Pandemic Board Game (Base Game) | Family Board Game | Board Game for Adults and Family | Cooperative Board Game | Ages 8+ | 2 to 4 players | Average Playtime 45 minutes | Made by Z-Man Games

If you love to play games you MUST have this!!! Everyone from my mom to my brothers friends love this game. It has different playing challenges so if you have someone new to games then you can start them off easy. But the game is so addicting they will soon onto the difficult level. On Christmas Eve we were up all night playing because we were determined to win the difficult level. This has quickly become one of my favorites because not only is it challenging it is fairly quick to play. Usually games this frustrating can last for hours. Pandemic, on the other hand, doesnt last more than an hour and it flies by. I also love that it is a cooperative game. It was my first time playing a cooperative game and if was so much fun planning and scheming with everyone. This is absolutely a must for everyones game collection. It will not disappoint!

This game is great we have so much fun just when you think your going to win an outbreak happens and throws everything to the wind you really have to work together to beat the pandemic

Best gift ever and very easy to understand how to play

All you need to know is: Pandemic is a great game! But since that wont suffice for most of you let me explain why it is a great game. 1. This is a cooperative game: set your egos aside next game night and work as a team to rid the world of 4 terrible diseases. The game is designed to create conversation to decide when to execute each action and to determine which character needs to be sent where. Its a great way to openly problem solve among friends and come up with the best solution to a problem. If nothing else, it gets you to think and to see how others solve problems. 2. Strategy is key: this aint yo mommas board game of rolling dice and reading cards; you gotta think, you gotta plan, you gotta strategize. The game landscape is constantly shifting and plans need adjusting at the end of every turn. The gameplay can drastically change and demands that strategies are adjusted. While players rely on a bit of luck, the gameplay focuses more on players ability to adjust to the changing environment rather than how lucky the players are. 3. Varying difficulties: very cleverly the developers built in varying difficulties to the gameplay without introducing expansion packs or modified rules. The difficulty comes from the number of outbreak cards starting the game (I swear this makes sense when playing). This allows players to tone up or down the difficulty by keeping or excluding outbreaks to suit their skill level. Its a great way to introduce new players to the game and challenge veteran players. 4. Replay-ability: the best part of this game is how much replay-ability there is. Nearly every game starts with a totally different landscape based on changes to the disease hot spots and the character selection. Since every game starts differently no standard stratagem can be developed or used. These changes force players to solve problems in different ways and focus on problem areas as needed instead of formulaically. I would recommend this game for kids of all ages. It is heaps of fun and also makes you think. This could be a great problem solving game for young adults and has the added benefit of collaborative instead of competitive gameplay.

Great game for cooperative play! We have played with both 2 and 4 players and each time had its own set of challenges. Playing with 4 people seemed to required a little more necessary strategy, but playing with 2 players made the game go a little quicker. Best recommendation is to read the entire instruction manual once before playing and keep it on hand the first couple rounds you play.

I have this on andriod too and I even played the legacy of this and I have to say its a big learning curve at first but once you get the hang of it you and your friends will never wanna stop playing :)

This game is awesome because you have to work collectively to save world. We are a game playing family and sometimes things get intense. After several times playing Pandemic it has become a favorite. The game is a combination of luck, strategy, cooperation, and more luck. You start by placing colored cubes representing diseases across a world map and randomly assigning jobs to each player. The object is to control and eradicate the diseases before they take over the world. NOT as easy as it sounds. The different players have different abilities based on their specialized jobs so it takes a cooperative plan to contain and wipe the different diseases out. Everyone wins or everyone loses. One minute you have everything under control and the next card flipped causes a chain reaction and a plague and you need to come up with a completely new game plan. Exciting to the end (which is usually an hour) so whether you see your plague as a disease or as a zombie attack you had better think fast because...everyone wins, OR everyone loses!

This is a game that requires you to plan and think ahead, much like a game of chess. Its also co-operative, so instead of working against each other, each player must work together toward a main goal of curing each disease. Each game is new and exciting with all the different Hero cards which have different skills to help you out during your turns. Im not entirely sure if younger kids (under 12) might be able to fully understand and appreciate this game because there really is a lot of strategy involved. But if youre playing to teach those skills, this would be the perfect game to use.

If you think competitive games will make you hate your best friends, wait til you try a cooperative game. We only played 2 rounds and none of us want to ever speak again. That said, I think its a great game if you can find some lelvel-headed people to play with.

We love this game so much! My BF and I play all the time. It’s hard to find co-op board games but this one is literally done perfectly!