{"id":8598,"date":"2020-03-26T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2020-03-26T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:48:23","slug":"pandemic-game-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2020\/pandemic-game-review","title":{"rendered":"Review of Pandemic (The Game)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I bought this award-winning board game<\/strong> about three years ago not guessing how relevant it would become. Now that many of us are sheltering in place from COVID19<\/a><\/strong>, what could be better than a science-based game where the goal is to cooperate in order to defeat life-threatening viruses!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The game is designed to mimic the behavior of contagious diseases<\/strong> which if left unchecked kill thousands of people (sound familiar?). There are several mechanisms to spread germs from one locale to another. Individual cities can become quickly overwhelmed<\/strong> (“outbreaks” in the game’s terminology). Outbreaks add to a “burden of disease<\/strong>” tracker on the side of the board. If you reach the final skull-and-crossbones–it’s game over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The game unfolds quickly by drawing “infection” cards<\/strong> with names of cities onto which you place infection markers<\/strong> (small colored cubes). Several events can occur that will accelerate these infections to the point they become outbreaks<\/strong> (as outlined above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pushing back on this process is the actual game play. Each player has a special role<\/strong> (medic, researcher, etc.) with special abilities. Unlike most games the point is to maximize the benefit for everyone<\/strong>. This leads to discussion and cooperative problem-solving<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pandemic<\/a><\/strong> is appropriate for older children, works best with four players, and takes less than an hour to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this award-winning board game about three years ago not guessing how relevant it would become. Now that many of us are sheltering in place from COVID19, what could be better than a science-based game where the goal is to cooperate in order to defeat life-threatening viruses! The game is designed to mimic the … Continue reading “Review of Pandemic (The Game)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,47,28],"tags":[468,469,467],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-reviews","category-science","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}