Explanatory diagrams
This section puts together all the actions described in the rules and shows how they fit togther during a normal turn and a double turn -where some actions can only happen once. The table summarizes all the actions and below you may find some diagrams that explain the main actions in full detail.
| Phase |
Plague action
(linked to steps) |
Plague action
(linked to turn)
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| 1. Placing a tile |
Step 1A. Begin turn. (C) Eradicating outbreaks |
Spreading the plague is not allowed before the tile is placed. If the tile placed is not a plague source, the active player will be able to spread the plague at any time during the rest of the turn [note 1]
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| Step 1B. Draw a tile
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| Step 1C. Place a tile. (A) Adding an outbreak (a plague source cancels spreading the plague action) |
Any time (once during turn):
- (B) Spreading the plague (if no plague source was placed) [note 2]
- Fleeing the plague [note 3] (choosing a follower or a special figure –builder, pig or shepherd along with its sheep tokens- placed on a tile)
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2. Placing a follower
(Move Wood) |
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| Step 2B-1. Placing a wooden follower (not allowed on plague source tile)
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| Step 2B-2. Placing a phantom (not allowed on plague source tile)
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| ...
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| 3. Scoring a feature |
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Notes:
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In order to avoid rules conflicts, spreading the plague is not allowed before you know if you didn’t draw a plague source tile with a valid placement; otherwise, you could place a flea and then place a plague source tile in the same turn. - As clarified by Christwart Conrad (8/2021)
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Once during a player’s double turn as per Georg Wild’s clarifications (11/2013) – As clarified by Christwart Conrad (8/2021), this may happen in the first part or the second part of a double turn unless a plague source is placed. A player may delay this action until the second part of their double turn after placing a non-plague tile, and later being unable to spread the plague due to placing a new plague source.
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Once during a player’s double turn as per Georg Wild’s clarifications (11/2013) – Confirmed by Christwart Conrad (8/2021)
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Diagram (A) - Adding an outbreak
Diagram (A) - Adding an outbreak: Each turn when placing a plague source tile in
1. Placing a tile (Step 1C)
Diagram (B) - Spreading the plague
Diagram (B) - Spreading the plague: Each turn with plague active except when placing a plague tile. No specific moment in turn sequence (but after
1. Placing a tile). No fleas allowed on plague source tiles, tiles with fleas, inside the cities of Carcassonne and Leipzig or the Wheel of Fortune
Diagram (C) - Eradicating outbreaks
Diagram (C) - Eradicating outbreaks: Each turn at the very beginning in
1. Placing a tile (Step 1A) when the plague is active (once in double turn)
