Fact sheet — Game 6, turn 10

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 = medic. Config: {"epidemicCount":4,"handVisibility":"open","rolePool":["dispatcher","medic"]}.
Model: zai/glm-5.3-flash; reasoning undefined; message budget 5; per-seat runtime "not recorded".
Flags on: composites, spatial, airliftEdge, dispatchEdge, dispatchRelocate, deckPipeline, frontier, plan, leanPrompt, spareCount, threatRank, deckMargin, eventPrice.
Final phase: {"tag":"over","result":{"kind":"won"}}.

The chain

proposal — #84 by bob

PLAN v10 (red bombs cleared; black 4/5, handoff = Delhi card): Bob cleared Bangkok+Jakarta (red supply 17); holds Delhi+Baghdad(black), Osaka+Sydney(red) — red 2/5, black 2/5. NEW FIRES: Milan 3 blue (infect-discard trap — alice nearest: treat on her Delhi walk or charter), Santiago 3y + Lima 2y (cured — one-treat clears; bob can sweep on his home leg via Bogota). ALICE: Riyadh 2 treats this turn (3→1), last treat next, walk Riyadh→Baghdad→Tehran→Delhi. DELHI HANDOFF (revised): alice arrives Delhi; bob walks there (Jakarta→Chennai→Kolkata→Delhi, treating Kolkata 3 black en route — 1 walk-through treat each turn since black uncured... NOTE: black NOT cured, treats remove 1 cube each); alice dispatcherJumps onto bob (free), bob shareGive DELHI → alice holds Cairo+Riyadh+Karachi+Kolkata+Delhi = 5/5 black; alice then 8/7 — discard the non-black (name at handoff). Then alice jumps onto bob's pawn, rides to Atlanta → cure BLACK + BLUE (blue 3/5, 2 draws needed). Red: bob 2/5, keeps ALL red cards.

revision — #86 by alice

Bob — 2 new 3-cube fires to know about: MILAN 3 blue and SANTIAGO 3 yellow (Lima 2 behind it). Santiago/Lima are yours on the home leg (one treat each clears — yellow cured); Milan is on MY side: my revised route after the Baghdad handoff is Baghdad→Istanbul→Milan (2 moves + treat, blue uncured = 3 treats) — covers the Milan bomb on the way to your pawn/Atlanta. Black handoff this turn: I drive Cairo→Baghdad, JUMP YOU onto me (free — you keep Delhi too), take Baghdad = black 5/5 complete (Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad). Your card stock unchanged. Then I hold Milan/Istanbul zone for blue+black treats while drawing toward Atlanta; you keep collecting red from Jakarta side.

refinement — #91 by bob

Alice — game-changer: you hold ALL 5 BLACK (Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad). Delhi handoff is MOOT — keep my Delhi as fuel/backup. DISCARD: a blue (Paris suggested) — protect the full black set. NEW PLAN: don't walk 6 to Atlanta — I'm your taxi. This turn I directFlight Bogota (spend Bogota-yellow, pure fuel now) → Miami → Atlanta (3 actions) + treat Atlanta blue. Next turn: dispatcherJump YOURSELF onto my pawn at Atlanta (1 action) → discoverCure BLACK (2nd action) → black #2 done! Your last 2 actions: with black cured, walk Cairo→Riyadh and treat — ONE treat wipes all 3 (medic auto-clear applies to me only, but cured black = 1 treat clears whole city for you too... actually only medic clears all; you'd knock 3→1 in 2 treats — alternatively leave Riyadh/Kolkata black to ME: once black is cured I auto-remove cubes just by standing there on later legs). Milan 3-blue trap: whoever passes Istanbul. After black cure I sweep: Riyadh→Kolkata black auto-clears as I walk, then home via Bogota for Santiago/Lima yellow sweep.

