Pandemic

Designer: Matt Leacock

Publisher: Z-man Games

Number of Players: 2-4

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Recommended Age: 8+

Mechanisms: 
Action Point Allowance System
Cooperative Play
Hand Management
Point to Point Movement
Set Collection
Trading
Variable Player Powers

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.  Taking a unique role within the team, players must plan their strategy to mesh with their specialists' strengths in order to conquer the diseases.  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 or not available in earlier editions of the game.

Recommended 116 Standard card sleeves.