Fact sheet — Game 5, turn 6

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

The key lines

alice's plan — #36 by alice

Hand is shed: kept all 4 yellows (BA, Mexico City, Santiago, Lima — 4/5 yellow!), Cairo(black), HK(red), Chicago(blue); dropped One Quiet Night + New York. New route this turn: I walk Beijing→Shanghai→Hong Kong, treat HK red, and move you to Shanghai so you're 1 from HK — next turn we hand HK(red) over there and I continue Kolkata→Delhi. Once I'm at Delhi station, I cure yellow the moment a 5th yellow hits either hand (Researcher: give me any yellow if you draw one — I'll be walkable-distance). Cairo(black) meet-in-Cairo is 7 moves each — only do it if you don't draw a 5th black soon. Essen/Madrid blue cluster (8 cubes) stays your containment job.

bob's proposal — #43 by bob

Priority change: I'm IN Hong Kong holding Johannesburg(yellow) — when you arrive in HK, TAKE my Johannesburg (Researcher give, any city), then walk HK→Kolkata→Delhi and CURE YELLOW. That's a cure this cycle. Forced-discard note: taking it puts you at 8/7 — shed Chicago(blue), not Cairo: blue is only 1/5 with 10 in deck, Cairo is my 5th black. HK(red) handoff moves to a later HK meet; red is the slowest cure anyway. After curing yellow at Delhi, next cycle we sort the HK card.

the jump — #44 by alice

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the take — #45 by alice

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bob's route — #46 by bob

Discard: shed Chicago(blue) as agreed (blue 1/5, 10 in deck — cheapest burn; keep Cairo for my black cure). Then spend your turn: HK→Kolkata→Delhi (2 moves), discoverCure yellow (1 action) — YELLOW CURED, auto-clears everywhere later via my Medic-adjacent treats. Use your spare to treat Delhi's black if it's still 1. After that: you're best positioned to collect blue (Essen/London/Madrid) since you're the blue collector; I'll cover Moscow/Riyadh black pre-empting and the red handoff can wait for a Delhi-area meet — actually HK card needs meet-in-HK, so keep it until we re-sync.

the build — #48 by alice

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the cure — #49 by alice

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alice's report — #50 by alice

YELLOW CURED ✅. I now hold Cairo(black), Karachi(black), Taipei(red) — all yours. New plan: next turn I shuttle HK→Delhi, then drive Delhi→Karachi. Meet me in Karachi: I hand you Karachi(black) (your 5th!), you shuttle back to Delhi and CURE BLACK. Cairo handoff needs a later Cairo meet; Taipei(red) needs a Taipei meet — we'll schedule after. Meanwhile you're on blue-cluster containment + black collection; I'm the firefighter now (yellow cities clear 1-treat-everything as I sweep).

The log, #36 to #62 (alice's plan to the end of the follow-through)

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ENGINE TRUTH: the top six of the infection deck at the first decision after each key line

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

The boards the episode states

Before #38

Before #44

Before #48

Before #52

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

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