Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008.
Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates 2 to 4 players, each playing one of up to five possible specialists: (dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher or operations expert). The game is unlike most boardgames as the gameplay is cooperative, rather...
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Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008.
Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates 2 to 4 players, each playing one of up to five possible specialists: (dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher or operations expert). The game is unlike most boardgames as the gameplay is cooperative, rather than competitive. Through the combined effort of all the players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached.
The game board resembles a map of Earth, with the oceans indicated in blue shading, and the landmasses in dark green. Over this map, the approximate location of several large cities are labeled with colored circles, each containing a symbol that helps to identify that city as part of a group. The cities are thus divided roughly evenly by region into four groups:.red corresponds...
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