Thanks for the excellent video. I watched this a couple of times before breaking out my new copy of Pandemic for a family game night, and it was a success! Even with it being the first time playing for all of us, everyone commented how easy it was to immediately enjoy the game from the start because I had taken time to learn from you first before trying to explain the game to them at the table.
I wish the 7.8 billion player variant played on a spherical board 8,000 miles in diameter, which we played 102 years ago and we're playing again today, was also played cooperatively.
@@WatchItPlayed btw what happens if, say, the infection deck runs out of cards and you can't draw from it by some crazy chance? Do you automatically win or...what?
Same here. This video was excellent at explaining the game. I tried reading the directions and they were difficult to understand. Thank you for this video!
I like that you're making these videos for older games. I watched the link you posted in the comments below about why you've added these to your channel and it's for people like me hahaha. I'm so new to this hobby and I've been starting with a lot games that people would consider old.
I think the ones that have stood the time will always be someone's new game, so it made me want to make an effort to give them some attention too - glad you're enjoying them as well :)
@@WatchItPlayed COSMIC ENCOUNTER needs the Rodney treatment! As a game appropriate for beginners, I have looked far and wide for one comprehensive video explaining the game and the rules from expansions to send out to players for rules prep (and not waste valuable face-to-face time on explanations), and there are none. Some are OK. All are flawed. It's so easy to get to the table once everyone knows the basics, but a FTF explanation for "the new people" can easily burn up 20-30 minutes.
Not So Nerdy Nerd : I love that he’s doing older games too! I know how to play this, but I have a co-worker who is new to gaming, and I feel like I’m bad at explaining things. So, I send him a link to Watch It Played videos and then I don’t have to teach the game from scratch in the limited time we have available! ❤️👍🏾
We won our second game but still had to re-watch this video again for a reminder of the rules. Now the learning curve is over and I'm sure we will have lots of fun just setting up and caring on with the game. Lots of fun, and so many different outcomes.
Pandemic is an awesome game. Glad to finally see you on your channel Rodney. It's a great example of modern board gaming and I handily recommend it. Any chance for Pandemic promo cards in your next fundraiser? Would love to have you/pep as roles.
Question for you, in your outbreak scenario, what happens if both Tehran and Karachi already have 3 cubes and Delhi is forced to outbreak. Do they chain reaction eachother and force Delhi to re-outbreak? Or do they technically both get “outbroken” at the same time from Delhi meaning they don’t chain to each-other? Hope that makes sense!
Check this section of the video as it should answer your question. Both would outbreak, but remember, during a chain of outbreaks from a card flip, a city that itself already had an outbreak doesn't receive another cube (it can't re-outbreak during that same card flip): ruclips.net/video/ojkScPkdgsk/видео.htmlfeature=shared&t=843
I read so many reviews on Amazon saying they couldn’t understand the game, but when me and my friend were 9 we totally understood it and had a blast playing it.
Thank you for this video me and my cousin GAVE UP AND DONT UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTION and we watched this we now understand it now new subscriber her i love this game !
I saw this video and was excited to many get it. The next day I walked by a yard sale with the same game! It is fun but I think I prefer games like Hero realms , Descent, runebound. Ect. Anyway I love your videos
Thanks for this, I just got the game - total bargain on ebay, an earlier, less pretty version, but I'm ok with that... - we played with our daughter last night and won! I was sceptical at our victory, and watching you today, I discover that we shouldn't have won, we reshuffled the Player Deck and kept going... oops. Still, we'll have another go tonight, and see how we do. Thanks for the vid!
Great video! Makes a lot of things very clear. Just one question: For example, if you don’t see a yellow cube during the setup (so there are no yellow cubes on the board), is the yellow disease automatically eradicated?
Im confused about the outbreak. "All the cities connected to the city" aren't they all connected to each other. The white lines go everywhere. Or is a triangle considered the connecting cities?
It means the cities "directly" connected the the city that is outbreaking. So if Atlanta is out-breaking, for example, the disease will spread to Chicago, Washington and Miami (because those are the 3 cities that are directly connected to Atlanta).
Dude -you ROCK! We've played Forbidden Island & Desert, and I picked this up as our next delve into group gaming. Between you & The Rules Girl, I think we're ready, though probably need to wait until school ends to start, due to time. :>
In a scenario where say, there is only one yellow colour disease cube on the board in the beginning, if I move to that location and remove the yellow cube, does it mean yellow is being eradicated? That seems too easy to eradicate one of the disease.
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
Here's a situation we ran into in our first game yesterday; we had 3 black viruses cubes on Baghdad, 3 on Cairo, and 3 on Istanbul. We had to add 3 to Baghdad (which was only 1), which created an outbreak. We had to add the outbreak cubes to the connecting cities, but we were unsure of how to navigate doing that with the neighboring citties. It seems it would be a Neverending cycle of adding to each city, creating a new outbreak, and just cycling until game over. Is that correct?! Help us Rodney, you're our only hope! 😉
Cities can cause other cities to outbreak during an outbreak, but If a city has already outbreaked during the resolution of a card being flipped, it will not break out again, even if other neighboring cities would add another cube to it multiple times. This is hard to explain over text, but let's say Cairo outbreaks, and then this causes it's neighbor to outbreak... even though it's neighbor would normally add a cube to Cairo... in this case it won't, because Cairo already broke-out during this resolution. Does that make sense?
