Pandemic is the collaborative par excellence. The players win or lose all together.
The world is in danger! Players are part of a disease control team and must work together to develop cures and prevent outbreaks before 4 deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black and Red) contaminate humanity.
Players win if:
- Cures for all 4 diseases have been discovered. As? By positioning yourself in a research center and discarding 5 city cards of the color of the disease from your hand.
Players lose if even one of these conditions occurs:
- 8 outbreaks occur (panic breaks out on a global scale),
- Not enough Disease Cubes remain when required (a disease spreads excessively),
- There are not enough Player Cards left when needed (your team has run out of time).
Each player plays a specific role, equipped with special abilities that will improve the team's chances of success. Throughout the game, players will plan their moves to best optimize. They will remove disease cubes, move from city to city, exchange cards, trying to stem the inevitable spread of the four diseases.
The difficulty level can be modulated based on the number of Epidemic cards that are inserted into the deck.