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Expansion for Pandemic

Pandemic: On the Brink

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Published
2009
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Well known (via base game)
Players
2–5
Play time
45 min
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Main mechanics

  • Co-operative
  • Hand management
  • Set collection
  • Trading & negotiation
  • Co-operative: Everyone wins or loses together against the game.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
  • Set collection: Scoring comes from completing the right combinations.
  • Trading & negotiation: Deals between players move the game forward.
Full publisher description

Pandemic: On the Brink includes new event cards, new role cards, rules for five players, and optional game challenges to increase the difficulty of the Pandemic base game. These new challenges, which can be used individually or combined for even more difficult play, are as follows: The Virulent Strain challenge makes one disease become particularly deadly in unpredictable ways. The Mutation challenge adds a fifth (purple) disease that behaves differently than the original four. The Bio-Terrorist challenge pits one player against the others! Part of the Pandemic series .

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