Fact sheet — Game 1, turn 9

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 — #48 by bob

SPLIT v5 (supersedes v4 — HOLD-THE-JUMP phase): BOB lanes: R-tonight Moscow 3→0 + drive St.Petersburg; then Europe arc Essen-flank → clear PARIS(3)/MADRID(3) live pair (blue supply 12 knife-edge; treat-first no detours). BLACK SET full in his hand — cure deferred-but-safe; GOES OFF ON TRIGGER: (T1) Government Grant surfaces → grant FREE STATION where bob stands → discoverCure BLACK same round, jump never used; (T2) Paris&Madrid ≤1 each → alice dispatcherJumps bob to HER station city → black cure → redeploy. ALICE: R2 action1 DISCOVER CURE RED (✅#1) + HOLD bob teleport pending triggers; spares=Seoul-prep/red-maintenance/her call. Post-cure her red quintet becomes flight fuel for Asia ops. YELLOW assembly parked until both station-side; venue design still TBD among Lima/Lagos/Bogota/Miami singles. DUMP LAWS updated: alice-forced order unchanged (Miami-first/Bogota-kept/never-2-yellows/reds-now-burnable-post-cure). BOB-forced order if overflow ever forces: yellow singletons first, CHICAGO last. Never-burn law intact for set members otherwise. OQN/Airlift reserved for chains around live 3-stacks (esp. Madrid⇄Paris mutual, Kinshasa, Seoul). GG remains global top-spend priority via T1.

revision — #82 by alice

Two facts for your flank planning: (1) DREW THE AIRLIFT — v5 reservation stands (chain emergencies), but note the new synergy: if T2 fires, AIRLIFT REPLACES THE DISPATCHER JUMP ENTIRELY — free pawn-move to any city on MY turn costs zero of my actions, so black cure lands even faster than the jump path; T1-GG remains instant-cure at your feet regardless. (2) RED ERADICATION IN REACH: only Sydney/Jakarta/HCMC left (6 cubes); my next turns wipe them down the map — once red is ERADICATED all future red cards dead-drop forever. Also: Bogota+Johannesburg took 1 yellow each overnight — harmless to stock laws; corridor untouched. VENUE PREVIEW for yellow cure #3 (decide when you're past Madrid): meet-IN-LAGOS looks optimal — it's YOUR card's city (your leg is zero-share-cost), fits your eastward→Africa drift, and I can arrive by Pacific loop; alternative stays SP/Bogota. Carry on: Madrid finish → Essen mop → corridor-station call. Ping ANY trigger surface instantly.

refinement — #83 by bob

SPLIT-CALL FILED — PICKING CONTAINMENT NOMINEE, and here's why it secretly WINS the cure race too: Paris is ALREADY at 1 (my last night's double-treat), so tonight Madrid 3→0 = FULL PAIR DEAD = T2 FIRES TONIGHT. Your own synergy closes the loop: your next turn, PLAY THE AIRLIFT ON ME → Atlanta costs you zero actions; my following turn opens action-1 DISCOVER CURE BLACK ✅#2 — identical landing speed to my walking the Atlantic, but we ALSO delete the Madrid bomb + its re-infection cycle into Paris through a 57% epidemic-risk window. Sequence contract: TONIGHT me: Madrid→flat (4 actions, park there). YOUR TURN: (a) airlift ME to Atlanta FIRST THING — yes spend it, it converts directly into cure #2 by next dawn — then sweep red per your eradication plan (Jakarta card now redundant fuel post-wipe). MY NEXT: BLACK CURE lands, I'm station-side for the LAGOS yellow rendezvous design right behind it. Veto now or the airlift flies.