The log, #84 to #111 (the proposal to the end of the follow-through window)

— turn 10 (alice's turn) —

#84 bob pins [PROPOSAL]: PLAN v10 (red bombs cleared; black 4/5, handoff = Delhi card): Bob cleared Bangkok+Jakarta (red supply 17); holds Delhi+Baghdad(black), Osaka+Sydney(red) — red 2/5, black 2/5. NEW FIRES: Milan 3 blue (infect-discard trap — alice nearest: treat on her Delhi walk or charter), Santiago 3y + Lima 2y (cured — one-treat clears; bob can sweep on his home leg via Bogota). ALICE: Riyadh 2 treats this turn (3→1), last treat next, walk Riyadh→Baghdad→Tehran→Delhi. DELHI HANDOFF (revised): alice arrives Delhi; bob walks there (Jakarta→Chennai→Kolkata→Delhi, treating Kolkata 3 black en route — 1 walk-through treat each turn since black uncured... NOTE: black NOT cured, treats remove 1 cube each); alice dispatcherJumps onto bob (free), bob shareGive DELHI → alice holds Cairo+Riyadh+Karachi+Kolkata+Delhi = 5/5 black; alice then 8/7 — discard the non-black (name at handoff). Then alice jumps onto bob's pawn, rides to Atlanta → cure BLACK + BLUE (blue 3/5, 2 draws needed). Red: bob 2/5, keeps ALL red cards.
#85 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Cairo"}
#86 alice says [REVISION]: Bob — 2 new 3-cube fires to know about: MILAN 3 blue and SANTIAGO 3 yellow (Lima 2 behind it). Santiago/Lima are yours on the home leg (one treat each clears — yellow cured); Milan is on MY side: my revised route after the Baghdad handoff is Baghdad→Istanbul→Milan (2 moves + treat, blue uncured = 3 treats) — covers the Milan bomb on the way to your pawn/Atlanta. Black handoff this turn: I drive Cairo→Baghdad, JUMP YOU onto me (free — you keep Delhi too), take Baghdad = black 5/5 complete (Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad). Your card stock unchanged. Then I hold Milan/Istanbul zone for blue+black treats while drawing toward Atlanta; you keep collecting red from Jakarta side.
#87 alice: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Baghdad"}
#88 alice: {"tag":"dispatcherJump","pawn":"bob","toPawn":"alice"}
#89 alice: {"tag":"shareTake","from":"bob","card":"Baghdad"}
#90 alice: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Toronto"}}
#91 bob says [REFINEMENT]: Alice — game-changer: you hold ALL 5 BLACK (Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad). Delhi handoff is MOOT — keep my Delhi as fuel/backup. DISCARD: a blue (Paris suggested) — protect the full black set. NEW PLAN: don't walk 6 to Atlanta — I'm your taxi. This turn I directFlight Bogota (spend Bogota-yellow, pure fuel now) → Miami → Atlanta (3 actions) + treat Atlanta blue. Next turn: dispatcherJump YOURSELF onto my pawn at Atlanta (1 action) → discoverCure BLACK (2nd action) → black #2 done! Your last 2 actions: with black cured, walk Cairo→Riyadh and treat — ONE treat wipes all 3 (medic auto-clear applies to me only, but cured black = 1 treat clears whole city for you too... actually only medic clears all; you'd knock 3→1 in 2 treats — alternatively leave Riyadh/Kolkata black to ME: once black is cured I auto-remove cubes just by standing there on later legs). Milan 3-blue trap: whoever passes Istanbul. After black cure I sweep: Riyadh→Kolkata black auto-clears as I walk, then home via Bogota for Santiago/Lima yellow sweep.
#92 bob pins: PLAN v11 (BLACK SET COMPLETE — alice 5/5): Delhi handoff MOOT; bob's Delhi = fuel/backup. Alice discards a BLUE (Paris) to protect the black set. TAXI PLAN: bob this turn directFlight Bogota (Bogota-yellow = fuel) → Miami → Atlanta (+ treat Atlanta blue). Alice next turn: dispatcherJump onto bob at Atlanta (1 action) → discoverCure BLACK (2nd action) → black #2. Bob then auto-removes black cubes by presence (medic passive): sweeps Riyadh (3), Kolkata (3) on later legs; also sweeps Santiago 3/Lima 2 yellow (cured, one treat each) via Bogota route home. Milan 3-blue trap: treat if passing Istanbul (blue uncured — 1 cube/treat). Blue: alice 3/5 (Paris+SF+Toronto), needs 2 draws. Red: bob 2/5 (Osaka, Sydney), keeps ALL red.
#93 alice: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Paris"}}
#94 alice: {"tag":"discard","card":{"kind":"city","city":"Hong Kong"}}

