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In Pandemic: In the Lab, the second expansion for Pandemic, you will use a new game board that allows you to move the pawns in a laboratory. The goal of this activity is the same as in the base game – finding cures for diseases – but this time in a new way. Behind sealed bio-hazard doors, scientists race against time to sequence diseases, take samples, and test cures.
Pandemic: In the Lab includes four new roles, new Virulent Strain events, and a Worldwide Panic Mutation scenario. Players can compete individually or on rival teams (when playing with four or six players). Can your team work together in the lab to save humanity?
Pandemic: In the Lab requires the base game. Two of the 3 scenarios also require Pandemic: On the Brink to play.
Part of the Pandemic series.
How to Play: Pandemic with All Expansions
- Introduces a new way to manage and discover cures through the lab board.
- Modifies the 'discover a cure' action to be more streamlined.
- Considered the most complex expansion.
- Recommended to be played alone initially due to complexity.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Characterize Disease — Action performed at a research station to assign a disease to a sequence card.
- Discover Cure (modified) — Requires a characterized and tested sequence card, and discarding fewer city cards (3 instead of 5) of the matching color.
- Free Lab Action — One free lab action is granted when a research station is built.
- Lab Board — A separate board for managing disease research and cures.
- Process Sample — Action to move disease cubes between different dishes on the lab board.
- Sample Dishes — Mechanic for collecting disease cubes removed during 'treat disease' actions.
- Sequence Cards — Cards used to track the progress of characterizing and testing diseases for cures.
- Sequence Disease — Action to draw a new sequence card, potentially replacing an existing one.
- Test Cure — Action to remove a disease cube from the board after a sequence card is characterized.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I do not recommend playing pandemic with all of the expansions as it is extremely extremely difficult.
- This is probably the most complex out of the [expansions] so I highly recommend that if you do an expansion you do it with just this and you don't add anything from the others.