2008 · Medical
Pandemic
Players take on specialized roles in a cooperative effort to stop multiple deadly outbreaks across a world map. On each turn a player spends actions to move between cities, treat infections, build research stations, or share knowledge with teammates while using cards to perform powerful effects. A player deck supplies city cards and occasional Epidemic cards that increase infection rates, while a separate infection deck models the regular spread of disease. Roles have unique abilities that shape strategy, and the team wins by discovering cures for all four diseases before outbreaks or the card decks cause defeat.
- Players
- 2–4 best 3
- Playing time
- 45 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 2.4 / 5
About the game
- Design
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Expansions
See them in Ludoya
Pandemic: On the Brink2009
Pandemic: In the Lab2013
Pandemic: State of Emergency2015
Pandemic: Promo Roles2015
Pandemie: Uitbreiding "De Generalist"2009
Pandemic: Survival Promos – Crisis Mitigator/Relocation Specialist2016
Pandemic: Gen Con 2016 Promos – Z-Force Team Member/Game Convention2016
Pandemic: Isolation2013
Pandemic: Government Shutdown2014
Pandemic: Teacher Promo Card2021
Pandemic: Solo Rules2024Photos from Ludoya tables
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Full stats in Ludoya- 1,967
- Plays logged
- 1,159
- Players
- 52m 11s
- Average play
- 730
- In collections
- 32
- On wishlists
- 2
- Pre-ordered
7.4/10
from 314 Ludoya reviews
By player count
Mestremuten5.0 Rating: 3/5 Production value: 2/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1
Played it 3 times
Oscaarz9.1 This is a great and awesome game! I know playing this game while real Pandemic is still on becomes a funny thing! I have a love for this Coop-game. Go check out the legacy series of this game!
First impressions · 2 plays
Iván Sanin7.5 Clásico. Juego cooperativo donde intentaremos parar la expansión de distintos virus por el planeta. Me encanta la mecánica de expansión de los virus. Muy ajustado, siempre es difícil ganar y se convierte en un reto. Si engancha mucho al grupo, la versión Legacy puede que sea la mejor. En nuestro caso, con esta nos conformamos.
Played it 12 times
Rules questions
Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.
If I Treat Disease in a city where that disease is cured, do I remove one cube or all of them?
If a disease has been cured, the Treat Disease action removes all cubes of that color from the city in a single action; if removing the last cube eradicates the disease, flip its cure marker to the eradicated side (page 4).
When an outbreak happens, can the same city outbreak again during the same infection resolution?
A city that has already had an outbreak while resolving the current Infection card does not outbreak again as part of that same resolution; chain-reaction outbreaks still occur in connected cities and each outbreak advances the Outbreaks marker (page 7).
Can I give any city card to another player if we're both in the same city, or must it match the city we're in?
Normally you may only give or take the City card that matches the city you are both in, but the Researcher role may give any City card from her hand to another player she is with (pages 4, 8).
What exactly happens when I draw an Epidemic card?
Immediately do these steps in order: Increase the infection rate, draw the bottom Infection card and place three cubes there (or cause an outbreak), then reshuffle the Infection Discard pile and place it on top of the Infection Deck (page 6).
If there are fewer than two Player cards to draw on my turn, do we reshuffle the discards or lose?
If, as you are about to draw, there are fewer than two cards left in the Player Deck, the game ends and the players lose — do not reshuffle the discards to form a new deck (page 6).
Do we have to eradicate all diseases to win, or is curing them enough?
You win as soon as cures for all four diseases are discovered; eradicating diseases is not required to win (page 7).
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