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title: "Pandemic Board Game"
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# Global outbreak simulation 2-4 players co-op action 60 min intense gameplay Pandemic Board Game

**Brand:** z-man games
**Price:** VT30136
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🌡️ Outbreaks won’t wait—neither should you! Master the pandemic before it masters you.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Pandemic Board Game by z-man games
- **How much does it cost?** VT30136 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Key Features

- • **Dynamic Role-Based Gameplay:** Choose from unique specialists like the Scientist or Quarantine Specialist to maximize your team’s strengths.
- • **Updated Edition with New Roles:** Experience fresh strategies with two new characters exclusive to this edition.
- • **Fast-Paced Cooperative Challenge:** Engage in a 60-minute race against escalating epidemics with unpredictable 'Epidemic!' cards.
- • **Boost Critical Thinking & Teamwork:** Perfect for professionals seeking a fun way to sharpen decision-making and collaboration skills.
- • **Strategic Global Crisis Management:** Lead your team to contain and cure four deadly diseases before time runs out.

## Overview

Pandemic by Z-Man Games is a critically acclaimed cooperative board game for 2-4 players, featuring a 60-minute gameplay where players act as disease-fighting specialists racing to cure four global plagues. This updated edition introduces new roles and challenges, combining strategic planning, teamwork, and fast-paced decision-making to deliver an immersive and educational experience.

## Description

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, A 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, A the Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist, A not available in earlier editions of the game.

Review: Great - Great game, kids love it
Review: Reliable vendor - Delivered quickly and product as expected. Reliable vendor. Thank you!

## Features

- For 2-4 Players
- 60 minute playing time
- Updated version of the popular co-operative game

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00A2HD40E |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,763 in Toys ( See Top 100 in Toys ) #132 in Board Games |
| Color | Multi-colored |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (23,071) |
| Date First Available | 4 February 2013 |
| Educational Objective(s) | Develop critical thinking, cooperative learning, and decision-making skills |
| Item model number | ZM7101 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 0 - 8 years |
| Material Type(s) | Paper |
| Number of Game Players | 2 to 4 players |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces | 1 |
| Product Dimensions | 30.48 x 21.84 x 4.32 cm; 907 g |
| Remote Control Included? | No |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Z-Man Games
- **Genre:** Strategy
- **Material:** Paper
- **Number of players:** 2 to 4 players
- **Theme:** Strategy

## Images

![Pandemic Board Game - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/711hemLdy-L.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: How does this compare with the original? Is the gameplay different?**
A: I've played both the old version and the new version dozens of time (though it's been a couple years since I played the first edition). Most of the changes are cosmetic in nature. The cards and board were redesigned (though they function exactly the same, except as noted). The nice wooden infection cubes have been replaced by a cheaper-feeling plastic. The cards and game look different, but are comparable in quality. The game play is basically the same, with a couple of minor changes. They buffed Light Green - the engineer (who can now charter flight from any city with a research station to anywhere on the board by discarding any card)  and White - the researcher (other players in the same city can now take any card from him, as opposed to him having to give the card during one of his turns). I think they also slightly changed Purple - the dispatcher. The buffs are very helpful, as the engineer was previously a virtually useless role. Now he can get anywhere easily by placing a city for one turn, then discarding any card to fly anywhere for his second turn, where he can heal two blocks immediately. This makes the researcher much more effective because she can spend all 4 moves getting to someone else, who can then spend their first three moves taking cards from the researcher and their fourth move developing a cure. The second edition also added 2 new roles: the contingency planner and the quarantine specialist. The former, as an action, can (one card at a time, and once per special event) redraw a special event card from the discard pile back into his own hand that doesn't count against his limit (i.e. He can have 8 cards as long as one of them is a redrawn special event). I typically don't play with the contingency planner because his role completely sucks. The quarantine specialist simply prevents new diseases from being placed in the city she is in, as well as all adjacent cities. If you have 2 adjacent cities with three blocks each, you can avoid a double-outbreak simply by moving her to either of the cities. We often use the dispatcher to move her around as needed. In summary, the second edition simply fixed a few annoying weaknesses of the engineer and researcher, replaced nice wooden cubes with cheap plastic ones, and added one fun new role. If your original version is still in working condition, don't buy a new game. Just print the new rules to buff the old roles. It's not worth a whole new board game just for the one role of quarantine specialist. If your old game is worn, get a new copy, but keep the wooden disease cubes.

**Q: What's the youngest age you'd recommend to play?**
A: The box says 8+, the Amazon description says 13-15. The expansions all are 13+, so maybe that's why Amazon is confused. We haven't played any of the expansions yet, but my 5yo and 8yo both love Pandemic. We got it shortly after the 5yo's birthday, and at first it was kind of frustrating at times when he'd insist on doing something completely illogical, but he's gotten better in the past half year. That said, he reads way above grade level, so 8+ is probably a better idea - you want the kid to be able to read the names of the cities, etc. I wouldn't buy the game if you only have kids under 8, unless they're profoundly gifted - we got it for the 8yo, and the 5yo just happened to be able to go along, but there are games that would be more suitable for his age - he isn't yet really able to strategize at the level needed for Pandemic. And really, saving the world can wait until the ripe old age of 8. ;)

**Q: How long does a typical game of Pandemic take to play?**
A: I think 45-60 minutes with a strong team who knows the game is a good estimate.  The first games with new players will take a while, even on easy, because there are a lot of little nuisances and details to learn... and if you're playing with a few different strong personalities, you may loose time to discussing the best tactics and strategies. When my husband and I play, 45 minutes is a good estimate, but we also work well together and know the rules of the game.

**Q: Would like a good two person game.  Is this it?**
A: After 7 plays as a 2-player game, I'd say it plays very well. I'd also say that I disagree with those who say it is harder as a 2-player game.  Each player has more influence over decisions and potentially twice as many turns as they would get in a four-player game.  So in some ways it could be a tad bit easier.  The amount of epidemic cards are more of a factor in the difficulty than how many players are in the game.  The infections and epidemic cards will come out at a rate irrelevant to how many players are in the game.  And one of the game-ending triggers is when all of the player cards are drawn - and that is based on how many turns are taken, regardless of how many different players are taking turns.  The disadvantage of playing a 2-player game would be missing out on larger group discussions and interaction.   But it's really not a big deal.  You will still find this game a great value if you play 2-players 90% of the time and 4-players 10% of the time.  That is the situation I am in and I recommend the game.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great
*by F***S on 27 July 2021*

Great game, kids love it

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reliable vendor
*by S***S on 12 October 2019*

Delivered quickly and product as expected. Reliable vendor. Thank you!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by R***E on 28 July 2017*

Pandemic - in my opinion - is the best board game ever published. It takes just the right amount of time to play (30-60 minutes), is cooperative so everyone playing is a team trying to beat the game which makes the social dynamic more engaging than a competitive game, the mechanics are basic and easy to learn, and the game is different each time you play. I have yet to find another game that borders on so close to perfect as this one. It doesn't even need the expansions (except for On the Brink - you have to get that just for the petri dishes for your disease cubes) which to me complicate an already precisely balanced game. I cannot praise this game enough, and everyone I've played it with has gone out and bought their own copies.

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