@@WatchItPlayed Yes, totally! Thanks so much! BTW, my wife explicitly told me to say thank you and that she loves you because you answer so fast and are so nice! I think you won be brownie points, which is cause for me saying thanks again! 🤗
I have a question, do you always draw 2 cards even when you already have 7 in your hand? Maybe this question is stupid but i cant find a clear solution in the rulebook, thank you
Thank you very much for this grest "How to play" - it really helped me a lot! There is just one thing I seem not to understand. What is the difference between "erradicate" a disease and "remove all the cubes from the board", (mentioned at 14:54)? I thought to erradicate a disease means you HAVE TO remove all cubes of that color. Thanks again!
The main difference is that it's possible to remove all cubes from the board, but that doesn't mean the disease is eradicated. To be eradicated, you must "have a cure" for the disease AND remove all it's pieces from the board. Hope that helps! Glad you liked the video :)
Nope, it's a max of 3 'per color'. An Outbreak occurs at more than 3 of the same color, 3 blue and 2 yellow count be in the same city, for example. Hope that helps!
Great video, Still had questions, Is there a timer for each move of the group or player to take? (from what I learned, no, you just take the time to think your next move with the group), can disease cross borders in color (appears they can when a contagioun spread happens). Looks like I am ready to give this a go.
Hey, sorry, I'm not quite sure that you mean by "do players choose the cards they want to play?". Can you give me a time stamp to a section of the video where you're uncertain if the player gets to choose the card they are playing (are you asking if people are forced to randomly play cards from their hands? If so, no, you always pick the card you are playing with a related action? Also not quite sure what you mean by a timer for moves? Are you asking if players "must make a decision with 3 minutes, or their turn is skipped?" If so, no, there's no rules like that. You have as long as you need. Of course, if you take 30 minutes, the other players might start to get annoyed :) Yes, a disease can cross borders in color (if say, there is an Outbreak). Let me know if that covers it, or if you have follow up questions.
Hey there, you can do less if you'd like to. During the Action step you may perform "up to" 4 actions. Very nice to hear you all had a fun time playing and collaborating together :).
What happens if (like we had last night on our first playthrough): an outbreak occurs in London as it already has 3 blue cubes. Paris has 2, Madrid has 3. You place a cube on Paris (making it 3). You need to place a cube on Madrid but you can't, so a chain reaction occurs. You now need to put one on Paris but you've just placed one on Paris. Does another outbreak occur? Or should you play Madrid first and simply place a blue cube on Paris to make that city up to 3? Hope this makes sense.
Hey Scott, at 13:53, I think you’ll find an example like that in the video. Basically, during an outbreak, a city that already outbreaks, during that same outbreak, doesn’t outbreak again. So in your example above, when Madrid outbreaks because Paris outbreaks, Madrid doesn’t cause Paris to outbreak again, because it just did, as a part of that same chaining outbreak. Hope that helps!
An outbreak would occur at London, and you would place a third cube on Paris, as well as one cube on each of Essen and New York. You would also need to place a cube on Madrid, but since Madrid already has three cubes, another outbreak would occur, and you would place another cube on New York, one on Sao Paulo and one on Algiers (but not London because it already had an outbreak). You would also need to place on on Paris, but since Paris now has three cubes (due to the outbreak from London), it also outbreaks, and you would place another cube on Essen, one on Milan, and one on Algiers. Nothing would go to London or Madrid since they already had outbreaks. So, that one "chain" would cause three outbreaks (London, then Madrid, then Paris). (For example's sake, let's just pretend that Algiers had started with two blue cubes. After the outbreak at Madrid, it would have three. Then after the outbreak from Paris, Algiers would also outbreak, and BLUE cubes would be placed on Istanbul and Cairo. Even though Algiers is black, the outbreak is in the color blue so only blue cubes would be placed. By this time, you would probably have lost the game due to running out of blue cubes. However, if Algiers had started with two black cubes, then at the end of the three outbreaks, it would have two black cubes and two blue cubes and it would not have had an outbreak.)
Just a note for anyone else trying to win with just two players. We used every combination and could not win. Your best bet is the Medic or Quaratine Specialist and the Scientist. But with four players we could win--just barely. But a win is a win.
You may find as you play more, you'll develop new strategies that increase your win rates - you'll always have some amount of randomness to deal with, but winning at 2 is not uncommon. Keep up the good work!
It allows you to skip this part of a normal turn: ruclips.net/video/ojkScPkdgsk/видео.html - in other words, for that round, you won't be adding more disease cubes to the board. Hope that helps!
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
If we eradicate all cubes of one color off the board before it is cured, do we still need to cure it to keep from adding more of that color to the board in subsequent infections/epidemics?
