Q 01/05

Pandemic's designer turned to co-operative games after winning a sour game of Chinatown against whom?

A) His wife

B) His boss

C) His brother

D) His publisher

Answer · why

A) His wife

His wife, Donna, and he came away from that negotiation game on bad terms even though he had won, so in 2004 he began designing a game the two of them...

Q 02/05

Which company first published Pandemic in 2008?

A) Fantasy Flight

B) Z-Man Games

C) Days of Wonder

D) Rio Grande Games

Answer · why

B) Z-Man Games

Z-Man Games has stayed its publisher through every expansion, spin-off and Legacy season, as one 2008 box grew into a franchise that had sold more tha...

Q 03/05

On the Pandemic board, a line running off the Pacific edge connects Sydney directly to which city?

A) Tokyo

B) Los Angeles

C) Santiago

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

B) Los Angeles

Los Angeles and Sydney count as neighbours because routes that leave one edge of the map wrap around to the other, so a pawn can cross the whole Pacif...

Q 04/05

What happens once Pandemic's fourth cure is found?

A) Players win

B) Final round begins

C) Outbreaks reset

D) Epidemics stop

Answer · why

A) Players win

The players win on the spot, however many cubes are still on the board: the rules say outright that treating every city, or wiping a disease out compl...

Q 05/05

Which Pandemic action lets a player discard the card of their current city to fly anywhere on the board?

A) Direct Flight

B) Charter Flight

C) Shuttle Flight

D) Airlift

Answer · why

B) Charter Flight

Charter Flight costs the card of the city you are standing in, the very card needed to build a research station there, so every charter gives up a pos...