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, and 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 cards from the city draw pile to your hand. (This pile includes city cards (1 per city), 5 event cards and 4-6 epidemic cards.) There is a hand limit of 7 (city + event) cards enforced at all times.
• • Draw 2-4 cards (according to infection rate) from the top of the infection 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 during other players' 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.