Expansion for Pandemic. Alters how to cure diseases.
Adds roles as well as events, plus team along with solo play. 1-6 Players | 45+ Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Action Points, Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tags, Team-Based Game, Trading, Variable Player Powers Theme: Expansion for Base-game, Environmental, Medical, Science Fiction Description: Race against time to sequence diseases and test cures in this Pandemic expansion.
New medical technology has been developed that will help treat the infectious diseases spreading across the globe. The In the Lab expansion for Pandemic adds more variety and challenge to your mission of containing deadly disease outbreaks.
This time, there's a whole new way to discover cures and get closer to winning the game. Travel around the board collecting samples of each disease in the field, then use the Lab board to sequence, characterize, and test your cures.
Add sample cubes to one of the two lab dishes by taking the Treat Disease action. Once enough samples are collected, seal yourself behind bio-hazard doors along with send the samples through the centrifuge and separator to place them on sequence cards in the correct order.
If you can get a disease characterized as well as sequenced, you're ready to find a cure! In addition to the Lab Challenge, In the Lab offers two variants that shake up the Pandemic experience.
Now you can take on the diseases by yourself in a solo game or split into two rival teams and race to cure as well as eradicate diseases, prevent outbreaks, as well as gain prestige. Other than a little help from the CDC, you're on your own in the solo game.
Stay in contact with your home base and discover the cures before it's too late. If you break into rival teams, curing diseases is still the ultimate goal, but the prestige you've earned over the course of the game determines the winner.
Along including its four new Role cards, three new Event cards, as well as challenges you can combine featuring those in the On the Brink expansion, In the Lab creates a whole new world of possibilities for Pandemic. Contents: Rulebook 1 Lab Board 4 New Role Cards (with Matching Pawns) 3 New Event Cards 5 Cure Vials 14 Sequence Cards 2 Revised Role Cards including Lab Abilities 5 Lab Actions Reference Cards CDC Card 3 Team Research Stations 14 Awards 8 Goal Cards 10 Bonus Cards 2 Virulent Strain Epidemic Cards 12 Purple Disease Cards 2 Mutation Worldwide Panic Cards This product is an expansion, Pandemic base game and On the Brink Expansion are required to play.
Awards & Honors: 2013 Golden Geek Best Board Game Expansion Nominee 2013 Board Game Quest Awards Best Game Expansion Nominee Vendor: Asmodee