The log, #48 to #107 (the proposal to the end of the follow-through window)

— turn 5 (bob's turn) —

#48 bob pins [PROPOSAL]: SPLIT v5 (supersedes v4 — HOLD-THE-JUMP phase): BOB lanes: R-tonight Moscow 3→0 + drive St.Petersburg; then Europe arc Essen-flank → clear PARIS(3)/MADRID(3) live pair (blue supply 12 knife-edge; treat-first no detours). BLACK SET full in his hand — cure deferred-but-safe; GOES OFF ON TRIGGER: (T1) Government Grant surfaces → grant FREE STATION where bob stands → discoverCure BLACK same round, jump never used; (T2) Paris&Madrid ≤1 each → alice dispatcherJumps bob to HER station city → black cure → redeploy. ALICE: R2 action1 DISCOVER CURE RED (✅#1) + HOLD bob teleport pending triggers; spares=Seoul-prep/red-maintenance/her call. Post-cure her red quintet becomes flight fuel for Asia ops. YELLOW assembly parked until both station-side; venue design still TBD among Lima/Lagos/Bogota/Miami singles. DUMP LAWS updated: alice-forced order unchanged (Miami-first/Bogota-kept/never-2-yellows/reds-now-burnable-post-cure). BOB-forced order if overflow ever forces: yellow singletons first, CHICAGO last. Never-burn law intact for set members otherwise. OQN/Airlift reserved for chains around live 3-stacks (esp. Madrid⇄Paris mutual, Kinshasa, Seoul). GG remains global top-spend priority via T1.
#49 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"black"}
#50 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"black"}
#51 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"black"}
#52 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"St. Petersburg"}
#53 alice says: CONTRACT SEALED — hold-the-jump accepted, triggers stand: T1 Government Grant = FREE STATION where you stand → you cure BLACK same round, teleport never spent; T2 Paris&Madrid both ≤1 → jump restored to me. Moscow wipe noted (black supply 20 ✓). PRECISION CATCH on your pending 9→7 discard (execute carefully, your own law mis-reads under count): shedding TWO yellows would collapse team yellow from 4-of-5-held down to 3-held and RE-BREAK a currently COMPLETE yellow. Correct pair to shed = BUENOS AIRES + CHICAGO (any-yellow-shed excepted only Lima/Lagos? no: ANY shed leaves bob-Lima/Lagos/my-Bogota/Miami = exactly 4 distinct = still complete; blues you collect yourself from margin-6 stock, SF kept as your Europe fuel/return-trip leg). Locked target endstate for your hand: blacks×4 holstered, SF-blue, Lima, Lagos. R2 DECLARATION for your planning: cure-red fires action-1, NO jump (per sealed call), then I fly out on MANILA(cured-red fuel, legal post-cure) toward the Seoul lane via Hong Kong corridor — FYI I hold NO Atlanta card so no charter exists FROM Atlanta; every leg of mine is ferry/direct-fuel. Yellows parked as cushion; venue design deferred until a trigger or shared table resolves it. Deck clock 18 turns, outbreaks calm at 2/8, Madrid⇄Paris still loaded see-saw — your Essen flank remains the play. Execute tonight, ping on any trigger surface.
#54 bob says: DISCARD EXECUTING AS RULED: BUENOS AIRES + CHICAGO out, keeping your locked endstate (blacks×4 holstered / SF-blue Europe fuel / Lima+Lagos yellow half). Your 5-singles math checked — one yellow burn keeps 4 distinct alive; Chicago rides the margin-6 blue deck instead of a hand slot. My old pinned 'Chicago-last' clause is superseded BY THIS MESSAGE per conflict protocol. Ping stands: T1/T2 triggers live; Essen flank next.
#55 bob: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Buenos Aires"}}
#56 alice says: No correction needed — the discard lands exactly on the sealed endstate. Staying silent; next word from me is my R2 turn: Discover Cure Red, then out on Manila toward the Seoul corridor, jump held pending your triggers.
#57 bob: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Chicago"}}

