Year: 2008
Players: 2–4
Play time: 45min
Min age: 8+
Weight: 2.39
BGG rating: 7.51
BGG rank: #174
Best with: 4

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 7.0

Michael Redlich
Rating: ★ 7.0

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Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 7.51 and BGG rank #174.
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Recommended player counts include 1, 2, 3.

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-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-the Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist-not available in earlier editions of the game. Pandemic is the first game in the Pandemic series.

Mechanics

Hand ManagementMulti-Use CardsSet CollectionTagsVariable Player PowersVariable Set-upSimulationTradingSolo / Solitaire GameCooperative GameAction PointsPoint to Point MovementEventsChainingContracts

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Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Some necessary text - easily memorized(282 of 344 votes)

Sub-rankings

Family Game Rank#32
Strategy Game Rank#181

Videos

Video language

YouTube9

Instructional9

BoardGameGeek11

Review4

Session3

Unboxing1

Pandemic - Unboxing & Reboxing - What's in the Box?
BoardGameGeek · broseygames
English · Curated source

Humor1

It's never ok to move other player's pawn in #Pandemic ?. A boardgame parody@BoardGamingRamblings
BoardGameGeek · JetSkiPopper
English · Curated source

Other2

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 5 links · 1 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 2008