Containment Board Bonuses

Challenges aside, you do have some additional tools you can earn through Containment. Positioned around the Containment board are six face-down cards, the Containment cards. Containment cards are similar to Research cards, except they can be played during ANY player's Action phase and have some of the most powerful effects in the game. They are earned by Containing all 4 cubes of a given value.

When a Researcher Contains two of the four color cubes in a column, they may reveal the Containment card of the matching value.

This provides foreknowledge of the Containment card's power, but does not yet grant access to use it. However, when a Researcher Contains the fourth cube of a given value, the Containment card is placed near the Researcher's Lab, where it can be used by any Researcher during their Action phase, at a time of their choosing.

In a similar way, when a Researcher Contains a full row of colored cubes (values 1-6), they may choose a cube of any color from the Destroyed pile, roll it, and place it back on the Tesseract. A few extra cubes placed back on the Tesseract could well be the difference between victory and defeat.