Eradicating in In-The-Lab is still a good idea. The rules say you can use any cube in place of an eradicated disease cube as samples

The irony of not being able to play Pandemic because of the pandemic.

You brilliantly described the problem more experienced Pandemic gamers have: fight the temptation of becoming leader bully. Knowing the problem exists allows for the leader bully to work to stop themselves from doing it. Great review, as usual!

Just found a first edition Pandemic at goodwill for $3, complete and in great shape! Gona surprise the family with it next weekend with a "too soon?" ☺️

If you want to skip past the Pandemic walk through and go straight to the expansions: 7:37

Hi from future quarantine, march 17, 2020!

This is so crazy to be watching this in late 2020.

Just played this the other week now that we’re allowed people over again in Scotland. Bought it right before lockdown so I could make my family play it during a pandemic. Great game, you’ve got to plan it it well, but sometimes two cities start outbreaking right next to each other and you can’t stop the chain reaction in time.

Listening to this in 2020 sure is something

Right before the pandemic hit in 2020, we had friends over for a game night... What game did we play? Pandemic.

I watched this to decide on buying a board game, but I wound up buying whiskey instead. How dis happen

For me the biggest draw of Pandemic expansions is just making the game harder. Once you get to a certain point you've figured out the best strategy, or at least the best you can come up with, and your win rate doesn't change.

Binge-watching SUSD videos during an actual pandemic, I was honestly stunned to find a board game reviewer making one of my favorite cocktails @_@. Pro-tip, or should I say, obsessive-hobbyist-tip, the penicillin is much better if you ‘float’ the Laphroaig on top of the finished drink using the back of a spoon. The smoky nose that this gives really elevates the experience.

I originally heard the name of the drink as "Hennecillin" the first time he said it and envisioned the maim ingredient being Hennessey, and now I've got a variant to try out.

I love the cocktail tutorial at the end! I’d totally love to see these at the end of each video!

love the review but -10 points for displaying that horrible move at 5:41

Cant play pandemic without in the lab exp now. Makes the game so more thematic and fun

Been watching your videos in reverse order from May 17th 2020 and was looking forward to this one as we're still in a pandemic.

I have found that my groups new to the game are almost as upset by me NOT quarterbacking as when i do.

Always wondered if I should get these. Thank you for the review! Always loved pandemic but after a while it gets a bit too easy

I bought Pandemic and it gives me anxiety waiting for the epidemic card.

I've wanted this game for quite a while and being this deep into an actual pandemic.. well how could I resist further?

I had physical pain from the purple disease sticker being off from the rest.

I like the cocktail bonus tutorial

Can our world leaders play a round of this right now? Please?

I lost Pandemic on the very first turn of my very first game. Drew a lot of black cards for the initial infections, then drew an epidemic on the first turn, another black. Then flipped some blacks and created a chain reaction that used all the black cubes. We’ve played card our entire lives so the decks were heavily shuffled to begin. Just (un)luck of the draw. Had a lot of fun with it since.

Ha!! My friend Sam invented the Penicillin cocktail. Worlds colliding seeing it made in a SUSD review!! 😂😂

The virulent strain and the new roles are really good

My favorite flavor of this game type remains The Captain Is Dead.

Hilarious review of great game AND unexpected cameo of my favourite single malt whiskey 🥃 What is this? Christmas? cheers mate!

10 points for the review but minus 6 for teaching people how to ruin Laphroaig.

I died a little when i saw how the purple sticker was place on the board - Nice video though

FYI Laphroaig 10 is one of the cheaper single malts. It's smokey and peaty as is typical of Islay whiskies, unlike the more popular floral, Highland whiskies such as Glenfidich or Macallan. good choice. it's one of my favorites.

AHHHH, MAATTTTY NO! You never shake a cocktail unless it needs to be an emulsion. Basically, if it doesnt get foamy, dont shake it.

Blimey I'm 5 years too late but I found the way around the leader bully is first game or two let them do as they wish but kind of explain a few things, then as it progresses start explaining more, explaining the status of the board and what is likely to happen and what needs to be done but also realize you are human and failable too and ask if someone sees a better solution. It always works out for the best.

Very nice review and thanks for the cocktail recipe. Laphroaig is my favorite Islay whisky. Looking forward hearing your opinion on the "State of Emergency" expansion as well.

This intro aged well....

Favorite video - maybe even on all of KZfaq!

0:14 2020: I felt that.

I’ve always played with everyone’s cards face up. What’s the point of keeping your hand private when you can communicate what you have anyway?

Still haven't got this. That needs to be rectified.

Ginger wine + whiskey = shortcut ~penicillin

And we're all back here in 2020 ...

This is one of my favorite games of all time.

Laphroaig and Ballentines on the same table? (bloah)

I prefer Pandemic Iberia. I like the theme more, it looks better, and I think the characters are more balanced. The extra modules it comes with just makes it even better!

My observation: the "leader bully" (quarterback or alpha gamer being other terms) is not because Pandemic has a solution, but from the belief that the goal of the game is to win in the most optimal way. This is a bit of Euro-gamer-itis that infects all board games and just doesn't work with real cooperative games. A real cooperative game isn't won by winning the game in the most optimal way, it is won by winning the game as a team. if you are a euro-gamer who must absolutely always play in the most optimal way, or a math teacher who insists that a math problem can only be solved the way you teach, then you are missing the point. I recommend either learning to let go of being such a control freak and having fun, letting yourself being surprised at how different avenues can be used to solve a problem, or go play a euro game instead. Just to emphasize, you're not playing the game wrong or doing it wrong. It just doesn't match your play style if optimal paths to victory is more important than victory as a team. Heck, your optimal move may be proved wrong in the very next card draw. That said, yes there is a skill involved in winning - but too many people think there is a solution to each game and there really isn't. Maybe it will be a more harrowing journey if you "bully leader" the group - but you know what, it just means that you have a much more exciting and tense journey where everyone at the end will feel great about it.

