Pandemic
How do Superbug bonus cards work: hand limit, other players' turns and Isolated Disease Samples?
The designer answered this in 2015 and 2024 and 2025.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-03
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-04-11
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2017-05-11
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2025-08-29
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2025-09-02
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-03-25
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-07
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2025-11-01
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2025-10-01
They count toward the hand limit and are not Events, so they can't be played on another player's turn. An Isolated Disease Sample counts as one City card of its colour for Discover a Cure or Share Knowledge in any city of that colour, but it is not a wild card for a specific city, and it can only be one of the other three cards for a purple cure. The Researcher can give one in any city, and Sample Delivery or Re-examined Research can move or recover it, but it cannot be discarded for movement or a quarantine.