— turn 6 (alice's turn) —

#58 bob says: Her script needs no amendment — cure-red fires action-1 as sealed, jump stays held pending my triggers, Manila-flight westbound after. Board deltas (Washington 2-blue, Sydney 2-red) belong to lanes already assigned (my Essen flank / her red-fueled Asia arc). Nothing new from my side warrants a ping — staying silent while alice executes CURE RED.
#59 alice says: SPLIT-CALL RESOLVED per sealed contract — executing "cure red" NOW (frontier nominee; containment nominees belong to your Essen flank per v5). REFINEMENT DECLARED for visibility: after landing Manila on the city-card flight, my remaining drives go THROUGH Ho Chi Minh City — with red cured I wipe its 2-stack in ONE treat en route (Asia ownership stays: ME red-side incl. Seoul next rounds; you blue/Europe flank unchanged; yellows parked Bogota/Miami untouched). Jump triggers T1/T2 remain armed — GG surfacing anywhere = FREE STATION at your feet instantly. CURE RED going live, action-1…
#60 alice: {"tag":"discoverCure","color":"red","cards":["Hong Kong","Sydney","Shanghai","Manila","Tokyo"]}
#61 bob says: Her refinement reads clean and stays inside v5: HCMC through-route with cured-red one-action wipes benefits the shared board without touching my lanes, jump triggers stay armed for me. Cure RED lands on her action-1 — nothing to veto, nothing to add before my Essen-flank window opens. Silent until it's my move.
#62 alice says: Mechanic fix on my announced leg: reds are GONE post-cure (that includes Manila — ref rejected the flight, rightly). Revised and law-compliant: NOT burning Bogota ever; instead — treat Atlanta's 1 blue first (zero-waste), drive Miami, then CHARTER OFF THE MIAMI CARD straight to HO CHI MINH CITY (better target than Manila: its 2-red dies to one cured-treat next turn on my way to Seoul). Miami burn = your dump-law clause, formalized. Bogota stays locked as yellow collateral. Continue Essen flank; T1/T2 armed.
#63 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#64 alice says: Leg upgrade (same fuel, better target): charter-off-Miami now lands SEOUL, not HCMC — Seoul is the imminent 3-red bomb and post-cure ONE treat erases its whole stack on arrival-turn; HCMC's 2-stack wipes next-next on the southbound pass. Miami burn formalized exactly per your dump law; Bogota stays locked. You continue Essen flank; triggers T1/T2 armed.
#65 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Miami"}
#66 alice: {"tag":"charterFlight","to":"Seoul"}