Question, here's the scenario. During the infection phase I drew Bangkok which is red, yet Bangkok already has 3 red cubes, so does one outbreak/outbreak chain happen as a result of this card or does two (an outbreak/outbreak chain for each of the two infection cubes)?
Hi Rodney! Thanks so much for the video! What if we share knowledge but the player who is receiving the city card already has 7 cards in their hand? Are they not allowed to receive that card?
your video is very useful! trying to understand the Dispatcher and can't find info about it. this charachter can connect 2 pawns by moving one of them to the location of the other. does it include himself? (moving another pawn to the place where he is located or moving himself to a place where another pawn is located?) if not, than in a 2 players game he can't use this ability to connect 2 pawns, right? thank you!
So on a players turn they do up to 4 actions, draw 2 players cards, then infect cities.. the infect cities part on a players turn is where I am lost. Does the player just draw 1 infection card and place 1 colored cube that matches to that city at the end of the turn?
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
@@WatchItPlayed I have just one question. When it comes to taking a card from someone by using the Share knowledge action, does that person need to agree to it?
@@hellraiser338 Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
Hi Rodney, thank you for another great demo. A quick question - do you draw cards on your turn if you already have seven? It is not clear from the rules. Thank you
thanks Rodney, much appreciated this video. Question, the dispatcher can move another player token as if it was his/her own. Does it mean I can use cards to make another player use a charter or a direct flight? Do I use my own cards or the other player cards to do this, please?
You state in the video, in order to win the game you need to cure all the diseases....but what if you cure 2 and eradicate the other 2 (but no cure for those)? Does this count as a win?
Remember, you can’t eradicate a disease unless you have the cure for it (you can still remove all the cubes from the board, but it is not considered eradicated unless there is a cure for it as well). Hope that helps.
Did a new edition of the board game come out that Pandemic is being covered? No problem with more content obviously, and Pandemic is a great game, just wondering what prompted “old” game coverage. Most of the time you guys cover new games.
He's mentioned recently that he is trying to get more "classic" game How-To's in between newer, more involved games. Both to fill out the library of available videos (he recently did a video for Tick to Ride, as an example) and to also have them available for newcomers to the hobby. These games may be old for us but to those just entering into the hobby, they could be their gateway game.
You're referring to the Legacy game, right? If so, those are two different games - so they have different content, and had to be balanced for play differently, I assume.
Hopefully you guys can explain to me one thing. When you draw an epidemic and infect a city in its second step, does that automatically trigger an outbreak? That does not seem well explained and my group of newbies is very perplexed. I am a boardgame veteran, but in our Bulgarian translation it's a bit poorly worded. You did say in the video that it triggers an outbreak, but i just want to be doubly sure.
It is not as much a problem with the video. My question is when you draw an Epidemic card, on the second step you infect a city from the bottom of the deck. You place up to 3 cubes of the color on it, right? Right. And then if i understood right you create an outbreak from this city? Am i correct in my understanding?
No, you don’t automatically create an outbreak when an episode card is drawn. An Outbreak is triggered only when you would be required to place a 4th cube on a space that already has 3. I do think it would be easier to discuss this if you would share the point in the video where I explain how an epidemic resolves and then point out the specific time stamp where you’re seeing something you’re unsure of.
What happens if an epidemic card is drawn and the city that is infected has 2 different diseases? does a red city infected with 3 blue disease outbreak 1 blue disease to other red cities?
It's a bit of a complicated question. The main answer to your question is this... A city can hold up to 3 cubes of each color of disease. So if you draw a red card, it will drop red cubes into the red city (even if that city also has 3 blue cubes). But just to clarify... If a blue city with 3 blue cubes was drawn instead and an outbreak occurred which forced a 4th blue cube into the red city, that red city would cause a chain reaction and spill blue cubes out into adjacent areas (even though it's main color is red).
The placement of the spaces don't line up perfectly with their actual positions on the globe (also see New York... it's not in the right place on the map either)., but I think this is so they can create enough room for the spaces and lines on the board, and not have things bunched too closely together.
Hey Christopher, I don't reivew on this channel, as it's too hard to say what our visitors will like or not like in a game - as tastes across games differ quite a bit from one person to the next.
It's auto-generated by RUclips and for awhile there, RUclips didn't always know to default the translation to English (even though all the settings for the video were for English - it was a weird glitch).
No one seems to answer this questions. Do you HAVE to have 7 cards for your turn to end? As in, if you play 5 cards to cure a disease, do you then have to repeat actions and draw 2 cards until you can eventually have 7? Instructions don’t say and neither do any of these videos.
Hey Chandler, the reason this rule book doesn't say you HAVE to have 7 cards at the end of your turn, or that you have to keep drawing until you have 7 cards, is because that isn't a rule. You just draw 2 cards at the end of your turn. Hope that helps!
Watch It Played thanks for the response. I was unsure how to interpret this situation because it gives an example of a turn under hand limit in the instructions that talks about a player drawing 2 cards and that the person is well under their 7 card limit so they continue their turn. So does drawing cards end your turn (in the event you don’t draw an Epidemic card)?
