Base game

Pandemic

Four diseases, one team, and a world map turning red.

Players: 2–4 players
Time: 45 min

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The feel of it

Why it lands at the table

Pandemic is the co-operative game that made co-operative games popular. The players are a team of specialists, a medic, a scientist, a dispatcher and others, trying to cure four diseases spreading across the world.

Everyone wins or loses together, so the table talks through every turn. Infections land on cities, outbreaks chain into neighbours, and epidemic cards arrive at the worst moments.

What people remember is the last turn: one cure left, the deck almost empty, and the whole team agreeing on the move that just gets there.

The rules, briefly

How it plays

01
Each player takes a role with a special ability.
02
On your turn take four actions: move, treat disease, build research stations, share cards, discover cures.
03
Draw two player cards, which may include epidemics.
04
Infect cities by drawing from the infection deck; too many cubes cause outbreaks.
05
Cure all four diseases to win; too many outbreaks, cubes or an empty deck lose.

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