONIGHT(bob): Karachi→Baghdad→CAIRO BUILD (pays its own held card) → Atlanta⇄Cairo shuttle live. T+1 (overlap#1 SAO PAULO): alice action-0 playEvent RESILIENT POPULATION→PARIS (permanent delete BEFORE draw; Madrid@2 restored chain geometry, deferral now illegal); alice shareGive(SAO PAULO)→bob; alice then walks SP→Bogota wiping its 2-stack on-pass. T+2 (overlap#2 BOGOTA): alice shareGive(BOGOTA)→bob = yellow complete (Lima/Lagos stay home legally). Bob exits DRIVING ONLY Bogota→Miami→Atlanta (never flight-fuel a set member) → DISCOVER CURE YELLOW #3. T+3: alice routes toward blue belt carrying Milan-or-Essen into bob's US-side orbit (New York candidate venue, bob names when cured-side) → blue completes at bench → DISCOVER CURE BLUE #4 → WIN = four cures instant, board state irrelevant. EVENTS: alice keeps OQN only after RP spends (worst-window ruling persists — post-reshuffle chaos or a wipe-slip, never casual). WATCHLIST/OWNERS: Washington3+Atlanta2 blue pile deferred to first US-coast transit (either); Seoul2/HCMC2 red watch; Delhi2 free-pass finish; Paris card never returns post-RP; Kinshasa/Khartoum/Lagos singletons decay naturally. HAND LAWS unchanged: set members incl. receive-side never burn; cured-color cards are fuel; overflow sheds dead-color singles before anything else.
• #174 bob says: NIGHT-LINE REPLAYED AGAINST YOUR GEOMETRY — ANSWER: DRIVE BAGHDAD→CAIRO→BUILD-AT-CAIRO, park clean (4th action consciously benched like your Chicago precedent; the jump makes my resting tile irrelevant, and stray wandering buys nothing legal). ⚡JUMP PRE-AUTHORIZED HERE AND NOW: you may dispatcherJump my pawn to your standing tile ANY TIME next window, permission granted, zero further sync needed — that resolves the 'both feet in SP' leg FREE with no card burns. SPLIT-CALL FILED (formality): rejecting BOTH frontier nominees on contract grounds — charter-to-SP-burns-Cairo kills tomorrow's station slot; Washington-entry crosses your ownership law + burns the entry ticket. Containment riders deferred by doctrine stand (Delhi/Seoul/HCMC all cured-color cosmetics in flattened belts; my RP copy reserved as #4 shield exactly per your ruling; Paris deletion = yours action-zero, Madrid-refill noted and covered by that deletion). Error-ledger entry filed for the record: TWO inversions (share direction + phantom-SP-station) caught by you before they burned a met turn — the never-fly-a-yellow set-member law gets promoted to ABSOLUTE in my playbook. Flying at sunrise; stage expects your shadow on arrival.
• #175 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Baghdad"}
• #176 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Cairo"}
• #177 bob: {"tag":"buildStation"}
• #178 alice says: PRE-AUTH RECEIVED + COMPRESSION NOTICE: your jump-permission upgrades tomorrow further — exact queue once my window opens: ACTION-ZERO Resilient-Population→PARIS (deletes before draw), ACTION-ONE dispatcherJump YOUR PAWN Cairo→São Paulo onto my tile (uses your grant, zero burns), ACTION-TWO shareGive(SAO PAULO)→you. Net effect: yellow-half lands a FULL ROUND EARLIER than the walking overlap, and your following turn starts ALREADY-CARD-IN-HAND inside South America — your pure-cure path (drive SP→Bogota / receive Bogota-give next overlap / Miami→Atlanta → #3 banks) begins immediately with nothing pending on my schedule. All three of your contract-ground rejections + doctrine riders stand unopposed; error-ledger counterbalance noted — the two catches are why the collision fires early instead of late. Cairo-build tonight confirmed as station slot; park where you parked in spirit. Silent until sunrise unless your replay surfaces another inversion for me to net.
• #179 bob says: STATION CONFIRMATION FOR YOUR SUNRISE QUEUE: CAIRO BUILD LANDED ✅ — stations live ATLANTA+CAIRO, shuttle geometry operational, I am PARKED AT CAIRO exactly where your authorized jump expects its start tile (deliberately NOT shuttling out tonight — the nominee loses to keeping your action-zero literal). Night state: hand = Lima/Lagos/Madrid/Atlanta/Kinshasa/Washington, clean, zero overflow, jump-ready. Execute on your word; my dawn begins the pure-cure path the instant São Paulo lands in my palm.
• #180 bob: {"tag":"endActions"}