@@chandlerelder After drawing 2 cards, (and resolving any epidemic, if necessary), you then go to the Infection step of your turn. After infecting cities and discarding Infection cards, your turn is over. It's tough to address your comments around the rule book, because I'm not sure exactly what you're looking at - but what you see here in this video is accurate, so hopefully that helps.
My god dude, thank you so much, me and my friends played this game and thought it was so hard, until now that I've watched this video and realized that we were playing it wrong. You earned a subscriber dude, keep up the good work
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Thanks for the excellent video. I watched this a couple of times before breaking out my new copy of Pandemic for a family game night, and it was a success! Even with it being the first time playing for all of us, everyone commented how easy it was to immediately enjoy the game from the start because I had taken time to learn from you first before trying to explain the game to them at the table.
That's wonderful feedback Brady - I'm glad we could virtually team up to assist with game night :)
I wish the 7.8 billion player variant played on a spherical board 8,000 miles in diameter, which we played 102 years ago and we're playing again today, was also played cooperatively.
World population 102 years ago wasn’t anywhere near 7.8 billion 😂
@@MrCostaC World population was only 1.8 Billion 100 years ago 😱 risen by 6 billion in 100 years
We tried to play just by reading the enclosed instructions. Gave up quick and watch this video instead. Much easier to understand.
I'm glad to her this was helpful. Enjoy saving the world!
@@WatchItPlayed btw what happens if, say, the infection deck runs out of cards and you can't draw from it by some crazy chance? Do you automatically win or...what?
@@u1tr4k1rby It won't happen, so there's no rules for that.
That’s soo fkng true
Same here. This video was excellent at explaining the game. I tried reading the directions and they were difficult to understand. Thank you for this video!
I like that you're making these videos for older games. I watched the link you posted in the comments below about why you've added these to your channel and it's for people like me hahaha. I'm so new to this hobby and I've been starting with a lot games that people would consider old.
I think the ones that have stood the time will always be someone's new game, so it made me want to make an effort to give them some attention too - glad you're enjoying them as well :)
And for those of us new to these games. Keep it up - very helpful and informative.
@@WatchItPlayed COSMIC ENCOUNTER needs the Rodney treatment! As a game appropriate for beginners, I have looked far and wide for one comprehensive video explaining the game and the rules from expansions to send out to players for rules prep (and not waste valuable face-to-face time on explanations), and there are none. Some are OK. All are flawed. It's so easy to get to the table once everyone knows the basics, but a FTF explanation for "the new people" can easily burn up 20-30 minutes.
koomo801 Thanks for the interest!
Not So Nerdy Nerd : I love that he’s doing older games too! I know how to play this, but I have a co-worker who is new to gaming, and I feel like I’m bad at explaining things. So, I send him a link to Watch It Played videos and then I don’t have to teach the game from scratch in the limited time we have available! ❤️👍🏾
I wish I could play this with friends, but we’re in it
But hey-
This was great for clarification!
Maybe zoom 《eye roll 》
We won our second game but still had to re-watch this video again for a reminder of the rules. Now the learning curve is over and I'm sure we will have lots of fun just setting up and caring on with the game. Lots of fun, and so many different outcomes.
It's always great once the rules are locked in and you can just focus on the game play - enjoy!
Pandemic is an awesome game. Glad to finally see you on your channel Rodney. It's a great example of modern board gaming and I handily recommend it. Any chance for Pandemic promo cards in your next fundraiser? Would love to have you/pep as roles.
That would be fun :)
The game that makes me reach for my hand sanitizer.
This comment aged well... maybe a little too well
This comment was before it’s time lol
swedish king wow
Question for you, in your outbreak scenario, what happens if both Tehran and Karachi already have 3 cubes and Delhi is forced to outbreak. Do they chain reaction eachother and force Delhi to re-outbreak? Or do they technically both get “outbroken” at the same time from Delhi meaning they don’t chain to each-other?
Hope that makes sense!
Check this section of the video as it should answer your question. Both would outbreak, but remember, during a chain of outbreaks from a card flip, a city that itself already had an outbreak doesn't receive another cube (it can't re-outbreak during that same card flip): ruclips.net/video/ojkScPkdgsk/видео.htmlfeature=shared&t=843
I read so many reviews on Amazon saying they couldn’t understand the game, but when me and my friend were 9 we totally understood it and had a blast playing it.
Yes. Different people have different expectations and experiences with rules complexity. It can really swing peoples reaction to them, to be sure.
Thank you for this video me and my cousin GAVE UP AND DONT UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTION and we watched this we now understand it now new subscriber her i love this game !
So glad to hear the video was helpful - welcome to the channel and happy gaming!
@@WatchItPlayed 😊❤👌🏻
I'm a crazy, or is this the third time to see this video? This game is my evergreen. I've taught my friends and family and it's a hit every time.
You’re not crazy. I had things to correct.
Thank you, Groundhog day anyone?
Great explanation on how to play! Clear, concise and understandable. Good job.
Thank you kindly!
One of the best games ever
Was given this game for Christmas. This video has been incredible thank you
So good to hear - have fun saving the world Peter!