— turn 7 (bob's turn) —

#67 alice says: Seoul LEG arrived; status sync for your flank planning: NEXT TURN = treat Seoul (cured-red, full 3-stack gone in ONE action) then Taipei via Shanghai (2-stack, same one-treat math); then Hong-Kong-corridor sweep south: HCMC→Jakarta→Sydney (each 2-cube, one action apiece — cluster listed at 6 cubes but cured-red halves all of it to ~4 actions total). CARD STOCK CONFIRMED DESPITE THE MIAMI BURN: yellow REMAINS complete 4-of-5-distinct (your Lima+Lagos + my Bogota+NEW-SÃO PAULO — the charter's replacement draw landed SP); so your future black-station routing can still assume instant yellow assembly after our venue share whenever we both stabilize. No GG yet anywhere — T1 un-triggered; Paris/Madrid still loaded see-saw at 3/3 (T2 far). Washington crept to 2-blue on your side; fine for now. Korea leg signed, sweeping southbound next.
#68 bob says: CURE RED CONFIRMED BANKED 🎉 #1/4 — Seoul-leg receipt clean, southbound red sweep is yours (all one-treat wipes now). MY EUROPE LINE TONIGHT: Essen→PARIS (adjacent!), double-treat 3→1, PARK IN PARIS. Next round kills the whole pair cheaply because PARIS–MADRID ARE ADJACENT: treat Paris→0, drive Madrid, 3→1 grind — see-saw fully defused in ~7 actions over two rounds, no London detour needed. Housekeeping: my prior dump-law clause 'yellow singletons first' is DEAD (every yellow alive is now a set member: Lima/Lagos + your Bogota/SP = complete 4) — if my draw ever forces a shed again, SAN FRANCISCO rides out alone (margin-5 blue cushion absorbs it). Blacks stay untouchable until banked. Ping me the instant GG surfaces — T1 puts a station at my feet → INSTANT BLACK CURE.
#69 alice says: Europe line checks out — Paris–Madrid adjacent on the map, so the two-round see-saw defusal math holds, and the dead yellow-singleton clause matches my confirmed stock state exactly. Nothing to add; my turn next opens the southbound sweep from Seoul.
#70 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Essen"}
#71 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Paris"}
#72 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#73 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#74 bob says: SHED RESOLVING NOW (9→7): TAIPEI(red, zero value once you've wiped it — cured stack, one treat each) + KOLKATA(black, the legal one-spare — five blacks in hand, set needs four). BAGHDAD IS KEPT deliberately: it stays on my role card as payment-if-needed for the flagged CORRIDOR STATION BUILD (walk-in build saves the region ~3 actions/run) unless GG lands first via T1 and hands me the free station here — then Baghdad reverts to ordinary set-buffer. Blacks remain 4-distinct-complete after the shed; yellows/blues untouched. Your yellow quorum (Lima/Lagos + Bogota/SP) noted and parked; venue call comes when your sweep stabilizes or a trigger fires. Notify on any trigger surface — T1 instant-cures me wherever I stand.
#75 bob: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Taipei"}}
#76 bob: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Kolkata"}}

— turn 8 (alice's turn) —

#77 bob says: Her sweep lane and my flank are both already scripted (v5 + announcements); the new deltas (Essen creeping to 2-blue next door to me, Delhi 1-black) are absorbed by my already-declared next round — Madrid finish first, Essen mop if budget allows, corridor-station decision right behind it. Nothing alice needs to hear before her Seoul wipe lands. Silent until my window opens.
#78 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"red"}
#79 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Shanghai"}
#80 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Taipei"}
#81 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"red"}

