Editing Pandemic (section)

=== Game play ===

The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a cure, or build a research station. At the end of each players turn they must draw a number of cards from the player deck which can provide useful abilities and the means to cure the diseases but sprinkled throughout this deck are the Epidemic! cards that accelerate and intensify the diseases' activity. A second, separate deck of cards controls the "normal" spread of the infections, which can cause Outbreaks in cities that are sufficiently infected. 

The aim of the game is to cure all four diseases, you do not need to eradicate them (i.e. remove all of that diseases’ cubes from the board). If there are more than seven Outbreaks, the players lose. If you run out of cubes when spreading diseases, the players lose. If there are no more player cards to draw, the players lose. 

Known for its difficulty and decent mechanics as well as generating a tense, exciting experience, Pandemic is a game where the losses are cool stories and the victories are talked up for years.