This was such a clearly explained video, really enjoyable to watch. Thanks!
Very nice of you to say Ajay!
Is it mandatory to do 4 actions or can I just skip doing any more actions? E.g. Driving 3 times to a city but want to end it there.
You don't have to do all 4 actions.
@@WatchItPlayedThank you! :D
Great videos. We love playing board games and always watch your videos before we play a new game
So nice to hear Amorette! I hope you have fun playing (and saving the world!)
These kinds of videos are literally a life saver. Thanks so much!
You're very welcome - glad you enjoyed!
I saw this video and was excited to many get it. The next day I walked by a yard sale with the same game! It is fun but I think I prefer games like Hero realms , Descent, runebound. Ect. Anyway I love your videos
Thanks for the kind words about the videos!
I hate reading instructions, thank you!!! Really well explained.
Very glad this was helpful Brad!
Thanks for this, I just got the game - total bargain on ebay, an earlier, less pretty version, but I'm ok with that... - we played with our daughter last night and won! I was sceptical at our victory, and watching you today, I discover that we shouldn't have won, we reshuffled the Player Deck and kept going... oops. Still, we'll have another go tonight, and see how we do. Thanks for the vid!
All the best saving the world this next time around :)
Wow! Thanks for the video I got the the game a couple of days ago and this video really helped me.
Very glad to hear it Grine! Have fun playing :)
Why is there a different colored cube in a different disease spot?
It can happen with outbreaks. Imagine an outbreak of blue in Atlanta. That would send a blue cube to Miami (which generally has yellow cubes).
My biomedical science students are playing this game. Thank you for your video it was very helpful.
You're very welcome - I hope they enjoy!
Your explanation is always the best!!
Very kind of you to say Anne!
Purchased this g,are for Christmas. Hard to start. Now I get it
Very glad this was helpful - have fun playing!
Rodney you have the best job in the world!!!!
It does motivate all those smiles you see in the videos :)
Great video! Makes a lot of things very clear. Just one question: For example, if you don’t see a yellow cube during the setup (so there are no yellow cubes on the board), is the yellow disease automatically eradicated?
Nope, remember, to eradicate a disease you need to also have the cure.
@@WatchItPlayed ok thanks!
Quick question: can you place a cube on a city that already has a research center?
Yep!
Im confused about the outbreak. "All the cities connected to the city" aren't they all connected to each other. The white lines go everywhere. Or is a triangle considered the connecting cities?
It means the cities "directly" connected the the city that is outbreaking. So if Atlanta is out-breaking, for example, the disease will spread to Chicago, Washington and Miami (because those are the 3 cities that are directly connected to Atlanta).
Awesome explaination. Thanks. Made it so much easier to learn
So glad you found it helpful!
Rodney you are the best. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it Trent!
Great video - thanks for clarifying EVERYTHING.
So glad you found it helpful Chris!
Dude -you ROCK!
We've played Forbidden Island & Desert, and I picked this up as our next delve into group gaming. Between you & The Rules Girl, I think we're ready, though probably need to wait until school ends to start, due to time. :>
Sounds like you've got a nice collection of games to play :) Enjoy! Thanks for the kind words about the video.
I thought this video was much better than Rules Girl's. My kids and I were still lost after hers, but watching this one made it crystal clear.
In a scenario where say, there is only one yellow colour disease cube on the board in the beginning, if I move to that location and remove the yellow cube, does it mean yellow is being eradicated? That seems too easy to eradicate one of the disease.
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
Here's a situation we ran into in our first game yesterday; we had 3 black viruses cubes on Baghdad, 3 on Cairo, and 3 on Istanbul. We had to add 3 to Baghdad (which was only 1), which created an outbreak. We had to add the outbreak cubes to the connecting cities, but we were unsure of how to navigate doing that with the neighboring citties. It seems it would be a Neverending cycle of adding to each city, creating a new outbreak, and just cycling until game over. Is that correct?! Help us Rodney, you're our only hope! 😉
Cities can cause other cities to outbreak during an outbreak, but If a city has already outbreaked during the resolution of a card being flipped, it will not break out again, even if other neighboring cities would add another cube to it multiple times. This is hard to explain over text, but let's say Cairo outbreaks, and then this causes it's neighbor to outbreak... even though it's neighbor would normally add a cube to Cairo... in this case it won't, because Cairo already broke-out during this resolution. Does that make sense?
@@WatchItPlayed Yes, totally! Thanks so much! BTW, my wife explicitly told me to say thank you and that she loves you because you answer so fast and are so nice! I think you won be brownie points, which is cause for me saying thanks again! 🤗
@@TheCHRISCaPWN A pleasure to be able to be a help to you both :)
I have a question, do you always draw 2 cards even when you already have 7 in your hand? Maybe this question is stupid but i cant find a clear solution in the rulebook, thank you
You do. Then you'd have to discard down to 7.
Thank you very much for this grest "How to play" - it really helped me a lot!
