Featured Game: Pandemic

I love Pandemic! Unlike many games I've played, Pandemic is cooperative instead of competitive. Two to four people play (or up to five with the expansion) as an elite team working together to stop the spread of multiple infections across the globe. Either we all win, or we all lose, and everyone has special skills they can use to combat diseases.

You might be a Dispatcher, an Operations Expert, a Scientist, a Medic, or a Researcher, and on your turn you must coordinate your actions to stop the spread of disease and search for a cure. But at the end of each turn, the diseases will spread, and may at any time tip off an outbreak or an epidemic. Suddenly, disease spreads faster, and is harder to control. You must use your time wisely to prevent this from happening. The game is usually over in about 45 minutes, and if you haven't discovered the cures for all four diseases, you have lost!

Whenever I play this game, it's tense and fun. Winning is challenging, and the spread of disease is unpredictable. But the sense of accomplishment when you win - and it's always a close one - is fantastic!

Pandemic is easy to learn and fun to play. Come by the Teen Center and ask for it!