Questions tagged [pandemic]
Pandemic is a cooperative game in which players work together to combat the spread of four deadly diseases before they overwhelm the planet. Each player brings a distinct skill to bear on the problem; only through careful teamwork can they ultimately save the Earth! 2-4 players, 45-60 minutes.
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Pandemic: Field Operative plays New Assignment
If the Field Operative has a block on their card from their special ability, what happens to that block if they were to play New Assignment?
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Resilient Population Card in Pandemic
Once a city card is removed from the infection deck, do you still place infection cubes on that city?
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Use of Researcher in Pandemic?
Can the Researcher transfer cards to another player on her very first turn, in other words, while still in Atlanta? Seems like this gives too much of a head start at beginning of game.
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Pandemic - reduced rule-set for beginners
I have recently started playing pandemic, and was overwhelmed by the amount of rules.
Is there a reduced set of rules, easier to learn and remember but still fun, that can be used by beginners until ...
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Contingency planner question
If it's my turn and I am the contingency planner, can I use a special event card then use an action to put the card on contingency planner then use that event again in the same turn?
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Epidemic infections
After drawing an epidemic card and infecting the bottom card, do you still need to then infect the number of cities according to the infection rate? Or do you skip the "infect cities" step?
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Can I begin a turn when there is only 1 card remaining in the player deck? [duplicate]
If my role (let's say the Scientist) has 4 cards of the same color but was not able to get to a research station. And, let's say a different player (the Operations guy) lands on the same city as the ...
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Medic abilities
The medic card says that they can “remove ALL cubes of one colour when doing Treat Disease”.
One interpretation from the rules is that Treat Disease applies only to the city you are in. However ...
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Pandemic - Can an action be performed by different players during action phase?
In Pandemic, can an action be performed by different players during action phase, by using Funded Event cards?
For example:
"Flexible Aid Package" allows a. player to perform 1-3 extra actions (by ...
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In Pandemic, why take the extra step of eradicating a disease after you've cured it?
I understand that you need to cure all four diseases to win the game.
But the next step beyond curing a disease is eradicating it. Why do this? After you cure a disease, how are you helped by going ...
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How do you eradicate a disease? [duplicate]
What are ways you can have a disease eradicated?
Is it if you get rid of all the cubes or do you have to find a cure first?
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Does the medic remove cubes of the final cured disease (and thus eradicate it) before the game ends in a win?
Consider a scenario in which your group is doing absurdly well. Three diseases have been eradicated, and while the fourth disease — Red — has not yet been cured, it has been contained to a single city,...
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Can you eradicate a disease without finding a Cure first?
If you eradicate a disease in Pandemic without finding a cure first (ie remove all of one colour from the board) does it remain eradicated or can it still come back unless it has also been cured?
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How often do you have to move the outbreak marker in a chain reaction?
So if an outbreak occurs, I do move the outbreak marker one forward. If this triggers a chain reaction in one city, I move it forward once more. But what happens if I have several chain reactions? ...
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Pandemic 2012 or 2013 [duplicate]
I can't understand what is the difference between the Pandemic 2012 and 2013!
And do 2012 awards winning edition compatible with the expansions, or have a misprint issue?.
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In Pandemic, can the Coordinator's ability be used on another player's turn?
In Pandemic, one of the role is "coordinator" aka "dispatcher".
The rules say:
Move your fellow players' pawns on your turn as if they were your own.
Move any pawn to another city containing a ...
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Are the (player) cards in your hand supposed to be face up or not?
In playing Pandemic, I've always played where the cards in your hand are face up - i.e., visible to everyone. It is a cooperative game after all, and looking at another player's cards is easier than ...
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When a city outbreaks when using the Malaria Historical Disease, does it create one or two outbreak cubes?
In Pandemic Iberia, the rules for the Malaria historical disease state:
When infecting with black, whenever you would put 1 black cube into a city that has no black cubes in it, add 2 black cubes ...
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Is it advisable to play Legacy without having played Pandemic before?
My group and I are planning to start playing Pandemic Legacy.
While we haven't played Pandemic before, we're accustomed to decision making games like Dead of Winter or Small World.
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Are chain reaction outbreaks considered part of the original outbreak, in regards to "Containment Failure"
The Containment Failure emergency event says to place 2 cubes in each connected city when doing the next outbreak. If one of those connected cities already has 2 or 3 cubes, this triggers a chain ...
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Does the "Disease Zones Expand" emergency event only apply to cities with cubes of more than one color?
The Disease Zones Expand emergency event card states to
Add 1 cube of every non-matching color to each city with different colored cube(s).
Does this mean to add cubes to cities which have cubes ...
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Does the "CDC Planes Grounded" emergency event prevent the First Responder's ability?
The emergency event CDC Planes Grounded prevents players from moving by flight actions, as well as the Airlift event. The rules denote some specific exceptions such as the Dispatcher's ability, but do ...
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Does the Quarantine Specialist prevent Epidemic in connected cities?
So, by example, if the Quarantine Specialist is in London, and an Epidemic card is pulled and the affected city is New York (or another connected city), does the specialist cancel the placement of ...
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What constitutes a month?
What is a month in Pandemic Legacy? We are not sure.
We were new to Legacy version so we first played the game simply like Pandemic and are now ready to play first round as a Legacy version.
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Pandemic Special Orders
Can player A play the Special Orders card during player B's turn, allowing B to then move the character of A or some third party C, or can it only be used on player A's turn?
