Gamehelppandemic

For tips on how to play pandemic, see Tips_pandemic

Actions

• Select from the actions listed below, up to 4 actions per turn.
• Role special abilities may change how an action works.
• Some actions involve discarding a card from your hand.

Movement

Drive / Ferry

• Move to a city connected to the one you are in.

Direct Flight

• Discard a City card to move to the city named on the card.

Charter Flight

• Discard the City card that matches the city you are in to move to any city.

Shuttle Flight

• Move from a city with a research station to any other city that has a research station.

Build a Research Station

• Discard the City card that matches the city you are in to place a research station there.
• 6 research stations may be built.

Treat Disease

• Remove 1 disease cube from the city you are in.
  • If this disease colour has been cured, remove all cubes of that colour from the city you are in.
• If the last cube of a cured disease is removed from the board, this disease is eradicated.

Share Knowledge

• You can do this action in two ways:
  1. give the City card that matches the city you are in to another player, or
  2. take the City card that matches the city you are in from another player.
• The other player must also be in the city with you.
  • Both of you need to agree to do this.
• If the player who gets the card now has more than 7 cards, that player must immediately discard a card or play an Event card.

Discover a Cure

• At any research station, discard 5 City cards of the same colour from your hand to cure the disease of that colour.
• Move the disease’s cure marker to its Cure Indicator.
• If no cubes of this colour are on the board, this disease is now eradicated.

After Your Actions

• Draw two city cards to your hand. There is a hand limit of 7 enforced at all times.
• Draw 2-4 cards (according to infection rate) from the top of the disease draw pile and place 1 disease cube on each city shown.
  • If the disease of that colour has been eradicated, no cube is placed there.

Additional Rules

Event Cards

• Event cards you draw may be used at any time (including in opponents' moves) except just when a card is about to be resolved.
• Playing an event card does not count as one of your four actions.

Epidemics

If you draw an epidemic from the city deck (4 epidemics in Introductory Mode, 5 in Standard, 6 in Heroic):

• Move infection rate marker to the right.
• Draw infection card from bottom of deck and place 3 disease cubes on the city shown.
• Reshuffle the infection discard pile (including the new card) and place on top of the infection draw pile.
• Do all this twice if you happened to draw two epidemic cards.

Outbreaks

If you would have to place a 4th disease cube of the same colour in a city, an outbreak occurs instead.

• The outbreak marker is moved forward 1 step.
• All cities connected to the one where the outbreak occurs gain 1 disease cube of the colour of the outbreak city.
  • Cities can therefore gain cubes of different colour.
• This can lead to chain reaction outbreaks.

Roles

Each player has one of these roles assigned at the beginning of the game:

Contingency Planner

• Take an Event Card from the Discard pile and place it on the Role Card.
• It doesn't count against the limit of 7 hand cards.

Dispatcher

• Move any pawn to a city containing another pawn OR Move another player's pawn as if it were their own.

Medic

• Remove all cubes of a colour when treating a city.
• For any cured disease:
  • Treats for free when entering city, and
  • prevents cubes/Outbreaks in their location.

Operations Expert

• Build a Research Station in their location without discarding a city card.
• Once per turn, move to any city from a Research Station, using any city card.

Quarantine Specialist

• Prevents Outbreaks and placement of disease cubes in their location plus all connecting cities.

Researcher

• May give any card to a player in same location (during either player's turn).

Scientist

• Can cure a disease by using only 4, not 5, cards of the same colour.

End of game

There is one way to win the game:

• Cure all 4 diseases.

There are three ways to lose the game:

• Having an eighth outbreak;
• Needing to place a disease cube on the board and there are no more cubes available;
• Needing to draw a city card and there are no more city cards available.