Pandemic is a cooperative board game in which two to four players work together as members of a disease-control team, traveling to cities around a world map to treat infections, share knowledge and research cures before four simulated diseases spread out of control. It was designed by Matt Leacock and first published in 2008 by Z-Man Games. The game is widely cited as one of the titles that helped popularize the cooperative board game genre, in which all players win or lose together against the game itself rather than competing against one another, and it has since been released in several expansions and spin-off editions.
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Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008.
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Lead paragraph, publication statement
first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008
Introduction
Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008.
Lead paragraph, first sentence
a cooperative board game
Gameplay section, player count
The game accommodates two to four players
Introduction
Pandemic is considered one of the most successful cooperative games that have reached mainstream market sales, condensing the strategic play offered by earlier cooperative games, like Arkham Horror, into a shorter, more accessible game that can be played by a broader range of players.
Gameplay section, goal of the game
The goal of Pandemic is for the players, in their randomly selected roles, to work cooperatively to stop the spread of four diseases and cure them before a pandemic occurs.
Spinoffs section, Pandemic Legacy
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is a legacy version of the base game released by Z-Man Games, similar to Risk Legacy, in which the game added an ongoing storyline to the basic game, meaning the game board and rules change permanently after each game.
Lead paragraph, designer and first publication
Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008.
Lead section, design origins
Leacock began designing the game in 2004 after realizing that competitive games were making for strained evenings with his wife.
Infobox: playing_time
45 min
Infobox: random_chance
Moderate
Introduction
Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008. Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. Through the combined effort of all the players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached.
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- Playing Time: 45
- Designer: Matt Leacock
- Publisher: (Unknown)
- Publisher: ADC Blackfire Entertainment
- Publisher: Albi
- Publisher: Asterion Press
- Publisher: Boardgame Space
- Publisher: Brain Games
- Publisher: CoolPlay
- Publisher: Devir
- Publisher: Enigma (Bergsala Enigma)
- Publisher: Filosofia Éditions
- Publisher: Galápagos Jogos
- Publisher: Game Harbor
- Publisher: Gémklub
- Publisher: HaKubia
- Publisher: Hobby Japan
- Publisher: HomoLudicus
- Publisher: Jolly Thinkers
- Publisher: Kaissa Chess & Games
- Publisher: Korea Boardgames
- Publisher: Z-Man Games
- Game Category: Medical
- Game Category: Travel
- Game Mechanic: Action Points
- Game Mechanic: Chaining
- Game Mechanic: Contracts
- Game Mechanic: Cooperative Game
- Game Mechanic: Events
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Game Mechanic: Multi-Use Cards
- Game Mechanic: Point to Point Movement
- Game Mechanic: Set Collection
- Game Mechanic: Simulation
- Game Mechanic: Solo / Solitaire Game
- Game Mechanic: Tags
- Game Mechanic: Trading
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Game Mechanic: Variable Set-up
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
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