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Pandemic

The Classic Cooperative Game of Global Disease Control
Series: Pandemic
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Brief Description
Your team of experts must prevent the world from succumbing to a viral pandemic.  2-4 Players  |  45 Mins  |  Ages 8+ Features: Action Points, Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection Theme: Medical Description: In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out... Read More

Players

2–4 players

Time to play

45–60 minutes

Age

8 years or older / Adults

Game type

Base Game

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Pandemic

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Your team of experts must prevent the world from succumbing to a viral pandemic. 

2-4 Players  |  45 Mins  |  Ages 8+

Features: Action Points, Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection

Theme: Medical

Description:

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.

Designer: Matt Leacock

Contents:

  • Rulebook
  • 1 Game Board
  • 7 Role Cards
  • 7 Pawns
  • 59 Player Cards (48 City Cards, 6 Epidemic Cards, 5 Event Cards)
  • 4 Reference Cards
  • 48 Infection Cards
  • 96 Disease Cubes (24 in 4 colors)
  • 4 Cure Markers
  • 1 Infection Rate Token
  • 1 Outbreaks Token
  • 6 Research Stations

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2015 Hungarian Board Game Award Nominee
  • 2015 Guldbrikken Special Jury Prize Winner
  • 2015 Guldbrikken Best Adult Game Nominee
  • 2014 Juego del Año Recommended
  • 2011 MinD-Spielepreis Winner
  • 2011 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee
  • 2011 Ludoteca Ideale Official Selection Winner
  • 2010 MinD-Spielepreis Nominee
  • 2010 Gra Roku Game of the Year Nominee
  • 2010 Australian Games Association Game of the Year
  • 2009 Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Nominee
  • 2009 Spiel des Jahres Nominee
  • 2009 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Experten Recommended
  • 2009 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
  • 2009 Lys Passioné Finalist
  • 2009 JoTa Best Family Board Game Nominee
  • 2009 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
  • 2009 Hra roku Nominee
  • 2009 Gouden Ludo Winner
  • 2009 Gouden Ludo Nominee
  • 2009 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee
  • 2009 Golden Geek Best Gamers' Board Game Nominee
  • 2009 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Winner
  • 2009 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
  • 2009 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
  • 2009 Games Magazine Best New Family Game Winner
  • 2009 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 3rd Place
  • 2009 Boardgames Australia Awards Best International Game Winner
  • 2009 Boardgames Australia Awards Best International Game Nominee
  • 2009 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee
  • 2008 Tric Trac Nominee
  • 2008 Tric Trac d'Argent
  • 2008 Meeples' Choice Award
  • 2008 JoTa Best Cooperative Board Game Winner
  • 2008 JoTa Best Cooperative Board Game Nominee
  • 2008 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee

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  • Pandemic
    Lizzy's Pick Lizzy's Pick
    Pandemic
    Your team of experts must prevent the world from succumbing to a viral pandemic.  2-4 Players  |  45 Mins  |  Ages 8+ Features: Action Points, Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection Theme: Medical Description: In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to...
    2–4 players
    $6800
    Elsewhere:
    $6999
    In Stock
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  • Pandemic - The Cure
    Pandemic - The Cure
    Roll dice to defeat four diseases threatening the world. 2-5 Players  |  30+ Mins  |  Ages 8+ Features: Cooperative Game, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck, Re-rolling and Locking, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tags, Variable Player Powers Theme: Dice, Environmental, Medical Description: In this dice-based version of Pandemic, curing diseases that plague humanity comes down...
    2–6 players
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Product Details

INFORMATION

Barcode: 681706711003

Publisher: Asmodee

Board game features: Award winning

Board game mechanics: Area control, Strategy, Tile-based

Color pattern: Multicolor

Gameplay skills: Strategic thinking, Tactical decision making, Pattern recognition

Recommended age group: 8 years or older, Adults

Toy game material: Cardboard, Plastic

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 1030g

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