28 May 09
Fivefold Pestilence
Don’t ask us to save the world. We are now 0-5 in games of Pandemic. This is a cooperative game from two to four players who form a team who try to rid the world of four nasty diseases before they do in much of humanity. The game turns out to be very hard to win. In the last game we played we eradicated the disease threatening North America and Europe, but got felled by cascading outbreaks of a second disease in the Middle East. Finally, an unrelated outbreak in Santiago, Chile spelled our doom.
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If you figure out a winning strategy, a cushy job awaits you at the CDC…