<p>An outbreak only occurs due to cubes of a single color:</p>

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  <p>If the city already has 3 cubes <strong>of this color</strong>, do not place a 4th cube. Instead, an outbreak of this disease occurs in the city (see Outbreaks below). </p>
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<p>And therefore a city can have up to three cubes of each color, not just three cubes overall:</p>

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  <p>As a result of outbreaks, a city may have disease cubes of multiple colors on it; up to 3 cubes of each color. This does not affect infections.</p>
</blockquote>

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2015-11-29T20:19:34.340Z
Thanks Jefromi!! This should help our win% (currently at 20%) lol
Kiko R.
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20%? Ouch! How many Epidemic cards are you putting in the player deck? You might want to take one out just to give you more of a sense of accomplishment :)
John
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<p>If we had a blue city with one black disease cube due to an outbreak and we pull that blue city card during epidemic infection phase, is it an outbreak? 
We thought that 3 was the max #of cubes one city can have (even if they are of different colors), but I just read one of the thread here that mentioned a city with 2 red cubes and 2 black cubes, total of 4 cubes in one city.</p>

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Different color cubes in one city
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# Different color cubes in one city

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-29)

If we had a blue city with one black disease cube due to an outbreak and we pull that blue city card during epidemic infection phase, is it an outbreak?
We thought that 3 was the max #of cubes one city can have (even if they are of different colors), but I just read one of the thread here that mentioned a city with 2 red cubes and 2 black cubes, total of 4 cubes in one city.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-29. Score: 14 | Accepted answer

An outbreak only occurs due to cubes of a single color:

> If the city already has 3 cubes **of this color**, do not place a 4th cube. Instead, an outbreak of this disease occurs in the city (see Outbreaks below).

And therefore a city can have up to three cubes of each color, not just three cubes overall:

> As a result of outbreaks, a city may have disease cubes of multiple colors on it; up to 3 cubes of each color. This does not affect infections.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks Jefromi!! This should help our win% (currently at 20%) lol  
> **username_2**: 20%? Ouch! How many Epidemic cards are you putting in the player deck? You might want to take one out just to give you more of a sense of accomplishment :)  

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