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Does Patient Zero or Disease Hot Spot add a purple cube in the Superbug challenge?

The designer answered this in 2024.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-01
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-01

Yes when the drawn city already has purple cubes: both draw an Infection card directly, so the Superbug rule adds a purple cube. Patient Zero adds a purple cube only once, when its Infection card is drawn, not again each turn. Containment Failure and Logistics Failure can place purple through the infections they trigger.

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