From designer Matt Leacock, Pandemic is a cooperative game of teamwork where an elite team must work together to keep four deadly diseases at bay. Assemble your team to discover the cure, stop the spreading diseases, and avert a global disaster. Celebrate a decade of curing diseases with the game that started it all. This beautifully-rendered anniversary edition of Pandemic includes a custom metal box, all-new art with a vintage aesthetic, large ID cards, plastic figures, and plenty of wooden pieces. Can you save humanity?
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In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand.
The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, or build a research station. A deck of cards provides the players with these abilities, but sprinkled throughout this deck are Epidemic! cards that accelerate and intensify the diseases’ activity. A second, separate deck of cards controls the "normal" spread of the infections.
Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy to mesh with their specialists’ strengths in order to conquer the diseases. For example, the Operations Expert can build research stations which are needed to find cures for the diseases and which allow for greater mobility between cities; the Scientist needs only four cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal five—but the diseases are spreading quickly and time is running out. If one or more diseases spreads beyond recovery or if too much time elapses, the players all lose. If they cure the four diseases, they all win!
The 2013 edition of Pandemic includes two new characters—the Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist—not available in earlier editions of the game.
Pandemic is the first game in the Pandemic series.
| Ages | 8+ |
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| Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Cooperative Play, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Player Powers |
| Play Time | 45m |
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Publisher | (Unknown), Brain Games, Devir, Filosofia Éditions, Gém Klub Kft., Hobby Japan, HomoLudicus, Jolly Thinkers, Kaissa Chess & Games, Lacerta, Lautapelit.fi, Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd, MINDOK, Nordic Games GmbH, Paladium Games, Quined White Goblin Games, Stratelibri, White Goblin Games, Z-Man Games, Inc., Zhiyanjia, Взрослые дети, Albi, Asmodee, Asterion Press, Galápagos Jogos, Korea Boardgames co., Ltd., Pegasus Spiele, Rebel, Siam Board Games, Wargames Club Publishing, Z-Man Games |
| Designer | Matt Leacock |
| Theme | Medical |
1awesomeguy
My favourite co-op game. It is fun and quick. You can play with two or up to four. Technically, you can even play with five (without the expansion), but the game gets much much harder.
aaronph
With the On the Brink expansion, this is a wonderful game. Without it, it is still pretty good. My rating is for with the expansion.
1welligr
Save the world from 4 deadly outbreaks. This is a co-operative game. Find the cure and play against the game. It has increasingly difficult setup options. 1-4 players.