Pandemic: Isolation Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Required for Play
• Setup
• Play

Required for Play

• Pandemic, the Board Game
• 4 coins

Setup

Put a coin each on San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and São Paulo to mark that those cities are under complete lockdown. Players may not enter those cities during the course of the game and disease cubes are never placed there. Take the Infection cards for those cities and put them in the box. They will not be used during the game. The Player cards for those cities remain in play but cannot be used for Direct or Charter flights.

Place the cubes on the board as follows:

1. Place 3 yellow cubes in Kinshasa.
2. Place 2 yellow cubes in each of the following cities: Lagos, Khartoum, and Johannesburg.
3. Place 3 red cubes in each of the following cities: Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City.
4. Place 1 blue cube in each of the following cities: Washington, Montreal, and Chicago.

There are no black cubes in the initial setup but they are still in play.

Place the corresponding Infection cards (for all of the above cities) in the Infection Discard pile, then shuffle and form an Infection Draw pile using the rest of the Infection cards normally. The sheet lists these cities beside its Infection card illustration: Kinshasa, Lagos, Khartoum, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Washington, Montreal, and Chicago.

Hand the following Player cards out to the players:

• Player 1: Researcher—Chennai, Algiers
• Player 2: Scientist—Resilient Population, Kolkata
• Player 3: Dispatcher—Airlift, Riyadh
• Player 4: Contingency Planner—Kinshasa, Santiago

Put the 4 player pawns and 1 research station in Atlanta as usual.

Prepare the Player Deck with the remaining cards using the standard setup rules.

Play

Play the game starting with the Researcher (in the order described above) using all the normal rules, except that players may not enter the cities under lockdown.

Good luck.