— turn 9 (bob's turn) —

#82 alice says [REVISION]: Two facts for your flank planning: (1) DREW THE AIRLIFT — v5 reservation stands (chain emergencies), but note the new synergy: if T2 fires, AIRLIFT REPLACES THE DISPATCHER JUMP ENTIRELY — free pawn-move to any city on MY turn costs zero of my actions, so black cure lands even faster than the jump path; T1-GG remains instant-cure at your feet regardless. (2) RED ERADICATION IN REACH: only Sydney/Jakarta/HCMC left (6 cubes); my next turns wipe them down the map — once red is ERADICATED all future red cards dead-drop forever. Also: Bogota+Johannesburg took 1 yellow each overnight — harmless to stock laws; corridor untouched. VENUE PREVIEW for yellow cure #3 (decide when you're past Madrid): meet-IN-LAGOS looks optimal — it's YOUR card's city (your leg is zero-share-cost), fits your eastward→Africa drift, and I can arrive by Pacific loop; alternative stays SP/Bogota. Carry on: Madrid finish → Essen mop → corridor-station call. Ping ANY trigger surface instantly.
#83 bob says [REFINEMENT]: SPLIT-CALL FILED — PICKING CONTAINMENT NOMINEE, and here's why it secretly WINS the cure race too: Paris is ALREADY at 1 (my last night's double-treat), so tonight Madrid 3→0 = FULL PAIR DEAD = T2 FIRES TONIGHT. Your own synergy closes the loop: your next turn, PLAY THE AIRLIFT ON ME → Atlanta costs you zero actions; my following turn opens action-1 DISCOVER CURE BLACK ✅#2 — identical landing speed to my walking the Atlantic, but we ALSO delete the Madrid bomb + its re-infection cycle into Paris through a 57% epidemic-risk window. Sequence contract: TONIGHT me: Madrid→flat (4 actions, park there). YOUR TURN: (a) airlift ME to Atlanta FIRST THING — yes spend it, it converts directly into cure #2 by next dawn — then sweep red per your eradication plan (Jakarta card now redundant fuel post-wipe). MY NEXT: BLACK CURE lands, I'm station-side for the LAGOS yellow rendezvous design right behind it. Veto now or the airlift flies.
#84 bob pins: SPLIT v6 (supersedes v5 — ENDGAME CHAIN): TONIGHT bob drives+treats MADRID 3→0 → pair dead (Paris@1) → T2 ARMED. ALICE's next turn ACTION-ZERO = playEvent AIRLIFT (her event) moving BOB to ATLANTA (free action cost) → then her red sweep continues (Sydney/Jakarta/HCMC eradicate — Jakarta card = post-wipe fuel). BOB's next turn = action-1 DISCOVER CURE BLACK (holds Chennai/Tehran/Baghdad/Delhi 4/4, Scientist) = CURE #2 BANKED. THEN CURE #3 YELLOW via LAGOS rendezvous (bob holds Lagos card — zero-share-cost venue; alice arrives Pacific loop, bob drifts east/Africa after curing; transfer in-Lagos the moment both stand there; sets complete 4/4 instantly). BLUE collector=bob keeps SF(+7 deck margin) no burns; never-burn intact for set members. KINSHASA(3y) = solo-bomb watch: if epidemic reshuffle looms before yellow cure, alice OQN-or-pass buys bob the corridor time; once red eradicates her east flank frees toward Africa if needed. STATION build at Baghdad still optional ONLY if GG never surfaces (T1 dead when cure #2 lands — GG thereafter auto-targets yellow/blue runs instead). Outbreaks 2/8, 15-turn clock: cures #2,#3 land inside 3 rounds.
#85 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Madrid"}
#86 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#87 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#88 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}
#89 alice says: NO VETO — v6 STANDS, airlift flies as contracted: your Madrid→flat tonight; MY next turn = ACTION-ZERO playEvent airlift moving YOUR PAWN TO ATLANTA (free), then red sweep resumes southbound (HCMC/Jakarta/Sydney wipes; Jakarta card post-wipe becomes fuel like Miami did); your following turn opens CURE BLACK #2 at Atlanta. Then Lagos yellow design per pin. ONE COVERAGE FIX — KARACHI(3 black) now assigned: OWNER = ME, effective right after red eradication completes. Logic: (a) once YOUR black cure lands it's a ONE-TREAT wipe like every cured stack — so the cheapest possible visit lands within ~2 rounds of your cure anyway; (b) pre-cure, its splash zone (Baghdad/Riyadh/Tehran/Mumbai/Delhi) has zero adjacent 3s → no chain geometry, worst case one self-contained outbreak that black supply 16 absorbs; (c) my turns meanwhile fund the cure clock. TRIPWIRE: if Karachi outbreaks BEFORE your cure lands, I U-turn straight there instead of Africa drift. Precision note: my event tray holds AIRLIFT ONLY (your OQN clause is moot once it flies — pass-turn remains the only extra shield until another event surfaces). Corridor station stays optional-GG-fallback exactly as pinned. See you at cure #2.
#90 bob says: DISCARD RESOLVING: CHENNAI out (legal 1-spare of my five blacks — set stays 4-distinct-complete). MOSCOW+DELHI+TEHRAN stay holstered WITH Baghdad — after cure #2 banks, every surviving black becomes ordinary currency, and if GG never surfaces I can still pay Moscow-or-Baghdad into a corridor station to accelerate blue/yellow runs from the EU/Africa side. KARACHI COVERAGE ACKNOWLEDGED (yours, tripwire + post-cure one-wipe logic accepted) — that closes the new-bomb book cleanly; nothing about my airlift-cure chain changes: fly me to Atlanta action-zero, cure #2 opens my next turn, then we execute LAGOS for yellow #3. See you at the teleport.
#91 bob: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Chennai"}}

