Pandemic in Pandemic

 

Pandemic, the board game

Unlike other competitive board games, Pandemic is a cooperative board game that requires all the players to work together in preventing disease outbreaks and developing cures. It is a family strategy game for 2 to 4 players, 8 years of age or above, lasting for about an hour for each game. 

In the game, four different disease strains are threatening to destroy life. Players will move around the board and use their actions to cure these disease hotspots. In each turn, diseases will start developing in other cities or possibly get worse in those already infected. 

Each player assumes a role with different abilities, for example, medic, quarantine specialist, researcher, scientist, operations expert, dispatcher etc. Players need to balance keeping the illnesses under control, and at the same time, finding the cures. If they can find the cures for four diseases in time and keep the outbreaks under control, they become the winners. If not, they lose the game... Read the rest of this article >>

Dr. Pierre Chan