— turn 11 (bob's turn) —

#95 alice says: Bob — my discard update: kept all 5 black (untouchable until cure), shed Paris(blue)+Hong Kong(red). I now hold Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad + SF(blue)+Essen(blue). Your Bogota-taxi plan to Atlanta stands — next turn I jump onto your pawn at Atlanta, discoverCure BLACK, done. NEW fire while you fly: San Francisco 3 blue (infect-discard trap) — after my jump-and-cure I'll cover west-blue: my route next turns is jump to your pawn (Atlanta) → cure black → then I'll take SF/Milan blue treats myself since you're sweeping south-yellow. Manila 2 red is small, leave it. Red card count: I hold zero red now (burned HK) — your Osaka+Sydney are the seed, 3 more draws needed; keep every red card you draw.
#96 bob says: Alice — SF(3 blue) noted as the new trap; assigning it to you post-cure as you proposed (direct/charter with your SF card is the accepted burn: blue drops to 1/5 + 7 in deck, cure still reachable). My turn: Bogota→Miami→Atlanta + treat Atlanta blue — I'll be ON the station end of turn, so your jump→discoverCure BLACK lands next turn as planned. After your cure: you take SF+Milan blue treats; I sweep Riyadh(3)+Kolkata(3) black auto-clears on my walk east→south, then Santiago/Lima yellow one-treats via Bogota. Manila 2 red — agreed, leave; I'll absorb it if I pass. Red stays 2/5 with me, never burned as fuel.
#97 bob pins: PLAN v12: Taxi sequence ON: bob ends this turn at Atlanta station (Bogota→Miami→Atlanta + treat blue). Alice next turn: dispatcherJump onto bob → discoverCure BLACK (cure #2; her set Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad burns). Then: ALICE covers west-blue: San Francisco 3 (burn SF card OK) + Milan 3 (via Istanbul walk); blue 2/5→needs draws. BOB sweeps: Riyadh 3 + Kolkata 3 black (auto-clear by presence once black cured — walk Riyadh/Baghdad→Tehran→Delhi→Kolkata), then Santiago 3 + Lima 2 yellow one-treats via Bogota route. Manila 2 red: low prio. Red: bob 2/5 (Osaka, Sydney) — never burn red as fuel; 3 more red draws needed. Yellow eradication completes with Santiago/Lima/LA sweep.
#98 bob: {"tag":"directFlight","to":"Bogota"}
#99 alice says: Plan confirmed and locked — nothing to add from my side. Standing by for my turn: dispatcherJump onto Bob's pawn at Atlanta, then Discover Cure (black).
#100 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Miami"}
#101 bob: {"tag":"driveFerry","to":"Atlanta"}
#102 bob: {"tag":"treatDisease","color":"blue"}

