What causes an outbreak?

Adding a fourth cube of one color to a city

What do epidemic cards do?

Intensify infections and reshuffle infected cities

What do research stations allow?

Discovering cures and fast travel

Pandemic Board Game Quiz: Disease Cubes and Outbreaks

Matt Leacock's cooperative game turns players into a team of disease fighters, and this Pandemic board game quiz covers its rules and history. Play 10 interactive questions on cooperative play, the four colored diseases, disease cubes, outbreaks and chain reactions, epidemic cards, research stations, starting in Atlanta, roles like the Medic and Pandemic Legacy.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Designer
Who designed Pandemic?
Type
What kind of game is Pandemic?
Diseases
How many diseases must players cure?
Cubes
What represent disease in each city?
Outbreak
What causes an outbreak?
Epidemic
What do epidemic cards do?
Start
In which city do players start?
Station
What do research stations allow?
Lose
Which is a way to lose?
Legacy
Which 2015 version permanently changes the game as you play?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who designed Pandemic?
Answer: Matt Leacock
It was published in 2008.
Q2: What kind of game is Pandemic?
Answer: Cooperative
Players win or lose as a team.
Q3: How many diseases must players cure?
Answer: Four
Each has a color.
Q4: What represent disease in each city?
Answer: Colored cubes
Up to three per color per city.
Q5: What causes an outbreak?
Answer: Adding a fourth cube of one color to a city
Disease spreads to neighbors.
Q6: What do epidemic cards do?
Answer: Intensify infections and reshuffle infected cities
They raise the infection rate.
Q7: In which city do players start?
Answer: Atlanta
It hosts the CDC.
Q8: What do research stations allow?
Answer: Discovering cures and fast travel
Atlanta starts with one.
Q9: Which is a way to lose?
Answer: Reaching eight outbreaks
Running out of cards also loses.
Q10: Which 2015 version permanently changes the game as you play?
Answer: Pandemic Legacy
It topped BoardGameGeek's rankings.

Pandemic Board Game Quiz – Disease Cubes and Outbreaks

Pandemic, designed by Matt Leacock and published in 2008, is a cooperative board game in which players work together to cure four diseases before they spread across the world. Everyone wins or loses as a team.

Colored cubes show disease in cities. Adding a fourth cube of one color triggers an outbreak, spreading disease to neighboring cities and possibly causing chain reactions. Epidemic cards raise the infection rate and bring infected cities back to the top of the deck.

Players start in Atlanta, home of the CDC, and build research stations to discover cures. Roles such as the Medic and Scientist give special powers. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, from 2015, permanently changes the game and topped BoardGameGeek's rankings.

What This Quiz Teaches

Board game fans will enjoy these questions.

Who designed Pandemic
How cooperation works
How diseases spread
How players win or lose
Which versions exist

Did You Know?

The board shows 48 cities.
Players need five matching cards for a cure in most roles.
Difficulty changes with the number of epidemic cards.
Expansions add new roles and challenges.
Sales jumped in 2020.