In Can You Save This Dude, you are a medical scientist on a mission to save the life of a patient infected by a deadly virus. The patient could die if body temperature, pulse, or blood pressure (“BP”) to spike to lethal levels, or if the virus spreads throughout the whole body.
You have at your disposal 3 types of drugs for treating the patient:
Blue drug (represented by blue dice) which directly fights the virus (represented by red dice). But as a side effect, it causes the patient’s body temperature to rise
Green drug (represented by green dice) for managing temperature increase side effect caused by the blue drug.
White drugs (represented by white dice), being basic drugs for stabilizing blood pressure and pulse. Can also be combined into a Mega Drug which can instantly cure patient
There are 2 ways to win the game:
a) Eliminate the virus from the body (by pushing red dice off the bottom of the virus track using blue dice), OR
b)Successfully create a Mega Drug with six white dice in it and instantly cure the patient.
The patient dies and you lose the game when either:
Virus spreads and red dice reaches the “dead face” emoticon on the virus track OR
Temperature, BP or pulse marker rises and reaches the “dead face” emoticon and you are unable to resuscitate the patient
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