When does an outbreak happen?

When a fourth cube would be placed in a city

What does an outbreak do?

Adds a cube to each connected city

What is a chain reaction outbreak?

An outbreak causing outbreaks in neighbors

Pandemic Outbreaks Quiz: Chain Reactions and Epidemic Cards

This pandemic outbreaks quiz watches cubes spill from city to city. Play 10 interactive questions on Matt Leacock's 2008 cooperative game, starting in Atlanta, four diseases, an outbreak when a fourth cube would be placed, chain reactions, losing after eight outbreaks, epidemic cards that increase, infect and intensify, curing with five cards and roles like the Medic.

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

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Who
Who designed Pandemic?
Year
When was Pandemic released?
Coop
How do players win or lose in Pandemic?
Start
In which city do players start?
Out
When does an outbreak happen?
Spread
What does an outbreak do?
Chain
What is a chain reaction outbreak?
Lose
After how many outbreaks do players lose?
Epi
Which three steps do epidemic cards trigger?
Cure
How many same-colored cards are usually needed for a cure?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who designed Pandemic?
Answer: Matt Leacock
Z-Man Games published it.
Q2: When was Pandemic released?
Answer: 2008
It popularized co-op games.
Q3: How do players win or lose in Pandemic?
Answer: Together as a team
It is cooperative.
Q4: In which city do players start?
Answer: Atlanta
Home of the CDC.
Q5: When does an outbreak happen?
Answer: When a fourth cube would be placed in a city
Three cubes is the limit.
Q6: What does an outbreak do?
Answer: Adds a cube to each connected city
Neighbors are infected.
Q7: What is a chain reaction outbreak?
Answer: An outbreak causing outbreaks in neighbors
Disaster can cascade.
Q8: After how many outbreaks do players lose?
Answer: Eight
The outbreak marker tracks them.
Q9: Which three steps do epidemic cards trigger?
Answer: Increase, infect, intensify
The infection rate rises.
Q10: How many same-colored cards are usually needed for a cure?
Answer: Five
The Scientist needs four.

When Cubes Spill Over

Pandemic, designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008, popularized cooperative board games: players win or lose together. They start in Atlanta, home of the CDC, and race to cure four diseases spreading across the world map.

A city can hold three cubes of one disease. If a fourth would be placed, an outbreak happens instead, adding a cube to each connected city. If a neighbor already has three, it outbreaks too, causing a chain reaction. After eight outbreaks, players lose, and they also lose if cubes or player cards run out.

Epidemic cards trigger three steps: increase the infection rate, infect a new city with three cubes and intensify by placing discarded infection cards back on top. Curing usually needs five same-colored cards at a research station, though the Scientist needs four, and the Medic removes cubes quickly.

What This Quiz Teaches

Board game fans will enjoy these questions.

Who designed Pandemic
How outbreaks work
What chain reactions are
What epidemics do
How cures are found

Did You Know?

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