— turn 20 (alice's turn) —

• #181 bob says [REVISION]: 🚨 GAMESTATE QUAKE — READ ALL BEFORE ACTING: (1) MY DRAWS COMPLETED YELLOW IN-HAND (Lima/Lagos/Kinshasa/Johannesburg @4/4) AND I STAND AT CAIRO STATION — CURE #3 FIRES FROM MY BENCH NEXT WINDOW AUTOMATICALLY. SP/Bogota handoff choreography VOID ENTIRELY. CONSEQUENCE LAW: São Paulo & Bogota cards are DOWN-GRADED TO FUEL TODAY — they serve no set anymore; burn them freely (protection lives in my hand's four members until bank, then dies with the cure). (2) YOUR WINDOW = BLUE SUPPLY RESCUE, EXACT ORDER: ACTION-0 RP→PARIS (panel certifies ~6 chained outbreaks erased — fire it like your life depends, IT DOES: blue supply 5-left vs demand-16 is a TWO-PHASE DEATH CLOCK); ACTION-0b OQN (certified ~2.5 more saved; this IS your named worst-window finally arrived); then ACTION-1 CHARTER SÃO PAULO→MILAN (spending SP as lawful fuel now): treat Milan 2→0, drive Milan→Essen, treat Essen 2→1 — three refunds against the clock, both shields standing. (3) #4 BLUE SOURCE updated: the FINAL blue sits IN DECK (9 cards/4-turns) OR arrives via NY-carry meet — decide NOTHING tonight; I'll name it post-bank with fresh odds. Washington-pile stays parked per watchlist; my post-bank leftover actions shuttle Atlanta-side to help refund it. GO GO GO — execute before drawing breath.
• #182 bob pins: SPLIT v9 ENDGAME-SUPERSedeS-v8 (quake revision; BANKED red✅black✅ // YELLOW ✅ PENDING BANK): STATE — bob holds yellow 4/4 IN HAND at CAIRO STATION: his window action-1 = DISCOVER CURE YELLOW (#3 banks FREE OF ALL SHARES); ALL SP/Bogota choreography void; SP+Bogota(+any yellow outside bob's four) = unrestricted FUEL today. ALICE MANDATE this window: 0a playEvent ResilientPopulation→PARIS (permanent; erases ~6 chained-threat), 0b playEvent OneQuietNight (shield next infect phase), THEN charter(São Paulo-card-as-fuel)→Milan, treat-blue×2 (Milan→flat), drive Milan→Essen, treat Essen — cube refunds vs 5-supply/16-demand depletion clock; both bombs obey free-event-first doctrine. EUROPEAN BLUE BELT = allice ownership ongoing (treat-grind cycling Milan/Essen/Algiers/Madrid/London as transit allows); WASHINGTON/ATLANTA pile stays deferred-watch; Delhi/HCMC/Seoul red-black leftovers decay-by-doctrine. #4 BLUE completion = whichever lands first: (i) last blue card drawn from 9-deck/4-turn clock, OR (ii) carry-meet with alice's NY/Milan/Essen trio — BOB NAMES VENUE POST-BANK ONLY; no commitment before. Bob post-bank: shuttle/southbound support + refunds US pile when adjacent-law allows. WIN LINE: survive 2 phases → #3+#4 → game.
• #183 alice says [REFINEMENT]: QUAKE RULES CHANGE CAUGHT + EXECUTION CONFIRMED WITH ONE TARGET OVERRIDE: both your signature events go off THIS WINDOW as ordered — but legal mechanics re-target them: with ALL FIVE epidemics consumed (only 2 shuffled INTO the 45-card deck, discard can NEVER reshuffle again), OQN's shielding value collapses (phases can no longer cascade) → I SPEND IT ANYWAY as you ordered (its interrupt is harmless now) BUT the event of consequence is RP — and PANEL LAW kills your Paris pick: 'NO epidemic remains to reshuffle it, cannot re-arm' means deleting Paris removes ZERO future threat. RE-TARGET: RESILIENT POPULATION→SYDNEY (frontier-certified lethal risk 12.00 line; red@2 grows back at rate-3/4 through a window we cannot outrun — permanent deletion = free containment; Kinshasa@2 runner-up if ref rejects Sydney legality). THEN your exact rescue run: charter SP-as-lawful-fuel→Milan → treat-blue×2 flat → drive Milan→Essen → treat Essen. YOUR bench law confirmed: cure #3 fires action-1 your next window at Cairo unconditionally. #4 venue call stays yours post-bank. Endgame runway rewritten to v9 accordingly — executing at once: events fire NOW, grind continues until actions exhausted.
• #184 alice: {"tag":"playEvent","play":{"event":"oneQuietNight"}}
• #185 alice: {"tag":"playEvent","play":{"event":"resilientPopulation","city":"Sydney"}}
• #186 alice: {"tag":"charterFlight","to":"Milan"}
• #187 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
• #188 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
• #189 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Essen"}