— turn 12 (alice's turn) —

#103 bob says: Alice — before you jump: consider playing GOVERNMENT GRANT first (free, no action): build the station anywhere, then jump onto me at Atlanta and cure black (2 actions). Best GG target by my read: SAN FRANCISCO — it's 3-blue, in the infect discard, and a station there lets you shuttle-adjacent the west-blue sweep (SF treat) AND gives red/blue later legs a west anchor. Runner-up: Santiago (kills the yellow cluster + eradicates yellow en route next sweep). Your call — either is fine, cure first, grant wherever you pick. I also drew HCMC(red): red 3/5, 2 draws to go. Note Riyadh/Kolkata black become AUTO-CLEARS for me the moment black cures — I'll sweep them starting my next turn.
#104 alice says: Bob — cure + sweep sequence locked: I jump to you, cure BLACK (2 actions), then dispatch you Baghdad→Riyadh — your medic presence auto-clears its 3 black cubes the instant you arrive (black cured). Riyadh is the TOP of the infect deck (Lima, Riyadh, HK, Shanghai, Seoul) — it would outbreak after your turn without this. 4th action: I nudge you to Karachi; your next turn: drive Delhi→Kolkata (auto-clears 3 black on arrival), treat Manila 2→1, spare action free. YOUR TURN EVENTS: play GOVERNMENT GRANT free — build the station in SAN FRANCISCO (blue anchor; lets me shuttle there for blue treats without burning my SF card, and you can shuttle-adjacent the west). After auto-clears, black cards incl. your Delhi are pure fuel — burn freely for flights. Blue collector stays me; red stays you (3/5, 2 draws to go).
#105 alice pins: PLAN v13 (black cure landing now; 2 cures done after this): DONE: yellow, black (this turn). Alice holds SF+Essen(blue) = 2/5 blue — 3 more blue draws; Bob 3/5 red — 2 more red draws. Cures happen at Atlanta station (shuttle via GG station once built). (1) Alice T-now: jump→Atlanta, cure black, dispatch Bob to Riyadh (auto-clear 3 black — it's top of infect deck) + nudge to Karachi. (2) Bob next turn: PLAY GG → station at SAN FRANCISCO (free, no card), then Karachi→Delhi→Kolkata (auto-clear 3 black on arrival), treat Manila 2→1. (3) Alice next turns: shuttle/charter to SF zone, treat SF 3 blue + Milan 3 blue (blue uncured, 1/treat — Milan via Istanbul if epidemic reshuffles threaten); keep SF+Essen cards for blue cure (5 blues at a station → cure blue). (4) Bob red: keep every red card (Osaka/Sydney/HCMC), collect 2 more red draws, cure red at Atlanta when 5/5. (5) Bob yellow sweep: Santiago 3 + Lima 2 + LA 1 (cured, one treat each) on southward legs → yellow ERADICATED. Manila 2 red low prio. Black cards are pure fuel now.
#106 alice: {"tag":"dispatcherJump","pawn":"alice","toPawn":"bob"}
#107 alice: {"tag":"discoverCure","color":"black","cards":["Cairo","Riyadh","Karachi","Kolkata","Baghdad"]}
#108 bob says: Locked. Government Grant → San Francisco it is. One refinement for after your Karachi nudge: on my turn, Delhi→Kolkata walk auto-clears Kolkata, then Manila 2→1 treat, and with spare actions I'd rather push the YELLOW ERADICATION home — if you can GG-build Santiago instead (or second station later), my Lima→Santiago one-treats finish yellow off entirely; otherwise LA/Lima yellow clears happen on my Bogota leg. Also: after black cure, confirm you keep Cairo/Riyadh/Karachi/Kolkata/Baghdad as flight fuel for your SF/Milan legs — your set burns at the cure, so all those cards free up simultaneously. Ready for the jump.
#109 alice says: Bob — BLACK CURED ✓ (2/4). GG: I'll do Santiago as the second station when you play the GG (your hand, your turn — SF station first per plan, then tell me if you'd rather I put GG#2 wherever; Santiago kills the yellow cluster). Your sequencing agreed: Delhi→Kolkata auto-clear, Manila treat, yellow sweep home. Fuel note: my hand is now just SF+Essen(blue) — I burned all 5 blacks in the cure, so I have NO black fuel; use YOUR Delhi for flights. My 2 remaining actions this turn: dispatching you to Delhi (1 action, via your Delhi card = pure fuel) and then I stay put at Atlanta station to collect blue draws. Send me your GG call.
#110 alice: {"tag":"dispatcherMove","pawn":"bob","via":"directFlight","to":"Delhi"}
#111 alice: {"tag":"dispatcherMove","pawn":"bob","via":"driveFerry","to":"Kolkata"}

