Some good advice but you can't card count this game exactly. Once you break the deck into 4 and put the 4 epidemic cards on top of each stack, you then shuffle each stack. The epdidemic card could end up at the bottom or the top of the 4 stacks. Then you pile the 4 stacks without shuffling them. You can't get 4 epidemic cards together, but you can get two within 4 (two draws per player per turn).
yeah but when dealing out the stacks, you can tell how many are in each stack. so you can know it's an epidemic at the bottom of a stack, or how likely one is if you're running out of that stack.
Just played this game for the first time yesterday. We kind of moved a bit ineffectively and worried too much about the outbreak counter (it never got above 0). We lost with 10ish cubes on the board though, some blue and some yellow. We accidentaly played with the mac number of epidemic cards though lol
My prob is I generally have to waste a whole turn travelling to the Share city. Then the sharer wastes a turn travelling there also. I guess I should use dispatcher always.
Can you clarify 2 things: 1. If we eradicate all of one colour off the map without finding a cure is it eradicated permenantly? 2. Can you win after you find all 4 cures? Or do you need to clear up remaining cubes? We always run out of time!
1. No, a disease isn’t eradicated until there is a cure. If a card of that color is pulled from the infection deck, put a cube down. 2. Game ends when all four cures are found. No other conditions are needed.
I just played this game for the first time. First off, wtf. This game is ridiculously difficult and we were supposedly playing on easy mode. Lost 3 times in a row. Tf is this
@@typeofguyto Not all roles are created equally. Some work best in a 4 player game, some are great with only 2 ppl. Me and my partner play with 2 roles each - that gives SOOOOO much fun interaction - and all roles can somewhat shine.
I am not sure what do you mean by expecting the epidemic card next. Once the stack is prepared as you say, you have to reshuffle the whole deck with the epidemic cards again. So you have no way to know when to expect the epidemic cards. They may come by the end of the game and one after the other, or they can appear immediately at the beginning. Please elaborate.
That's not accurate. The way that he describes the insertion of the epidemic cards into the deck is as follows, example: You're playing with 4 epidemic cards. You divide the player card deck into 4 equal piles and place an epidemic on the top of each. You then shuffle each separate stack by itself. Then you put stack 1 on top of stack 2 on top of stack 3, etc. If there were 14 cards in each stack prior to placing the epidemic card on top, then each stack has 15 cards. You can then effectively count the cards in the player pile. Does that help?
Some good advice but you can't card count this game exactly. Once you break the deck into 4 and put the 4 epidemic cards on top of each stack, you then shuffle each stack. The epdidemic card could end up at the bottom or the top of the 4 stacks. Then you pile the 4 stacks without shuffling them. You can't get 4 epidemic cards together, but you can get two within 4 (two draws per player per turn).
yeah but when dealing out the stacks, you can tell how many are in each stack. so you can know it's an epidemic at the bottom of a stack, or how likely one is if you're running out of that stack.
Can you teach us how to beat the 7.8 billion player variant that is played on a spherical board 8,000 miles in diameter?
Just played this game for the first time yesterday. We kind of moved a bit ineffectively and worried too much about the outbreak counter (it never got above 0). We lost with 10ish cubes on the board though, some blue and some yellow. We accidentaly played with the mac number of epidemic cards though lol
This game predicted the future
My prob is I generally have to waste a whole turn travelling to the Share city. Then the sharer wastes a turn travelling there also. I guess I should use dispatcher always.
That is how I think we always lose, too.
I recently lost this game before round 2 was over because I ran out of black cubes
that tough :)
Can you clarify 2 things:
1. If we eradicate all of one colour off the map without finding a cure is it eradicated permenantly?
2. Can you win after you find all 4 cures? Or do you need to clear up remaining cubes?
We always run out of time!
You have to cure the disease to eradicate it and you only need to cure the 4 diseases too win you don’t have to eradicate everything
1. No, a disease isn’t eradicated until there is a cure. If a card of that color is pulled from the infection deck, put a cube down.
2. Game ends when all four cures are found. No other conditions are needed.
I just played this game for the first time. First off, wtf. This game is ridiculously difficult and we were supposedly playing on easy mode. Lost 3 times in a row. Tf is this
Now I'm here looking up how tf I win
Did you figure it out? We win about 40% of the time.
@@typeofguyto Not all roles are created equally. Some work best in a 4 player game, some are great with only 2 ppl. Me and my partner play with 2 roles each - that gives SOOOOO much fun interaction - and all roles can somewhat shine.
what roles would work best for.. A 2 person game 3 person game and a 4 person game.
We played this game for new years eve.
We lost.
Tried playing in real life and it didn’t go so well either
The most important way to beat Pandemic, according to the CDC: wear a mask.
Actually no
Lame
I am not sure what do you mean by expecting the epidemic card next. Once the stack is prepared as you say, you have to reshuffle the whole deck with the epidemic cards again. So you have no way to know when to expect the epidemic cards. They may come by the end of the game and one after the other, or they can appear immediately at the beginning. Please elaborate.
That's not accurate. The way that he describes the insertion of the epidemic cards into the deck is as follows, example: You're playing with 4 epidemic cards. You divide the player card deck into 4 equal piles and place an epidemic on the top of each. You then shuffle each separate stack by itself. Then you put stack 1 on top of stack 2 on top of stack 3, etc. If there were 14 cards in each stack prior to placing the epidemic card on top, then each stack has 15 cards. You can then effectively count the cards in the player pile. Does that help?
Thank you Zfinny, that's exactly correct!
@@zfinney this still means that an epidemic card can be right next to another epidemic card. So really it doesn’t help you a whole lot.