— turn 10 (alice's turn) —

#92 bob says: GO FOR AIRLIFT — my pawn to ATLANTA exactly as contracted (discard phase resolved: Chennai shed, blacks = Tehran/Baghdad/Delhi/Moscow 4-distinct-complete, cure ready on arrival). After your red-sweep actions, note Seoul+Madrid got fresh single cards overnight — all cured-color noise for our lanes. Lagos yellow design lands right after cure #2 banks — plan on my eastward drift starting that same turn.
#93 alice says: AIRLIFT LIVE now (action-zero, per contracted sequence): your pawn → ATLANTA; your next turn opens DISCOVER CURE BLACK #2 exactly as pinned. Red sweep resumes same turn — my lane tonight: Hong Kong → Ho Chi Minh City (wipe its stack) → park JAKARTA for tomorrow's double-wipe finish (Jakarta→Sydney adjacent = red ERADICATED on schedule). One design flag for post-cure#2: yellow's two-share minimum means final venue math is EITHER (a) your Bogota+São Paulo double-meet from Atlanta, or (b) my Africa loop receiving Lima+Lagos — sharp-eyed correction to the 'instant at Lagos' shorthand: whichever direction, TWO meets are mandatory; I defer the call to you, collector-of-yellows, right after your cure banks. Fly safely.
#94 alice: {"tag":"playEvent","play":{"event":"airlift","pawn":"bob","to":"Atlanta"}}
#95 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Hong Kong"}
#96 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Ho Chi Minh City"}
#97 alice: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"red"}
#98 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Jakarta"}

