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When does Patient Zero add its cube, and is it part of Infections?

The designer answered this in 2015, 2019, 2024 and the rulebook describes the card.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-18
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-06-08
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-11-07
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-01-15
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-09-28

Before Infections each turn, not as part of the Infect step, and after the draw-two-cards step that follows your actions. One Quiet Night doesn't skip it (only Hinterlands infections are skipped). A fourth cube causes an outbreak as normal, and a quarantine marker or Quarantine Specialist blocks the cube.

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