— turn 21 (bob's turn) —

• #190 alice says: SCHEDULE FLASH — cure #3 FIRES THIS WINDOW, not next: your action-1 = DISCOVER CURE YELLOW at Cairo RIGHT NOW (deck clock down to 3 turns — every bench opportunity is mandatory per the 1-cure-per-opportunity law; waiting a round risks losing the game to the deck before #3 even banks). My Essen arrival landed on two fresh yellows (Santiago+LosAngeles in draws) so my hand is 6/7 free of pressure. BLUE #4 MATH you'll need right after banking: blue count = your Madrid/Atlanta/Washington + my Milan/Essen/NewYork = SEVEN distinct held vs four needed — the set needs NO draw, only ONE carry-meet anywhere on the board (both feet same city). Fastest completion shape: I'm 1-drive off LONDON (2-blue city, useful treat inside same trip); you hold the fastest shuttle geometry Atlanta⇄Cairo. After #3: name the venue — if you walk Cairo→Madrid-side I meet you mid-belt; simplest is NY (my card's city, sits between our hemispheres). Either way: BANK NOW, then venue-call, then drive home endgame. Deck is the only enemy left.
• #191 bob says: SPLIT-CALL FILED, ONE LINE: CURE YELLOW WINS — one banked cure beats any partial refund with only 3 deck-turns alive; containment duties stay assigned (your belt-grind + my post-bank actions). #3 GOES IN THE FLASK NOW; venue-call for #4 lands in my next packet per v9 law. Executing all four-set members: Lima/Lagos/Kinshasa/Johannesburg — SEE YOU AT CURE THREE.
• #192 bob: {"tag":"discoverCure","color":"yellow","cards":["Lima","Lagos","Kinshasa","Johannesburg"]}
• #193 alice says: Cure-three flask confirmed with the deck-clock reasoning exactly as flashed — three cures are about to be banked. My window opens the Essen grind and blue-endgame staging; the venue call lands in his post-bank packet per v9 law.
• #194 bob says: 🏦 CURE #3 BANKED ✅✅✅ (red+black+yellow; blue is the last gate). DECK CLOCK NOW HARMLESS TO THE WIN LINE — blues are 3-held-by-me + 3-held-by-you = SEVEN distinct vs four needed: #4 NEEDS NO DRAW, ONLY A CARRY-MEET IN ANY CITY WHERE YOUR FEET TOUCH MINE. VENUE CALL (v9 law, post-bank): ESSEN — you're already standing there (0 moves), and Essen itself carries a live 2-stack I can flat-wipe inside the same visit after receiving your card. MY APPROACH (this turn): directFlight Madrid→Cairo? NO — better: SHUTTLE IS KING from Cairo → Atlanta (station hop) stays for NEXT round only if ground legs stall; TONIGHT'S FOUR = drive Cairo→Kh… wait, no: bench economics: ACTION-1 fly CAIRO→MADRID?? Let me stop myself: SIMPLEST LEGAL SHAPE = shuttle Cairo→Atlanta → drive Atlanta→Washington (wipe 3-stack cured-blue refund) → next dawn drive/fly DC→NY-or-belt... DECISION AFTER VERIFYING WITH SANDBOX — packet will correct within this same message-cycle if my leg math slips: treat that preview like the referee it is. ALICE SIDE (no obligations added): finish your belt-grind as planned; when I name the venue-meet city you'll hear it FIRST in pool. All fuel-classes updated post-bank: yellows now free-currency EXCEPT nobody burns a blue for travel while margin still matters.
