Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out. Players must work together, playing to their characters’ strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks.
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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 |
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BASE GAME AND EXPANSION in this box Pandemic: On the Brink Expansion Expansion Box Signed by Designer: Matt Leacock
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Rating after watching 1 game and playing 2. Fantastic! Easy to learn, compelling, fun, co-operative without 1 player dominating, great balance, excellent ability to make the game more difficult, edge of the seat tension, "we'd have won if only.....", quick to play, "lets play again"-ness, cheap, cheering on the viruses! What more could you want in a boardgame?
100pcBlade
I'm not a big fan of co-operative games. This is one of the best (and has a very clever card recycling mechanism which keeps the pressure on the players) but it's still a co-operative game