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May 1, 2018·How to play·08:46·0·Watch on YouTube

How to play Pandemic

Triple S Games

Triple S Games

Watch “How to play Pandemic,” a how-to-play guide for Pandemic from Triple S Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Triple S Games on YouTube:

Learn the rules to the board game Pandemic quickly and concisely - This visually rich video has no distractions, just the rules. To setup the game, check out this video: https://youtu.be/F_IOnibTclc To learn more about character roles, check out this video: https://youtu.be/9_3tBbwbcT4 Don't own the game? amazon.com - https://amzn.to/3eZp5qK amazon.ca - https://amzn.to/3elAbKU amazon.uk - https://amzn.to/3RPVjqk amazon.es - https://amzn.to/3RP1VFB amazon.de - https://amzn.to/3fWOOoD amazon.fr - https://amzn.to/3fXSKW7 amazon.it - https://amzn.to/3fVqnrI amazon.nl - https://amzn.to/3fYgkCc amazon.se - https://amzn.to/3MiHyzr amazon.pl - https://amzn.to/3RNRUs3 amazon.com.au - https://amzn.to/3XFgeQU amazon.co.jp - https://amzn.to/3WHOB8t (As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases) RULES: Each player’s turn is divided into 3 parts. First: Do up to 4 actions. Second: Draw 2 player cards. Third: Infect cities. After a player has finished infecting cities the player on their left goes. Your matching colored pawn represents your location on the board and is the pawn you are allowed to move on your turn. During the actions part of your turn you may do and combination of these 8 actions as many times as you like, with each one used only counting as 1 action: Drive or Ferry: Move your pawn to a city connected to it by a white line. Take special note that the board is connected on the right and left sides by white lines that pawns can travel. Direct Flight: Discard a card from your hand to move your pawn to the city discarded. Charter Flight: Discard the city card that matches the city your pawn is in to move to any city. Shuttle Flight: Move your pawn from any city with a research station in it to any other city that also has a research station in it. Build a research station: Discard the city card from your hand that matches the city you are in and place a research station there. If all 6 research stations are already on the board, take any research station from anywhere on the board to use. Treat disease: Remove 1 disease cube from the city you are in and place it in the supply on the side of the board. If the disease has been cured, remove all of the cubes of that color instead. If the last cube from a cured disease is removed from the board, flip the vial to its eradicated side. If there are cubes from several cured diseases in a city, you must still Treat the Disease once for each cured color to remove these cubes. Removing the last cube of a disease that is not cured has no effect. Share Knowledge: Give the city card in your hand that matches the city you are in to another player or you may take the city card in another player’s hand that matches the city you are in and put it in your hand. However, both players must be in the same city and both must agree to do this. If the player who gets the city card now has more than 7 cards, that player must immediately discard 1 card or play an event card. Discover a cure: When you are at any research station, discard 5 city cards of the same color from your hand to cure the disease of that color, the color of the city does not need to match the color of the disease you are curing. Move the disease cure marker to the cure indicator. When a disease is cured, its cubes remain on the board and new cubes can still be placed during epidemics or infections. If no cubes of its color are on the board, the disease is now eradicated. Flip the cure marker over to its eradicated side. Eradicating a disease is not needed to win. After doing actions you draw the top 2 cards together from the player deck. If, as you are about to draw, there are fewer than 2 cards left in the Player Deck, the game ends immediately and everyone loses. Otherwise, keep the cards and continue with your turn. If your draws include any Epidemic cards, immediately do the following steps in order: Increase: Move the infection rate marker forward 1 space on the Infection Rate Track. Infect: Draw the bottom card from the Infection Deck. Put 3 disease cubes of that color on the named city, unless its disease color has been eradicated. If the city already has cubes of this color, do not add 3 cubes to it. Instead, add just enough cubes so that it has 3 cubes of this color and then an outbreak of this disease occurs in the city, more on outbreaks later. Discard this card to the Infection Discard Pile. Whenever you cannot place the number of color cubes needed on the board, because the needed color supply is out, the game immediately ends and everyone loses. The last cube from any disease color supply pile may be placed onto the board without loss, it is only when you cannot place cubes on the board that you lose. 3. Intensify: Shuffle the cards in the Infection Discard Pile and place them on top of the Infection Deck. It is rare, but possible, to draw 2 Epidemic cards at once. In this case, do all three steps above once and then...

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2008·Matt Leacock

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Some reviews. Pandemic is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 35 reviews, 17 how-to-play guides, 19 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 14 other videos.

2 - 4 players
45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Pandemic, from BoardGameGeek:

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.

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Matt Leacock

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Josh Cappel, Christian Hanisch, Régis Moulun, Chris Quilliams, Tom Thiel

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