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Is "Sequencing Breakthrough" applied only to a single player
The Sequencing Breakthrough event indicates to place the card face up in front of "this player". The text, however, indicates the effect is applied on the "next cure".
All of the other long-term ...
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Does the Medic remove all cubes of cured diseases from the cities he travels through?
Does the Medic remove all cubes of cured diseases from the cities he travels through? Let's say he:
drives to one city (3 cured cubes)
drives to another city (2 cured cubes)
drives to another city (1 ...
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Lab challenge: Can a cure be tested multiple times
One of the steps for developing a cure in the "Lab challenge" is to test it. To do it a card of the cure color must be put on the test space and one disease cube of the color can be removed from any ...
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Is there an extension that converts regular Pandemic to Pandemic Legacy: Season 1?
I own Pandemic. I want to buy Pandemic Legacy: Season 1. It's quite expensive though and it seems that the game board looks the same.
Is there an extension to the Pandemic game that reproduces ...
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Is the Pandemic expansion "In the Lab" available in multiple languages?
I like to play Pandemic. I have bought the game and the expansion "On the Brink" in Dutch.
Is the expansion "In the Lab" available in multiple languages? Even in Dutch?
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Pandemic on the Brink expansion in different language than the main game
I have original Pandemic in my local language (Greek).
I want to buy Pandemic on the Brink but i cant find it in Greek.
I don't mind having mixed languages, but is there any other kind of problem ...
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In Pandemic, can the Containment Specialist remove more than 1 cube (without the action of treating) in a cured city?
In Pandemic, when there are 2 or 3 cubes of the same color on a cured city, does the Containment Specialist remove only 1 cube when he lands or all of the cubes (like when treating) since it is cured?
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Pandemic - how many epidemic cards?
We've got the 2013 edition of Pandemic, and the four of us are struggling! For instance, it says to prepare the Player Deck by using 4, 5, or 6 Epidemic cards for an Introductory, Standard, or Heroic ...
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Does the Medic need to wait until their next turn to remove cubes when another player researches a cure?
Say Medic got to Paris with 3 blue cubes but didn't have enough action to remove cubes, and a next player cures blue. Do we get to remove those blue cubes from Paris right away or do we wait till ...
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Pandemic chain reactions
During the infect cities step, if an outbreak occurs and causes a chain reaction, then another city card is pulled which was involed in the chain reaction, does the chain reaction occur a second time? ...
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Different color cubes in one city
If we had a blue city with one black disease cube due to an outbreak and we pull that blue city card during epidemic infection phase, is it an outbreak?
We thought that 3 was the max #of cubes one ...
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pandemic - can a city outbreak more than once per infect city turn?
Scenario:
- infection rate is 2
- Tehran currently has 2 cubes, Baghdad has 3 cubes
At end of turn, first infect card drawn is Baghdad. It outbreaks and adds a cube to Tehran so Tehran now has 3 ...
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Can Pandemic Legacy be played as "vanilla" Pandemic?
I've never played Pandemic, but thinking of getting the Legacy edition. Is it possible to play it without the legacy elements a few times first, and get an experience that is same or similar to that ...
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Number of Pandemic players?
Why is the original Pandemic set for up to 4 players when there are 5 role cards?
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Is this a win or loss?
Does a player need to complete a full turn (i.e. 4 actions, pickup, infect) if during the action portion the final disease was cured? I only ask because there was only 1 player card left in the deck ...
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How do I mitigate 'alpha playing' in Pandemic?
I don't quite like Pandemic for a simple reason.
Basically - because all players have the same knowledge, and same goal, I don't see the need to have multiple players; one person (the alpha player) ...
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Is the pandemic + on the brink expansion easier than the standard game? (no challenges)
The On the Brink expansion adds the following to the base game:
More event cards.
More roles.
It also adds the possibility of playing with 5 players and some extra challenges with their own set of ...
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Making the Contingency Planner more useful
The 2013 version of Pandemic added a new card, the Contingency Planner:
My gaming group has found this card very weak compared to the other roles for a couple of reasons:
It's ability to pull an ...
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How does infect step of epidemic interact with mutation?
As the current player pulled an epidemic card, we do the following steps: increase, infect, and intensify.
Infect: Draw the bottom card from the deck and put three cubes in that city. Discard ...
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In Pandemic can I immediately cure disease to return to the 7 card limit? [duplicate]
I have 7 cards in my hand 4 red, 3 yellow (both uncured diseases). I take a red card from another player in my city, can I immediately cure disease (there is a research center in my city) to enable me ...
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Pandemic: drawing player cards if already have 7 in hand
In the game Pandemic, after completing your 4 actions the next step is to draw 2 player cards. If already holding 7 in hand, does the rule force you to draw additional cards and subsequently discard (...
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How does the medic work in Pandemic - In the lab once a disease is cured?
The In the Lab expansion requires you to move cubes into dishes in order to cure diseases and beat the game.
Once a disease have been cured, the "automatic" ability of the Medic is that all of the ...
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In Pandemic, can yellow infect black, after black has been eradicated?
Let's say that black has been eradicated. Can yellow come into the black cities and infect?
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Can a disease be eradicated at the beginning of the game?
During the setup the players are required to draw 9 cards to infect the starting cities before the game starts. What if for example no red disease card is drawn? Is the red disease already eradicated ...
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Can you play an instant (airlift) to move quarantine specialist prevent infection after the infection card has been drawn?
We had a situation where in the infection stage, a city was drawn that was about to cause an outbreak.
To stop this, we used an instant to move out quarantine specialist there.
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