I was recently able to acquire a new copy of Pandemic. I felt like my collection had a lot of dicey games full of random outcomes and laughs (which I love) and I wanted something that was a bit more refined, but still had high stakes. Pandemic is a game anyone can get into, and since it's carried in big box stores (so I'm told but I've never seen it) its sales do very well. I enjoy a lot of deterministic games, but I've never hooked on to them as well as I have to things that generate replayability though the game of excessive chance, and I admit I haven't played enough of them enough times to even be part of the jury. That's just me. I'm excited to try Pandemic, though my backlog is hurting at the moment. I just knocked out my first few solo games of Sentinels of the Multiverse and had the great opportunity to play Mag Blast 3rd ed. with some perfect strangers, which was a hoot, but adding this just makes the "get through the backlog" goal that much farther out of reach. It's okay though, because there's always something to play.
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