Pandemic is the popular game about saving humanity from being wiped out by diseases.
In the roles of specialists, players travel around the world to stop disease outbreaks and find cures for the diseases in order to ultimately save humanity from extinction - but can you do it before the diseases take over? Only by cooperating can you win the game.
Pandemic is a cooperative strategy game where you do not fight against each other, but together against the game.
Pandemic won the gold piece's Special Prize in 2015 due to its timelessness within the genre.
Can you save the world before the diseases take over?
How to play Pandemic:
Turns go in order between players in a clockwise direction. The player who was last sick starts. When it is a player's turn, the player may, in the following order:
Take four actions.
Draw two cards into their hand.
Assume the role of the Infector. After the Infector phase, the turn continues.
The actions you can take are as follows:
Drive/Ferry: Move your piece to a city adjacent to the one you are in (the red lines on the game board).
Direct Flight: Use a card from your hand and move your piece to the city listed on the card. After use, the card is placed in the discard pile.
Charter Flight: Play a card with the name of the city you are in. You can now move to any city on the game board. After use, the card is placed in the discard pile.
Shuttle Flight: If you are in a city with a Research Station, you may move to another city that also has a Research Station.
Build a Research Station: Play a card with the name of the city you are in. Then place a Research Station in that city and place the card in the discard pile.
Discover a cure: If you are in a city with a Research Station, you can discard five cards of the same color in the discard pile to find a cure for the disease of that color.
Fight a disease: Remove a Disease cube from the city you are in.
Share knowledge: Take a card from one player and give it to another. Each card counts as an action. You must both be in the same city, and you may only transfer cards that have the city's name.
Move others' pieces:The Dispatcher may move others' pieces when it is their turn, but only if the other players allow them.
The game ends if:
A player is unable to place a Disease cube on the board because all of that color are in use.The players lose.
The eighth outbreak occurs. In lose.
There are not enough cards left in the Player Draw Pile for a player to draw cards.The players lose.
When the cure for all four diseases (blue, yellow, black, and red) is discovered. In win.