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If you want to spice up your collection of board game classics, thecooperative gamePandemic might be for you.

The game consists of cards and squares you use to label places with epidemics, outbreaks and spreading pandemics.

There are multiple roles, including a scientist and quarantine specialist that help control these new diseases.

Though the topic sounds grim, the game manages to make public health fun.

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