Pandemic

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Pandemic: The Game

Welcome to Pandemic: The Game! These are the rules you can choose to follow. If you don't, go straight to jail. This game is the official follow up to Avian Flu and SARS.

Game Setup

Game set up.

This game is played with a six-sided dice and $1000 play money, which will be called bills, at the beginning of the game for each player. To make things interesting, the phases are numbered in reverse order. This game should only be played by players who are 21 years or older or who have been trained in gun safety and who are over 18 or have parental permission. All game instructions should be read before beginning play.

At the beginning of the game, each player decides whether they decide (1) to wear a mask or not, (2) whether to disinfect surfaces or not, and (3) whether to practice social distancing or not, (4) Whether they prefer large gatherings or whether they prefer to do their own thing alone, and (4) whether their location has reopened business as usual or not, and (5) Whether they are a business owner.

If the player has chosen to be a business owner, if the state is reopened, they start with 1200 bills.

Phase Four: Contagion

Contagion!

If the player has chosen that business not be open as usual, the player returns $200 bills to the bank, representing temporarily lost income, in the form of investments, business income or wages.

Then, based on these player decisions, the player rolls the dice. The number of times the player must roll the dice depends on their answers to the above. If you decided not to wear a mask, not to practice social distancing, prefer large gatherings, and business has reopened, you must roll the dice seven times. If you have made any other choice on any of these, the number of dice rolls is reduced by the number of choices you made to reduce the chances of infection. If you roll a one on any of these rolls, Congratulations: you are infected.

If you are infected and your state was reopened, you must pay 100 bills representing unemployment, lost wages, the cost of delivery service or temporary inability to run your business because you are housebound. If another player is willing to be infected, an infected player may keep their 100 bills. Once a player has either completed infection or rolled the required number of dice rolls without being infected, the dice is passed to the next player.

Phase Three: Infection

Sedentary lifestyle.

If you have been infected, you advance to Phase three. You must roll the dice one time, plus once more for each one of the following risk factors you have:

• An immune disorder.
• Asthma or respiratory disorders (such as COPD)
• Age over 55 years with a sedentary lifestyle.
• Heart disease or condition.
• Diabetes.
• Morbid obesity.
• Age over 65 years.
• Age over 75 years.

If you roll a one on any of these dice rolls, congratulations, you are Hospitalized! You can now proceed to Phase two.

Phase Two: Hospitalization

Russian Roulette.

Upon achieving hospitalization, a revolver is now put into play. A game of Russian roulette begins for players who have achieved hospitalization. A ten chamber revolver is used for this stage. If you chose that your state be reopened, you must play two rounds of Russian roulette, representing a scarcity of hospital beds and staff. If you chose that your state remain closed or limited, you need only play one round of Russian roulette, representing a reasonable amount of hospital beds and staff. Once you complete your Russian roulette, you proceed to phase one. All business owners must pay 20 bills back to the bank for each player hospitalized, representing temporarily lost business while the person who was hospitalized is paying off their hospital bills. If you do not have a revolver handy, or are squeamish about blood, simply tape a piece of paper labelled "BANG" to one side of the dice.

Phase One

There are two ways to reach phase one. the first one is to survive the Russian roulette and enter Quarantine. If you are in quarantine, and your risk factor was that you were over 65 and/or over 75, you receive 200 bills, representing retirement income. Otherwise, you lose 100 bills representing unemployment or temporary inability to run your business in person. You must pay everything else except 50 bills to the hospital. The second way is to not survive the Russian roulette. If you do not survive, well, You are Dead. A random player at the table becomes your "heir", and takes the rest of your play money. They must pay all except 50 bills to the hospital, and the rest to the funeral home. All business owners lose 100 bills for each player who is dead, representing permanently lost business from the dead players. Business owners gain 100 bills for each player who remains uninfected at the end of the game or reaches quarantine. The game ends when someone is either quarantined or dead and all funds have been accounted for. The one with the most bills at the end of the game wins. I hope someone brought the flowers and funeral music!

Other Rule Options

Pandemic the Game can also be used with alternate rulesets.

Delta rules

The Delta rules are played as follows: Players have the option to get a vaccine card at the beginning of the game, and one lottery scratch ticket is purchased at the beginning of the game. All players also have the choice whether (1) They are a business owner, (2) They wear masks, (3) They practice social distancing, (4) They accept a vaccine card, and (5) Whether they will choose to work for an employer who admits customers without masks or without vaccine cards. At the beginning of the game, all businesses are also reopened, and surfaces are disinfected, but business owners have the choice whether to allow customers in their business without masks, or without vaccine cards. Business owners start the game with 1100 bills. If business owners choose two allow customers without masks, they get another 100 bills, and if they allow customers without vaccine cards, they get another 100 bills, representing increased business from these customers. They lose 10 bills for each player who chooses not to work for any employer who admits customers without masks or without vaccine cards, representing increased recruiting costs.

• Phase Four (Contagion): Non-business owners who have not chosen to wear masks lose 100 bills if no business owners chose to admit customers without masks, representing lost employment. They lose an additional 100 bills if they do not have a vaccine card and no business owners admit customers without vaccine cards. Those with vaccine cards will roll the dice 5 times in the Phase 4 Contagion stage. Those without vaccine cards may also choose to obtain a vaccine card in Phase Four. No other players are permitted to accept the status "Infected" on behalf of another player. If all five dice are a 5, players with vaccine cards will proceed to Phase 3, the infection stage (Player status "Infected").

• Phase 3 (Infection): Other players without vaccine cards must roll the dice once each for the following risk factors: (1) Any business owners in the group who allow customers with masks, (2) any business owners in the group allow customers without vaccine cards, (3) whether the player practices social distancing, (4) whether the player wears a mask, (5)Whether more than half the other players have vaccine cards, (6)Whether they have decided to work for any employer who admits customers without masks or vaccine cards, (7) Whether they are a business owner who has decided to admit customers without masks, and (8) Whether they are a business owner who has decided to admit customers without vaccine cards. Players without vaccine cards must roll the dice one time for each risk factor to determine whether they proceed to Phase Two with "Hospitalized" status. If a one is rolled on any of these rolls, the player status is set to "Hospitalized", and they proceed to Phase Two. Otherwise, the player status is set to "Recovered".

• Phase 2 (Hospitalization): In Phase Two, those with vaccine cards can use their vaccine card as a "get out of jail free", or in this case, "get out of hospital free" card, and their status is set to "Recovered". The first player with a vaccine card who reaches Phase Two scratches off the lottery card. If the scratch ticket is a winner, the player with the vaccine card proceeds to the hospitalization stage.

• In Phase One, The "Quarantined" player status is replaced by "Recovered" player status. Players with Vaccine cards will automatically receive status "Recovered". Alternatively, another lottery ticket can be purchased to determine whether the vaccinated hospitalized patient lives or dies. If the ticket is a winner, the vaccinated hospitalized patient dies. Other players will play according to the Basic rules above. The Delta game is ended when all players either have vaccine cards, status "Death", or status "Recovered".