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Can I play an Event between the steps of an Epidemic?

The designer corrected the earlier rulings in 2013 and repeated this in 2019.

  • mleacock · Designer · 2013-01-16
  • mleacock · Designer · 2019-01-09
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2016-02-05
  • mleacock · Designer · 2009-01-04superseded
  • mleacock · Designer · 2013-01-16superseded
  • Pandemic rulebook · Rulebook · EVENT CARDS

Only Resilient Population, which is printed with that exception. Between drawing an Epidemic and finishing it, other Events must wait. Once the Epidemic is complete, any Event can be played before the Infect Cities step. Early 2008-2009 answers that treated each step as a separate window were corrected in 2013.

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