Z-Man Games | Pandemic The Cure | Board Game | Ages 8+ | For 2 to 5 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

Pandemic: The Cure is a 2014 dice derivative of the best selling cooperative 2008 game ‘Pandemic’. Notice Before COVID.Do not be overwhelmed with the many dice in the box. Different colours, each colour its own pips and each ‘technical’ role (player) have their own dice to roll. You roll your dice, to get actions: Treat disease dice, get to the right location, get samples, take dice out of the treatment center. Unlike the original Pandemic, in The Cure the actions you can take are determined by what action faces show up on your role's dice: If you roll airplanes, you can travel all around the world but what will you be able to do when you get there? Get samples, but you need disease dice in the treatment center to sample! You need treatments, which lets you put disease dice into the treatment center, and you must be where the virus is endemic!The beauty here is that you don't get stuck with what you rolled. You can re-roll as many dice, as many times as you want, Remember though, 5 of your 6 dice faces are helpful actions but 1 is ‘Biohazard’. If you roll a Biohazard, you miss out on getting to use that dice for the rest of your turn and it advances the infection rate, causes epidemics and more. So do you re-roll and try to get a sample, risking the Biohazard, or do you use whatever action is already up? If you re-roll, how many times will you re-roll? Once? Twice? These choices are what make this game fun!Each player gets unique coloured dice depending on their role. The Medic has special dice faces that are good at treating diseases while the Scientist has a higher probability of rolling samples AND only needs 11 or more to cure a disease on a Roll for a Cure. The Dispatcher lets you move people around the board more easily, though the board is much smaller than the original game with 6 regions. Cooperative games like this work well.I love the linen finish and the art on the cards. The event cards are like the original Pandemic and the role cards are like ID badges. The dice all seem to be of good quality. You also get a cloth bag and location disks that are nice. The central score tracker it is very useful for tracking info, as a place for region disks, as a treatment center area.The rulebook logical, has examples and is well written: An easy game to learn from the rulebook. The back page even has clarifications on some specific role and event cards. Familiarity with the original Pandemic helps but is not needed.Obviously there is a lot of luck in this DICE game. You have the luck of the action roll, the way disease dice come out on the board, and Rolling for a Cure. The skill part really comes in working together, leaning into the strengths of your role, and taking educated risks based on probabilities. Normally if you get some really bad rolls and everything crashes and burns, it's short enough and easy enough to set up (~3 minutes) that you can just play again! I do miss the big world map, but I get more tension from the rolls and the overall fun crammed into a 30 minute is beter than the original game of 'Pandemic', good as I think that game still is.This is alot of game for the price: There is a "let's play it again!" quality and fun .RECOMMENDED

I love board games. I've been playing Pandemic and its expansions for a couple of years and it's my favourite, so I was intrigued by the idea of Legacy but put off by the fact that it can only be played once and that you have to "deface" the board, some cards and so on. And it's relatively expensive. However, justifying the purchase as a gift for another couple with whom we regularly meet to play Pandemic, my girlfriend and I bought Legacy Season 1, and I'm so very glad that we did.Over four separate days and around 18 hours of game play we had a huge amount of fun. Any reservations we had about having to mark the board permanently or make changes to cards were alleviated almost immediately by how exciting it was to see the game evolve as we played it. Objectives and goals changed as we played out an interesting story with shocking twists and turns. There was one shock in particular which genuinely affected me as much as the biggest movie twists I've ever seen - the kind that you don't see coming at all and leave you reeling for days afterwards.When it was all over we all felt sad and perhaps my only criticism of this game is that, at the end, all you can really do is throw away the beautiful board and game components (some you could keep as spares for the original game). I haven't been able to bring myself to do that yet and maybe I'll think of some interesting way to preserve it.On a practical level, the rules are quite involved - some would say complicated - and, of course, they change as the game goes on (stickers are revealed with new rules which must be stuck into the rule book in designated spaces), but for the most part they're well explained and the rewards make it worth the effort. It's a lot easier to get to grips with if you've played the original Pandemic game before, and some of the early game play will be familiar to you if you've played some of the original game's expansions. Not only in terms of the hours of game play and huge fun that this game delivers but also in terms of the quality and quantity of things that the box contains which are added to the game as it progresses, Legacy Season 1 is unquestionably full value for money even at £55. We've now got Season 2 and will be starting that next week!

Fun and with lots of different elements compared to the standard Pandemic. You play each month and if you fail a month you can repeat it again with some extra help. We've accidently started playing in January which should be nice, and we will play once a month.

Having played monopoly to death we were looking for a new board game to try and pandemic came up on a list to try. We really enjoyed it after a little time getting used to the rules and the qwerks of the players. Really good game

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I love both Warcraft (For the Horde!) and Pandemic. All of my friends have Pandemic though, so I wanted something a little bit different. Of the handful of Pandemic reskins, I chose this one because I thought it would be liked the most by my friends, many of which also play WoW, instead of the Star Wars one I seriously considered (none of my friends are Star Wars nerds like myself).If you've played Pandemic, this is very quick to pick up and play.If you haven't played Pandemic, it's still very quick to pick up and play!The rulebook is short and clear, spells everything out, and the game itself is great. I would say that this isn't AS GOOD as just normal vanilla Pandemic though. Despite that, it's different enough that I don't find myself just wishing I was playing normal Pandemic while playing this. I enjoy the Warcraft theme, and it's a fun time.Materials are good quality. The miniatures are pretty good and will look even better painted. The card stock is a bit thin, but otherwise overall quality is good.

Love playing this. The rules are easy to follow and understand. Great co-op game, everyone works toward the same goal, it is fun! Different game plays so you can switch it up, and adjust to different lengths.

This is the best board game expansion pack I’ve ever played!Pandemic is already wickedly hard, but the addition of a bioterrorist makes it nearly impossible!I’m never going to win again!

Most of the "big box" versions of Pandemic are best 3+. This one plays very well at two, plus it runs very quickly. It's always nice to have a cooperative game that plays well at two without it requiring a forklift to get the miniature/standee/card laden box off the shelf.