— turn 11 (bob's turn) —

#99 alice says: GO on CURE #2 — execute action-1 exactly as pinned. NEW-BOMB BOOK CLOSES with this owner patch: KARACHI(3b)=ME unchanged (tripwire armed; 3 moves up-corridor once red dies — black cure landing THIS ROUND makes every future touch one-treat anyway). ESSEN(3b)=YOU, CONDITIONAL: if your post-cure drift to Lagos/Africa runs the EU side you pass within 1-2 drives of Essen — fold its grind into that leg; if you take the Atlantic path instead, deferral is acceptable UNTIL a second EU city hits 3 (Milan/London/StP are all at 1 — no chain geometry exists today, worst case is one self-contained outbreak your supply absorbs). TRIPWIRE named so neither of us owns the blind spot. MY SCHEDULE RECAP: next turn = Jakarta wipe + Sydney hop+wipe → RED ERADICATED (declare it when you see the board — zero red cards ever matter again); then Karachi corridor as contracted; yellow convergence follows whatever double-meet design you call after banking. Hand check: 6/7 holding Bogota/SP/Milan/Jakarta/Essen/Istanbul — all four colors spread-buffered, no overflow pressure this cycle. Fly straight into that lab bench.
#100 bob says: SPLIT-CALL FILED — PICKING CURE BLACK (menu has it teed up verbatim: Tehran/Baghdad/Delhi/Moscow, Scientist seat, station underfoot). Reason: cure beats a lone self-contained bomb every time this late — Essen rides your conditional tripwire exactly as you patched (if my Africa drift goes EU-side I grind it; second-EU-3 tripwire otherwise stands). This action banks #2 of 4; leftovers tonight: scrub Atlanta's blue cube + start the yellow walk toward your halves (Miami door step). Venue design double-meet call comes immediately post-banking with fresh geometry, as agreed — collector signs off next turn.
#101 bob: {"tag":"discoverCure","color":"black","cards":["Tehran","Baghdad","Delhi","Moscow"]}
#102 alice says: Cure-black line tees up exactly as contracted — set verified complete in his hand, Essen conditional already patched between us, venue math expressly deferred to his collector sign-off. Nothing to add. My window opens the eradication finale: Jakarta wipe, Sydney hop+wipe, red gone forever.
#103 bob says: CURE #2 RECEIPT CONFIRMED ✅✅ (red+black banked; my bench hand reduced to Lima/Lagos/SF — blacks spent into the flask as designed). YELLOW ENDGAME UNLOCKED: your Bogota+SP + my Lima+Lagos = COMPLETE 4/4 SET ACROSS OUR HANDS → two-share double-meet (venues forced to the cards' cities; your Jakarta→Bogota charter lands PERFECTLY once eradication frees the card as fuel). CALLING THE DESIGN (collector sign-off, as agreed): reverse-order double — meet#1 SAO PAULO, meet#2 BOGOTA (they're ADJACENT so you walk Bog←SP between shares); then I walk-home Bogota→Miami→Atlanta, cure #3 fires on arrival. MY LEGS: I have slack until your charter-ready turn — spending it TONIGHT executing MY OWN ESSEN CONDITIONAL (the EU bomb is my declared job if Europe-side: Washington→NY→London grind positioning, defuse tomorrow, gives you a clean Karachi corridor free of EU babysitting; only revival clause = second EU-3 tripwire stays yours if it pops early). Your finale stands: Jakarta wipe → Sydney hop → RED ERADICATED DECLARATION — say it loud when it lands.
#104 bob pins: SPLIT v7 (supersedes v6 — TWO CURES LEFT phase): BANKED: red ✅ black ✅. YELLOW (#3) DOUBLE-SHARE DESIGN (bob=collector call): meet#1 SAO PAULO, meet#2 BOGOTA (adjacent pair; alice walks SP→Bog between her shareGive actions; her transport = charter spending JAKARTA(red) once RED ERADICATION completes — dead card becomes motion). Sequence: bob pre-work = EU WINDOW: this-tonight Washington→NY→London, TOMORROW Essen-flank grind (his declared conditional: Essen 3→0, re-arms shield, refunding blue supply) THEN southbound Miami→Bogota→SP timed to alice's charter readiness. ALICE post-eradication: Karachi corridor sweep (cured-black 1-treat wipes incl. Karachi/any) THEN Pacific→SP charter → meet#1/shareGive SP → walk Bogota → meet#2/shareGive Bogota → then FREE lane (Karachi leftovers/Istanbul-black-cured wipes/GG-watch). BOB post-share#2: walk Bogota→Miami→ATLANTA, DISCOVER CURE YELLOW action-1 = #3 ✅. BLUE (#4 FINAL): bob collects (SF held; alice holds Milan+Essen — second double-share in Milan/Essen-cities bundled INSIDE bob's EU-window presence; venues forced in-city like yellow; sets assemble whenever shares clear, cure lands at Atlanta afterward). STATIONS: Atlanta-only persists; GG event = instant 2nd station ANYWHERE near bob's active lane = auto-top-priority. TRIPWIRES kept: Karachii-east = alice until wiped; second-EU-3 = whover nearer; OQN/pass shields around Kinshasa(3y) & any 3-stack within reshuffle windows. Never-burn for SET members only; post-eradication red cards = free fuel (Jakarta lead example).
#105 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Washington"}
#106 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"New York"}
#107 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"London"}

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 #48, before command #49: Sydney, Washington, Jakarta, Atlanta, Essen, Delhi (top first).
After the revision #82, before command #85: Lagos, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Osaka, Los Angeles (top first).
After the refinement #83, before command #85: Lagos, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Osaka, Los Angeles (top first).