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 #84, before command #85: San Francisco, Manila, Bangkok, Atlanta, Riyadh, Lima (top first).
After the revision #86, before command #87: San Francisco, Manila, Bangkok, Atlanta, Riyadh, Lima (top first).
After the refinement #91, before command #93: San Francisco, Manila, Bangkok, Atlanta, Riyadh, Lima (top first).

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

Before #98

Before command #98 by bob; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner bob.
alice (dispatcher) at Baghdad; hand 7: Cairo, San Francisco, Riyadh, Karachi, Kolkata, Baghdad, Essen
bob (medic) at Baghdad; hand 4: Delhi, Osaka, Bogota, Sydney
Stations: Atlanta.
Cures: blue none, yellow cured, black none, red none. Outbreaks 1/8; infection rate index 2.
Cube supply: blue 16, yellow 18, black 18, red 16.
Cities with 2 or more cubes: Atlanta blue×2; Riyadh black×3; Kolkata black×3; Milan blue×3; Lima yellow×2; San Francisco blue×3; Santiago yellow×3; Manila red×2.
Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Atlanta blue×2; Chennai red×1; Ho Chi Minh City red×1; Hong Kong red×1; Kolkata black×3; Lima yellow×2; Los Angeles yellow×1; Manila red×2; Milan blue×3; Riyadh black×3; San Francisco blue×3; Santiago yellow×3; Seoul red×1; Shanghai red×1; Sydney red×1.
Player deck 27 (epidemics left: 2); infection deck 41, discard 6.
Infection discard (public), oldest first: Kolkata, Jakarta, Milan, Santiago, San Francisco, Manila.
Removed from the game: infection cards Johannesburg; events none.
ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Bangkok, Atlanta, Riyadh, Lima, Hong Kong, Shanghai.
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 Bangkok, Atlanta (rate 2, top first); outbreaks 1 → 1.

Before #106

Before command #106 by alice; phase {"tag":"playerActions","remaining":4}; turn owner alice.
alice (dispatcher) at Baghdad; hand 7: Cairo, San Francisco, Riyadh, Karachi, Kolkata, Baghdad, Essen
bob (medic) at Atlanta; hand 5: Delhi, Osaka, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, event:governmentGrant
Stations: Atlanta.
Cures: blue none, yellow cured, black none, red none. Outbreaks 1/8; infection rate index 2.
Cube supply: blue 17, yellow 18, black 18, red 15.
Cities with 2 or more cubes: Riyadh black×3; Kolkata black×3; Milan blue×3; Lima yellow×2; San Francisco blue×3; Santiago yellow×3; Manila red×2.
Every city with a cube (alphabetical): Atlanta blue×1; Bangkok red×1; Chennai red×1; Ho Chi Minh City red×1; Hong Kong red×1; Kolkata black×3; Lima yellow×2; Los Angeles yellow×1; Manila red×2; Milan blue×3; Riyadh black×3; San Francisco blue×3; Santiago yellow×3; Seoul red×1; Shanghai red×1; Sydney red×1.
Player deck 25 (epidemics left: 2); infection deck 39, discard 8.
Infection discard (public), oldest first: Kolkata, Jakarta, Milan, Santiago, San Francisco, Manila, Bangkok, Atlanta.
Removed from the game: infection cards Johannesburg; events none.
ENGINE TRUTH, hidden from the seats unless a Forecast was played: top of the infection deck, top first: Riyadh, Lima, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Los Angeles.
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 Riyadh, Lima (rate 2, top first); outbreaks 1 → 2, cities that outbroke: Riyadh.

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

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