Great episode! I love Pandemic. I know it suffers from Alpha Gamers, but you just have to not play with those types of people or just get them drunk. I'm still trying to buy On the Brink 2nd Edition!!! So sad...Thanks for this episode!

Hi this is the end of 2020, and we're locked down with a mutant strain on the rise

Ahhhh Tiki-Bar TV returns in SUSD

...ironically "le frog" is a single malt whiskey.

love the cocktail recipe!

They need to make a new expansion of cards. Like "antiv-csers riot and refuse to get the life saving vaccine and cause an outbreak" or "random dude-bro refusing to wear a mask at a crowded event causes an outbreak" as events because now we know those things can occur.

6:50 The difference in expertise isnt that big of a deal because I think it only takes like 2-3 games to fully "master" it. You pick up the game awareness and game situation quickly and its not like the skill cap is very high

could you give me the example how to "fly" pilot role works ?

5:41 that was an awful move

People talk about the Simpsons predicting the future but SU&SD are on another level

Sadly, On the Brink is currently out of print.

Laphroaig is a single malt scotch whisky, Scotch is from Scotland... Laphroaig is named after the area of land at the head of Loch Laphroaig on the south coast of the island of Islay. Laphroag is believed to mean the hollow of Broadbay or simply broad bay. In summation, not french or the frog. although whiskey folk often refer to it as the frog just because that's just how it sounds.

Awesome video. I love the original game. I am going to buy the expansions after watching your review

Great review, but my OCD was flaring up at your placement of the sticker for the purple disease ^_^

Mmmm....the 'leader'-role can be tricky, but one must allow others to play their own game. Now, there's nothing wrong with giving advice, but 'as a leader', just be careful not to drive your point home.

I love playing as the Bio Terrorist, a bit easy for me (my family isn't the best at working together). Combined with State of Emergency, the game ended in 15 minutes because of many outbreaks in the animals. My Purples didn't help... 7.5/10

Matt has great hair at the moment. He should never ever cut it. He would look a total fool.

This intro has aged beautifully. No sarcasm. I've been really wamting to play this lately.

its very sad playing this game with your family when you stay at home on quarentine.

This game hits different these days...

Edit: I had posted my comment on the wrong video, and have now posted it on the correct one.

relevant

You guys make me spend too much money

You sound like you could do a great Captain Jack Sparrow impression

No ice in whiskey

Id love to play this game but... Well you know

Is there an expansion that simulates the world purposefully resisting help?

I feel like the governments of the world are playing this game right now 😵 hits close to home...

Can you play pandemic with both exp.. Its possible ;

Dude, any relation to Matt Leacock?

Seems a lot like a sillier, more complicated version of Forbidden Island

You're about two years too soon...

how relevant

frog = grenouille

Havent played this game a ton, but the few times I did I was turned off. The mechanics of losing simply because you ran out of event cards seems like a cop out. The world should feel like it's falling apart at the seams to lose, not just, "oh no. We managed the plague pretty well all things considered but I guess time is out". In Eldrich Horror, they have a similar timer, but instead of just being a losing trigger, it simply amps up the difficulty by bringing the Old God down to the realm. Much more natural and thematic than just "you lose, cuz".

Adrian brody

8:23 unabomber

Who's watching this during the pandemic?

wasted an action at 2:12

Uhh

Pandemic annoyed me because i find the best thing about games to be the fact that you are playing against another person. coop games with no hidden info make pandemic boring for me. a good coop game is the hunt for dracula because you are tying to outsmart one other person and each have some special cards/hidden info

If only this video dropped today

[insert coronavirus joke here] Everybody: Oh how funny and original! I get it because right now we're inside LMAO so funny that's going in my try not to laugh compilation!

Matt can see the future

Well... This is very relevant with the latest plague to hit the earth

The most iresome aspect of Pandemic is that the players start out in Atlanta to save the world. Because the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are seated in Atlanta and were supposed to be the best national agency at battling diseases. In reality most other national services were better prepared and organised, but even in board games you gotta have some American Exceptionalism! *sigh*

Well then... A year early, were we not? Clairvoyance or coincidence... Perhaps some other C-word, I dare say, is appropriate, my good sirs.

Hah.

Matt, Matt, MATT! You seem to be reviewing stuff at an alarming rate! Stop man, you'll burn out!

I always loathed pandemic. Every experience I've had just drains the fun out of the room, as everyone realizes they're just moving cubes about. It's just this old, clunky, unthematic game. But I'm glad to see other people enjoy it though. Someone should. It just can't be me, or anyone I know haha.

Pandemic is the most overrated modern board game... Simple as that... Pandemic legacy season 1 is kinda cool, but as in the standard game, the game can just kill you without you having a slight chance.... I have sold my copy because there are far better cooperative games out there...

Basic pandemic is like next step from Uno, or like cooperative ticket to ride... obvious choises strips game of meaningfull actions and rather makes it a luck of a draw... most disapointing game i ever bought. That sayed, if you think you lack of coop ticket to ride "chalenge" or uno got a bit boring, sure ;) you might just like this game.

Matt can see the future