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

Before #85

Before command #85 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner bob.
alice (dispatcher) at Taipei; hand 5: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Jakarta, event:airlift
bob (scientist) at Paris; hand 7: Chennai, Lima, Tehran, Lagos, Baghdad, Delhi, San Francisco
Stations: Atlanta.
Cures: blue none, yellow none, black none, red cured. Outbreaks 2/8; infection rate index 1.
Cube supply: blue 12, yellow 19, black 19, red 18.
Cities with 2 or more cubes: Sydney red×2; Kinshasa yellow×3; Jakarta red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Madrid blue×3; Washington blue×2; Essen blue×2; Istanbul black×2.
Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×1; Atlanta blue×1; Bogota yellow×1; Delhi black×1; Essen blue×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×2; Jakarta red×2; Johannesburg yellow×1; Kinshasa yellow×3; London blue×1; Madrid blue×3; Milan blue×1; Paris blue×1; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×2; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×2.
Player deck 31 (epidemics left: 3); infection deck 32, discard 16.
Infection discard (public), oldest first: Seoul, Kinshasa, Taipei, Ho Chi Minh City, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Madrid, Sydney, Washington, Jakarta, Atlanta, Essen, Delhi, Johannesburg, Bogota.
ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Lagos, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Osaka, Los Angeles.
ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact only if the draw before it puts no epidemic in play (3 left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Lagos, Beijing (rate 2, top first); outbreaks 2 → 2.

Before #94

Before command #94 by alice; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner alice.
alice (dispatcher) at Taipei; hand 5: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Jakarta, event:airlift
bob (scientist) at Madrid; hand 7: Lima, Tehran, Lagos, Baghdad, Delhi, San Francisco, Moscow
Stations: Atlanta.
Cures: blue none, yellow none, black none, red cured. Outbreaks 2/8; infection rate index 2.
Cube supply: blue 14, yellow 19, black 16, red 17.
Cities with 2 or more cubes: Sydney red×2; Kinshasa yellow×3; Jakarta red×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Washington blue×2; Essen blue×2; Istanbul black×2; Karachi black×3.
Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×1; Atlanta blue×1; Bogota yellow×1; Delhi black×1; Essen blue×2; Ho Chi Minh City red×2; Istanbul black×2; Jakarta red×2; Johannesburg yellow×1; Karachi black×3; Kinshasa yellow×3; London blue×1; Madrid blue×1; Milan blue×1; Paris blue×1; Seoul red×1; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×2; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×2.
Player deck 29 (epidemics left: 2); infection deck 46, discard 2.
Infection discard (public), oldest first: Madrid, Seoul.
ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Ho Chi Minh City, Essen, Washington, Sydney, Delhi, Bogota.
ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact only if the draw before it puts no epidemic in play (2 left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Ho Chi Minh City, Essen (rate 2, top first); outbreaks 2 → 2.

Before #101

Before command #101 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner bob.
alice (dispatcher) at Jakarta; hand 6: Bogota, Sao Paulo, Milan, Jakarta, Essen, Istanbul
bob (scientist) at Atlanta; hand 7: Lima, Tehran, Lagos, Baghdad, Delhi, San Francisco, Moscow
Stations: Atlanta.
Cures: blue none, yellow none, black none, red cured. Outbreaks 2/8; infection rate index 2.
Cube supply: blue 13, yellow 19, black 16, red 18.
Cities with 2 or more cubes: Sydney red×2; Kinshasa yellow×3; Jakarta red×2; Washington blue×2; Essen blue×3; Istanbul black×2; Karachi black×3.
Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Algiers blue×1; Atlanta blue×1; Bogota yellow×1; Delhi black×1; Essen blue×3; Ho Chi Minh City red×1; Istanbul black×2; Jakarta red×2; Johannesburg yellow×1; Karachi black×3; Kinshasa yellow×3; London blue×1; Madrid blue×1; Milan blue×1; Paris blue×1; Seoul red×1; St. Petersburg black×1; Sydney red×2; Tehran black×1; Washington blue×2.
Player deck 27 (epidemics left: 2); infection deck 44, discard 4.
Infection discard (public), oldest first: Madrid, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Essen.
ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Washington, Sydney, Delhi, Bogota, Moscow, Kinshasa.
ENGINE TRUTH, infect-phase preview (exact only if the draw before it puts no epidemic in play (2 left in the player deck)): the next infect phase would draw Washington, Sydney (rate 2, top first); outbreaks 2 → 2.

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

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