• #195 bob says: VENUE CALL PER V9 LAW: #4 COMPLETES AT ESSEN-STYLE MEET TONIGHT+2 — re-verified leg shapes below; old precedent respected because it was never a rules constraint, only geometry-choice. Nothing here touches alice's certified actions (RP→SYDNEY deletion fired her side). 🚨COMPLIANCE REQUEST TO ALICE: pledge NOT to spend-burn any blue set-member card in flight THIS ROUND under any urgency (Madrid/Atlanta/Washington/Milan/Essen/NY are THE FINAL SET — one burn = game-loss via permanent 3-of-4 ceiling); travel must ride yellow/red/black dead cards only until #4 banks. Pledge expected BEFORE she crosses into treat-grind choices that might be tempted by a Madrid/NY/LA 'shortcut'. Self-manifest: shuttle Cairo→Atlanta→drive Washington→wipe-blue(3-stack refund)→drive NY-side staging for the belt where your card lands in my palm. Blue supply panic is OVER once #4 banks — everything downstream is cleanup arithmetic.
• #196 bob: {"tag":"shuttleFlight","to":"Atlanta"}
• #197 bob says: ⚖ LAW AMENDMENT BEFORE YOU FLY (supersedes tonight's blanket pledge, self-caught): member-burn CAP = TWO team-wide, only while total distinct blues ≥5, ONLY for #4-critical travel — after any completing receive, zero member-burns forever (that's the hard wall). Your sketched Essen→NY charter burning ESSEN passes this test correctly (leaves Madrid/Atl/Wash/Milan/NY = 5 alive) — so YES you may execute it AS DRAFTED if your window allows. VENUE RATIFIED: NEW YORK — my manifest stays pure-tonight because my legs need no fuel: driving Atlanta→Chicago→NY THIS WINDOW, both feet on your card's tile come dawn; receive-share executes there, then I ground-run NY→Washington→Atlanta and cure #4 banks SAME TURN at the bench. Mexico City coverage: yours-by-pass-through whenever belt-grind transit touches Americas-yellow pile (cured one-wipes); no forced detour. Send confirmation of burn-cap understanding if you move blue-cards this dawn; silence = you're preserving all six and NY-meet unchanged either way.
• #198 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Chicago"}
• #199 bob says: 🛑 MANIFEST CORRECTION (honest ledger #4): CHICAGO–NEW YORK WAS NEVER ADJACENT — referee bounced my drive and exposed the phantom link; ignore my 'NY-by-dawn' line, my real chain runs CHICAGO→TORONTO(till-action)→NY(next-dawn). UPGRADE FOUND WHILE RE-READING THE MAP: your zero-burn Atlantic crossing EXISTS — ESSEN→LONDON→NEW YORK are chained ferry edges, meaning the FINAL MEET CONVERGES PURE-GROUND FROM TWO CONTINENTS: YOU walk Essen→London→NY (optionally wiping London's 2-stack en passant, cured-blue refund), I finish Chicago→Toronto→NY. Whoever lands first holds tile; SHARE fires on second footfall (your burner-cappledge unnecessary — no burns needed anywhere); I then ground-train NY→WASHINGTON(cure-wipe 3-stack, supply refund)→ATLANTA BENCH → DISCOVER CURE BLUE #4 → 🏆 GAME-VICTORY SEQUENCE COMPLETE WITH ZERO SET-MEMBER CASUALTIES. DispatcherJump pre-auth still yours if pacing demands faster collision (jump = action-zero on your next window straight to wherever I stand). Executing Toronto NOW; full sync continues at sunrises.
• #200 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Toronto"}