There is just one thing I seem not to understand. What is the difference between "erradicate" a disease and "remove all the cubes from the board", (mentioned at 14:54)? I thought to erradicate a disease means you HAVE TO remove all cubes of that color. Thanks again!
The main difference is that it's possible to remove all cubes from the board, but that doesn't mean the disease is eradicated. To be eradicated, you must "have a cure" for the disease AND remove all it's pieces from the board. Hope that helps! Glad you liked the video :)
Hi Rodney, at 8.00 minutes you have 4 total disease cubes on a city. I thought the maximum was 3 total, which could be different colours.
Nope, it's a max of 3 'per color'. An Outbreak occurs at more than 3 of the same color, 3 blue and 2 yellow count be in the same city, for example. Hope that helps!
Great overview of how to play! Thanks!
You're very welcome!
@@WatchItPlayed played my first game with the family, had everyone sit through your video. Very useful, thanks again!
Great video, Still had questions, Is there a timer for each move of the group or player to take? (from what I learned, no, you just take the time to think your next move with the group), can disease cross borders in color (appears they can when a contagioun spread happens). Looks like I am ready to give this a go.
Hey, sorry, I'm not quite sure that you mean by "do players choose the cards they want to play?". Can you give me a time stamp to a section of the video where you're uncertain if the player gets to choose the card they are playing (are you asking if people are forced to randomly play cards from their hands? If so, no, you always pick the card you are playing with a related action?
Also not quite sure what you mean by a timer for moves? Are you asking if players "must make a decision with 3 minutes, or their turn is skipped?" If so, no, there's no rules like that. You have as long as you need. Of course, if you take 30 minutes, the other players might start to get annoyed :)
Yes, a disease can cross borders in color (if say, there is an Outbreak).
Let me know if that covers it, or if you have follow up questions.
All good, I should edit. It was in the video, and I saw that the second time. @@WatchItPlayed
Thank you so much for this tutorial 🌹
You're very welcome - have a great time playing!
This video is a great help, thank you very much!!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for this detail explanation!!!
You're very welcome - have fun playing!
@@WatchItPlayed I just bought it and can't wait!!!
Such a good video, clear and detailed, as usual
Thanks so much John!
Do you have to do 4 actions or can you do less if you wanted to? Nice video. Played it with my 12, 9 and 7 year old kids. They had a blast.
Hey there, you can do less if you'd like to. During the Action step you may perform "up to" 4 actions. Very nice to hear you all had a fun time playing and collaborating together :).
Thank you for the video it was very helpful!!
Have a great time playing!
This was extremely helpful. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
What happens if (like we had last night on our first playthrough): an outbreak occurs in London as it already has 3 blue cubes. Paris has 2, Madrid has 3. You place a cube on Paris (making it 3). You need to place a cube on Madrid but you can't, so a chain reaction occurs. You now need to put one on Paris but you've just placed one on Paris. Does another outbreak occur? Or should you play Madrid first and simply place a blue cube on Paris to make that city up to 3? Hope this makes sense.
Hey Scott, at 13:53, I think you’ll find an example like that in the video. Basically, during an outbreak, a city that already outbreaks, during that same outbreak, doesn’t outbreak again. So in your example above, when Madrid outbreaks because Paris outbreaks, Madrid doesn’t cause Paris to outbreak again, because it just did, as a part of that same chaining outbreak. Hope that helps!
An outbreak would occur at London, and you would place a third cube on Paris, as well as one cube on each of Essen and New York. You would also need to place a cube on Madrid, but since Madrid already has three cubes, another outbreak would occur, and you would place another cube on New York, one on Sao Paulo and one on Algiers (but not London because it already had an outbreak). You would also need to place on on Paris, but since Paris now has three cubes (due to the outbreak from London), it also outbreaks, and you would place another cube on Essen, one on Milan, and one on Algiers. Nothing would go to London or Madrid since they already had outbreaks. So, that one "chain" would cause three outbreaks (London, then Madrid, then Paris). (For example's sake, let's just pretend that Algiers had started with two blue cubes. After the outbreak at Madrid, it would have three. Then after the outbreak from Paris, Algiers would also outbreak, and BLUE cubes would be placed on Istanbul and Cairo. Even though Algiers is black, the outbreak is in the color blue so only blue cubes would be placed. By this time, you would probably have lost the game due to running out of blue cubes. However, if Algiers had started with two black cubes, then at the end of the three outbreaks, it would have two black cubes and two blue cubes and it would not have had an outbreak.)
Just a note for anyone else trying to win with just two players. We used every combination and could not win. Your best bet is the Medic or Quaratine Specialist and the Scientist. But with four players we could win--just barely. But a win is a win.
You may find as you play more, you'll develop new strategies that increase your win rates - you'll always have some amount of randomness to deal with, but winning at 2 is not uncommon. Keep up the good work!
Wow I thought the game was hard but it was easy earned u a subscriber
Glad you find that helpful!
Great video! What does the one quiet night event do? Me and my friends can’t figure it out, please help!
It allows you to skip this part of a normal turn: ruclips.net/video/ojkScPkdgsk/видео.html - in other words, for that round, you won't be adding more disease cubes to the board. Hope that helps!
