Pandemic: Iberia FAQ
67 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Board and Setup
- What do the arrows on the Pandemic: Iberia board mean?
- What counts as a region on the Pandemic: Iberia board?
- Do you discard your starting city card after choosing where to start?
- Can you build a hospital in your starting city on the first turn?
- Are the challenges optional, and can they be combined?
- Do Historical Disease effects apply to the nine cities infected during setup?
Actions
- Can a railroad be built on a dashed line?
- Which city card do you discard to Move by Ship?
- Do you need a card to travel to Palma de Mallorca?
- How many cubes does Treat Disease remove, even after the disease is researched?
- When a disease is researched, can cubes of that colour still be placed?
- Do I need a hospital of every colour to win?
- How many railroad tokens does it take to connect two cities?
- Can I treat cubes in different cities in the same turn?
- Who can do Purify Water, and which cards pay for it?
- After a disease is researched, can its cards purify any region on the board?
- Do players keep their hands face up?
Purification Tokens
- Does a purification token stop an outbreak in a city that already has 3 cubes?
- Must I remove a purification token when a cube would be placed next to one?
- How do purification tokens work against an Epidemic's Infect step?
- Where does a purification token go after it prevents a cube?
- Is there a limit to purification tokens in one region?
- Are purification tokens placed on cities or in regions, and whom do they protect?
- Who chooses the order in which outbreak and infection cities are resolved when a purification token could protect more than one?
Epidemics, Infections and Outbreaks
- Does an outbreak happen at 3 cubes in total, or when a colour would get a 4th cube?
- If a chain-reaction outbreak hits a city whose own Infection card comes later, does it outbreak again?
- When an Epidemic draws the bottom Infection card, is it discarded before the reshuffle?
- Can I play an Event card between the steps of an Epidemic?
- If I draw an 8th card, can I use it to research before discarding?
Event Cards
- When can One More Day be played?
- Who takes the City card when Second Chance is played?
- How does Government Mobilization work with cards, Sailor and Railwayman?
- Do the 3 railroads from Ring Railroads have to connect to each other?
- Where can Hospital Founding place a hospital, and does it remove cubes?
- Can Event cards be played on another player's turn?
- Do Mail Correspondence and Telegraph Message need the players in the same city?
- Can Science Triumph remove cubes from any region?
Roles
- Can the Rural Doctor remove a cube from an adjacent region if his own city has none?
- How far can the Rural Doctor reach with his extra cube?
- Can the Rural Doctor use his ability on every Treat Disease action?
- How many actions does the Rural Doctor need to remove a Typhus cube?
- Does the Sailor need a card to sail?
- Can the Railwayman pick up or drop off passengers along the way?
- Does the Railwayman's two-rail build cost one action, and must the rails continue in a line?
- What does the Nurse's prevention token stop?
- Must the Nurse's token move when she moves?
- Does the Agronomist's single token action need a card?
- Can the Royal Academy Scientist share what she sees on the top 3 cards?
Influx of Patients Challenge
- Do the Nurse's prevention token or purification tokens affect moving patients?
- Must the patient I move toward a hospital match the hospital's colour?
- How exactly is a hospital overrun resolved?
- If I build a hospital that moves an existing one, are cubes removed from the new city?
- Does building a hospital remove cubes in a normal game?
- How does a patient pick its route, and can it ride the railroad?
- How many patients move per turn?
- Can a patient hop from port to port?
Historical Diseases Challenge
- Do Yellow Fever cubes chain through port cities?
- How many Yellow Fever cubes go to neighbouring ports on an Epidemic?
- Does Yellow Fever apply to the port city that is outbreaking?
- Do moved cubes trigger Yellow Fever or Cholera in Influx of Patients?
- Can Typhus's two actions be split across turns, and do Events obey it?
- Does Malaria's extra black cube apply to cubes placed by outbreaks?
- How do purification tokens interact with Malaria's double cube?
- Does Malaria add extra cubes when an Epidemic infects a black city?
- With Typhus, can the Rural Doctor treat a red cube in his city and an adjacent city for one action?