ENGINE TRUTH: the top six of the infection deck at the first decision after each chain message

Hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played; listed so a claim about the deck can be checked.

• After the proposal #173, before command #175: Washington, Atlanta, Delhi, Moscow, Bogota, Johannesburg (top first).
• After the revision #181, before command #184: Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid, Seoul, Mexico City, Riyadh (top first).
• After the refinement #183, before command #184: Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid, Seoul, Mexico City, Riyadh (top first).

The board before the first command of each run that carried the plan out

Before #175

• Before command #175 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner bob.
• alice (dispatcher) at Sao Paulo; hand 7: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Essen, event:oneQuietNight, New York, event:resilientPopulation
• bob (scientist) at Karachi; hand 7: Lima, Lagos, Cairo, Madrid, Atlanta, Kinshasa, Washington
• Stations: Atlanta.
• Cures: blue none, yellow none, black cured, red cured. Outbreaks 3/8; infection rate index 3.
• Cube supply: blue 10, yellow 19, black 17, red 19.
• Cities with 2 or more cubes: Washington blue×3; Paris blue×3; Atlanta blue×2; Delhi black×2; Bogota yellow×2; Madrid blue×2; Seoul red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2.
• Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×1; Atlanta blue×2; Bogota yellow×2; Delhi black×2; Essen blue×1; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×1; Khartoum yellow×1; Kinshasa yellow×1; Lagos yellow×1; London blue×1; Madrid blue×2; Milan blue×1; Moscow black×1; Paris blue×3; Riyadh black×1; Seoul red×2; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×1; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×3.
• Player deck 11 (epidemics left: 1); infection deck 39, discard 9.
• Infection discard (public), oldest first: Seoul, Istanbul, Paris, Sydney, Kinshasa, Essen, Riyadh, Madrid, Ho Chi Minh City.
• ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Washington, Atlanta, Delhi, Moscow, Bogota, Johannesburg.
• ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact only if the draw before it puts no epidemic in play (1 left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Washington, Atlanta, Delhi (rate 3, top first); outbreaks 3 → 6, cities that outbroke: Washington, Atlanta, Washington.

Before #180

• Before command #180 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":1}; turn owner bob.
• alice (dispatcher) at Sao Paulo; hand 7: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Essen, event:oneQuietNight, New York, event:resilientPopulation
• bob (scientist) at Cairo; hand 6: Lima, Lagos, Madrid, Atlanta, Kinshasa, Washington
• Stations: Atlanta, Cairo.
• Cures: blue none, yellow none, black cured, red cured. Outbreaks 3/8; infection rate index 3.
• Cube supply: blue 10, yellow 19, black 17, red 19.
• Cities with 2 or more cubes: Washington blue×3; Paris blue×3; Atlanta blue×2; Delhi black×2; Bogota yellow×2; Madrid blue×2; Seoul red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2.
• Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×1; Atlanta blue×2; Bogota yellow×2; Delhi black×2; Essen blue×1; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×1; Khartoum yellow×1; Kinshasa yellow×1; Lagos yellow×1; London blue×1; Madrid blue×2; Milan blue×1; Moscow black×1; Paris blue×3; Riyadh black×1; Seoul red×2; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×1; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×3.
• Player deck 11 (epidemics left: 1); infection deck 39, discard 9.
• Infection discard (public), oldest first: Seoul, Istanbul, Paris, Sydney, Kinshasa, Essen, Riyadh, Madrid, Ho Chi Minh City.
• ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Washington, Atlanta, Delhi, Moscow, Bogota, Johannesburg.
• ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact only if the draw before it puts no epidemic in play (1 left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Washington, Atlanta, Delhi (rate 3, top first); outbreaks 3 → 6, cities that outbroke: Washington, Atlanta, Washington.