Amazing video, thank you now I can play!
I hope you have a great time with it!
can i use the same action morw than once in my turn?
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
Brilliant explanation!
Thank you Michael.
Great explanation! Thank you. I do have one question though. How do you end up with different decease types in one city?
It can happen with outbreaks. Imagine an outbreak of blue in Atlanta. That would send a blue cube to Miami (which generally has yellow cubes).
If we eradicate all cubes of one color off the board before it is cured, do we still need to cure it to keep from adding more of that color to the board in subsequent infections/epidemics?
Correct. The disease is not considered eradicated until a cure is also found for it.
Hi, quick question, how can there be a black cube on a blue country? How does that work? If an outbreak occurs?
Yep, from an outbreak!
Useful vid!
Thanks!
Hey, those boxes look familiar :)
Question, here's the scenario. During the infection phase I drew Bangkok which is red, yet Bangkok already has 3 red cubes, so does one outbreak/outbreak chain happen as a result of this card or does two (an outbreak/outbreak chain for each of the two infection cubes)?
Nevermind I'm playing in wrong. Watching the video again helped.
Glad it got sorted!
Can the Operations Expert build more than one research station per turn without discarding a card with the matching city?
Yes.
Thank you, Rodney!
Hi Rodney! Thanks so much for the video! What if we share knowledge but the player who is receiving the city card already has 7 cards in their hand? Are they not allowed to receive that card?
They can take the new card, but if the player who gets it now has more than 7 cards, they must immediately discard a card or play an Event card.
your video is very useful!
trying to understand the Dispatcher and can't find info about it. this charachter can connect 2 pawns by moving one of them to the location of the other. does it include himself? (moving another pawn to the place where he is located or moving himself to a place where another pawn is located?)
if not, than in a 2 players game he can't use this ability to connect 2 pawns, right? thank you!
It has the ability to move "any" pawn to a location with another pawn, so that could also include itself. Hope that helps - have fun playing!
So on a players turn they do up to 4 actions, draw 2 players cards, then infect cities..
the infect cities part on a players turn is where I am lost.
Does the player just draw 1 infection card and place 1 colored cube that matches to that city at the end of the turn?
Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
it's always nice to know how to play a game before it's shipped to the house
I hope you have a great time playing when it arrives!
@@WatchItPlayed I have just one question. When it comes to taking a card from someone by using the Share knowledge action, does that person need to agree to it?
@@hellraiser338 Hey there, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for.
Hi Rodney, thank you for another great demo. A quick question - do you draw cards on your turn if you already have seven? It is not clear from the rules. Thank you
Yes, you still draw, but then you immediately discard down to 7.
Great - thank you very much for the super-fast response. And thanks for all the super videos
@@ukulelerick8474 You're very welcome!
thanks Rodney, much appreciated this video. Question, the dispatcher can move another player token as if it was his/her own. Does it mean I can use cards to make another player use a charter or a direct flight? Do I use my own cards or the other player cards to do this, please?
You'd use your own. Hope that helps!
Watch It Played cheers :)
Thanks for the video!!!
You're welcome Gene!
Thanks so much. Not enough time in life to learn from the instructions!
I hope you have a fun time playing!
Question, do you draw 2 infection cards after every one gets a turn?
You draw 2 infection cards after “each” turn.
Thank you!
You're very welcome - have a great time playing!
You state in the video, in order to win the game you need to cure all the diseases....but what if you cure 2 and eradicate the other 2 (but no cure for those)? Does this count as a win?
Remember, you can’t eradicate a disease unless you have the cure for it (you can still remove all the cubes from the board, but it is not considered eradicated unless there is a cure for it as well). Hope that helps.
Is it ok to start in other cities than Atlanta? I don't see any problem if I do
It's not what the rules say, and that's what I teach in my videos, but once you own a game, you can play however you like :)
Did a new edition of the board game come out that Pandemic is being covered? No problem with more content obviously, and Pandemic is a great game, just wondering what prompted “old” game coverage. Most of the time you guys cover new games.
He's mentioned recently that he is trying to get more "classic" game How-To's in between newer, more involved games. Both to fill out the library of available videos (he recently did a video for Tick to Ride, as an example) and to also have them available for newcomers to the hobby. These games may be old for us but to those just entering into the hobby, they could be their gateway game.
I haven't had a ton of time of late to watch so I must have missed that, thanks for the update!
Thanks to James for the assist!
Are the players always allowed to tell other players what cards they have, even when playing with cards hidden in their hands?
You'll find this covered here: ruclips.net/video/ojkScPkdgsk/видео.html
How do you end up with different color diseases in cities with different color codes?
Imagine an outbreak in Atlanta - a blue cube would spread to Miami. Hope that helps!
@@WatchItPlayed Yeah, I realized that when that happened yesterday. Lol...Thanks!
Hmm what should i do if i encounter epidemic when drawing starting cards?
Make sure you check the setup instructions of this video, it will show you that that's not possible.