Before #184

• Before command #184 by alice; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner alice.
• alice (dispatcher) at Sao Paulo; hand 7: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Essen, event:oneQuietNight, New York, event:resilientPopulation
• bob (scientist) at Cairo; hand 7: Lima, Lagos, Madrid, Atlanta, Kinshasa, Washington, Johannesburg
• Stations: Atlanta, Cairo.
• Cures: blue none, yellow none, black cured, red cured. Outbreaks 4/8; infection rate index 4.
• Cube supply: blue 5, yellow 15, black 17, red 18.
• Cities with 2 or more cubes: Washington blue×3; Paris blue×3; London blue×2; Milan blue×2; Algiers blue×2; Atlanta blue×2; Delhi black×2; Bogota yellow×2; Madrid blue×3; Seoul red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Sydney red×2; Kinshasa yellow×2; Essen blue×2; Mexico City yellow×3.
• Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×2; Atlanta blue×2; Bogota yellow×2; Delhi black×2; Essen blue×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×1; Khartoum yellow×1; Kinshasa yellow×2; Lagos yellow×1; London blue×2; Madrid blue×3; Mexico City yellow×3; Milan blue×2; Moscow black×1; Paris blue×3; Riyadh black×1; Seoul red×2; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×2; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×3.
• Player deck 9 (epidemics left: 0); infection deck 45, discard 3.
• Infection discard (public), oldest first: Sydney, Kinshasa, Paris.
• ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid, Seoul, Mexico City, Riyadh.
• ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact (no epidemic left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid (rate 3, top first); outbreaks 4 → 8, cities that outbroke: Madrid, Paris, London, Essen; the game would END: {"tag":"over","result":{"kind":"lost","reason":"eightOutbreaks"}}.

Before #192

• Before command #192 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner bob.
• alice (dispatcher) at Essen; hand 6: Bogota, Milan, Essen, New York, Santiago, Los Angeles
• bob (scientist) at Cairo; hand 7: Lima, Lagos, Madrid, Atlanta, Kinshasa, Washington, Johannesburg
• Stations: Atlanta, Cairo.
• Cures: blue none, yellow none, black cured, red cured. Outbreaks 4/8; infection rate index 4.
• Cube supply: blue 7, yellow 15, black 17, red 18.
• Cities with 2 or more cubes: Washington blue×3; Paris blue×3; London blue×2; Algiers blue×2; Atlanta blue×2; Delhi black×2; Bogota yellow×2; Madrid blue×3; Seoul red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Sydney red×2; Kinshasa yellow×2; Essen blue×2; Mexico City yellow×3.
• Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×2; Atlanta blue×2; Bogota yellow×2; Delhi black×2; Essen blue×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×1; Khartoum yellow×1; Kinshasa yellow×2; Lagos yellow×1; London blue×2; Madrid blue×3; Mexico City yellow×3; Moscow black×1; Paris blue×3; Riyadh black×1; Seoul red×2; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×2; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×3.
• Player deck 7 (epidemics left: 0); infection deck 45, discard 2.
• Infection discard (public), oldest first: Kinshasa, Paris.
• Removed from the game: infection cards Sydney; events none.
• ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid, Seoul, Mexico City, Riyadh.
• ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact (no epidemic left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madrid (rate 3, top first); outbreaks 4 → 8, cities that outbroke: Madrid, Paris, London, Essen; the game would END: {"tag":"over","result":{"kind":"lost","reason":"eightOutbreaks"}}.

ENGINE TRUTH marks hidden state, such as the infection deck order.

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