Why does this version of the game have more player roles than season one? I never knew I could reduce the number of epidemic cards in the deck.
You're referring to the Legacy game, right? If so, those are two different games - so they have different content, and had to be balanced for play differently, I assume.
Hopefully you guys can explain to me one thing. When you draw an epidemic and infect a city in its second step, does that automatically trigger an outbreak? That does not seem well explained and my group of newbies is very perplexed. I am a boardgame veteran, but in our Bulgarian translation it's a bit poorly worded.
You did say in the video that it triggers an outbreak, but i just want to be doubly sure.
Please give me a time stamp for the part of the video you are referring to. I am not clear about your question.
It is not as much a problem with the video. My question is when you draw an Epidemic card, on the second step you infect a city from the bottom of the deck. You place up to 3 cubes of the color on it, right? Right. And then if i understood right you create an outbreak from this city? Am i correct in my understanding?
No, you don’t automatically create an outbreak when an episode card is drawn. An Outbreak is triggered only when you would be required to place a 4th cube on a space that already has 3.
I do think it would be easier to discuss this if you would share the point in the video where I explain how an epidemic resolves and then point out the specific time stamp where you’re seeing something you’re unsure of.
10:45 "But then an outbreak occurs". Is this ONLY if the city already had some cubes. Ergo if it didn't have cubes you just place 3?
You’ve got it!
Do we still win if we eradicated all 4 without a cure?
Nope, you need to find the 4 cures - but you don't need to eradicate the 4 diseases to win.
How to get the game on the App Store
I believe it was removed recently. They haven't said why.
What happens if an epidemic card is drawn and the city that is infected has 2 different diseases? does a red city infected with 3 blue disease outbreak 1 blue disease to other red cities?
It's a bit of a complicated question. The main answer to your question is this... A city can hold up to 3 cubes of each color of disease. So if you draw a red card, it will drop red cubes into the red city (even if that city also has 3 blue cubes). But just to clarify... If a blue city with 3 blue cubes was drawn instead and an outbreak occurred which forced a 4th blue cube into the red city, that red city would cause a chain reaction and spill blue cubes out into adjacent areas (even though it's main color is red).
Can this game played solo?
You could play as two characters.
How's Ho Chi Minh City is located somewhere in Malaysia?? (or Phillipines)
The placement of the spaces don't line up perfectly with their actual positions on the globe (also see New York... it's not in the right place on the map either)., but I think this is so they can create enough room for the spaces and lines on the board, and not have things bunched too closely together.
There's red lines that connect from the names to the actual positions on the map. This way it looks correct to me
How does this play with two players?
Hey Christopher, I don't reivew on this channel, as it's too hard to say what our visitors will like or not like in a game - as tastes across games differ quite a bit from one person to the next.
Why is the transcript not in english?
It's auto-generated by RUclips and for awhile there, RUclips didn't always know to default the translation to English (even though all the settings for the video were for English - it was a weird glitch).
Don't forget to wash your hands after touching a pawn or a card.
I mean, the bathroom is only 5 feet away...
No one seems to answer this questions. Do you HAVE to have 7 cards for your turn to end? As in, if you play 5 cards to cure a disease, do you then have to repeat actions and draw 2 cards until you can eventually have 7? Instructions don’t say and neither do any of these videos.
Hey Chandler, the reason this rule book doesn't say you HAVE to have 7 cards at the end of your turn, or that you have to keep drawing until you have 7 cards, is because that isn't a rule. You just draw 2 cards at the end of your turn. Hope that helps!
Watch It Played thanks for the response. I was unsure how to interpret this situation because it gives an example of a turn under hand limit in the instructions that talks about a player drawing 2 cards and that the person is well under their 7 card limit so they continue their turn. So does drawing cards end your turn (in the event you don’t draw an Epidemic card)?
@@chandlerelder After drawing 2 cards, (and resolving any epidemic, if necessary), you then go to the Infection step of your turn. After infecting cities and discarding Infection cards, your turn is over. It's tough to address your comments around the rule book, because I'm not sure exactly what you're looking at - but what you see here in this video is accurate, so hopefully that helps.
How do u get 2 different virus on a city?
When an Oubreak occurs, it can cause a color to spread into a city that normally doesn't get that color of cube.
what happen if player finish all 4 cards
Are you asking what happens if you have no cards in your hand? Nothing special happens, you still draw 2 cards at the end of your turn as usual.
Cool
Aka 2020
Classic co-op game :)
Who's here in March 2020 watching this?
Let's assume, for example, we have an outbreak in Paris...
Russ Foster haha AUGUST
I’m only eight and I think I’m gonna play this with my dad
I hope you have a fun time! Have fun saving the world with your dad!
man I thought we were doing good, we were not chaining the outbreaks...the game just got a lot harder lol
Oh yeah - outbreaks can be brutal :)
My god dude, thank you so much, me and my friends played this game and thought it was so hard, until now that I've watched this video and realized that we were playing it wrong. You earned a subscriber dude, keep up the good work
Great to have you here! Glad it helped :)
Same!
thank you!
You're very welcome Renata - have fun playing!